Community Health Worker

Winnebago Comprehensive Healthcare System•Winnebago, NE

15d

About The Position

The Community Health Worker provides culturally responsive outreach, education, care coordination, and support services for community members needing kidney health support. The role bridges community members, healthcare providers, and community resources to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities. The position is funded by the RHT. The worker conducts home visits and community outreach, supports medication needs and translation, provides transportation, and offers supervised home health support such as blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring. The role includes educating clients on medication and healthy lifestyles, identifying and referring clients to resources, following up with at-risk community members and after healthcare visits, assisting with screenings, and maintaining accurate client records and reports. In the Kidney Protection specialty area, the worker supports high-risk individuals and families through culturally grounded kidney-health education, wellness check-ins, participant recruitment and retention, appointment coordination, transportation, medication adherence support, referrals, and follow-up after hospitalizations and other health events. The worker also supports family education, cultural activities, community outreach, multidisciplinary care, and program evaluation while promoting trauma-informed, family-centered, strengths-based care and Indigenous kinship-based practices. Applicants must comply with required criminal-record declarations and background checks. WCHS is an equal opportunity employer, participates in E-Verify, and provides preference to qualified Native American and Veteran applicants as described in the posting.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED.
Valid driver's license and ability to meet driver eligibility guidelines.
Must be in good physical and mental health and pass a complete physical exam, including PPD, before employment.
Basic knowledge of MS Office computer software.
Ability to maintain accurate written, daily, weekly, and monthly reports.
Ability to maintain strict confidentiality when handling sensitive information.
Must have and maintain CPR/BLS certification or obtain it within six months of hiring.
Ability to read, write, and speak English fluently and use professional verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to lift up to 75 pounds and regularly walk, stand, and sit for extended periods; use a computer keyboard, phone, office equipment, and GSA vehicles.
Reading, writing, calculating, reasoning and analysis skills, and above-average social interaction skills.
Ability to work with minimal to no supervision.
Must attend department meetings, training courses, and certification courses as required by the position and CHW Coordinator.
Must sign the required pre-employment declaration regarding arrests and convictions of child abuse or violent felonies and comply with applicable criminal-record check requirements.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate the Public Health Department's core mission, vision, and values.
Conduct scheduled home visits and community outreach with assigned clients and high-risk individuals.
Assist clients with medication needs and translation.
Provide transportation to healthcare appointments, programs, classes, support groups, and approved community activities.
Provide supervised home health care, including blood pressure and blood glucose monitoring, medication education, and healthy-lifestyle education.
Refer clients to resources addressing Indigenous Social Determinants of Health and other identified needs.
Follow up with at-risk community members and notify patients of scheduled doctor appointments.
Follow up on internal staff and provider appointments, and conduct post-hospitalization, emergency department, delivery, postpartum, and infant-health follow-up visits or calls.
Assist with infectious disease screening, other screening activities, and referrals.
Support kidney-health outreach, recruitment, enrollment, and retention in Cakso Wirakara ra, Kidney Protection programs.
Provide culturally grounded kidney-health education following the American Kidney Foundation curriculum.
Conduct wellness check-ins with people with kidney disease or at risk of kidney disease, identify needs, and connect families with resources.
Support medication management, including reminders, prenatal vitamin education, adherence support, and identification of barriers to obtaining prescriptions.
Coordinate referrals to healthcare providers, behavioral health services, social services, early intervention, home visiting programs, and community resources.
Support family education, group classes, cultural activities, and community outreach events; encourage involvement of extended family, caregivers, and support networks.
Maintain GSA vehicles and complete timely, accurate charting, client records, encounter notes, and monthly reports.
Participate in multidisciplinary care team meetings, case reviews, quality improvement, program evaluation, department meetings, training, and certification courses.
Maintain strict confidentiality and promote culturally grounded, trauma-informed, family-centered, strengths-based approaches to care.
Apply public health competencies, including ethical data practices, communication and cultural competency, leadership, systems thinking, and contribution to continuous improvement.