Community Healthcare Worker, Healthy in the City
About The Position
This position serves as a Case Manager for the Children's Hospital Healthy in the City program and provides families with the tools and resources needed to live healthy and active lives. The Case Manager helps children and their families set goals and participate in fitness and nutrition activities. This role is located in Dorchester, MA. There is free parking available. The anticipated schedule is 8:30am-5pm, and will be able to work one day a week remotely once fully trained. Under the direction of a manager or supervising social worker, the Community Healthcare Worker conducts resource assessments and collaborates with social work and/or medical staff to obtain community resources for community health center patients and families. Within developed area of expertise, provides orientation and ongoing training related to community resources to staff, medical providers, patients and families.
Requirements
- High School diploma or GED required.
- 1-3 years related work experience required.
- Minimum 2 years of related work experience without a related Associate's degree
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience with computer systems required, including web based applications and some Microsoft Office applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access.
- Ability to comprehend and converse in English to communicate effectively with medical center staff, patients, families and external customers.
- Ability to demonstrate full working knowledge of standard concepts, practices, procedures and policies with the ability to use them in varied situations.
- Ability to work collaboratively in small teams to improve the operations of immediate work group by offering ideas, identifying issues, and respecting team members.
- Ability to provide a high level of customer service to patients, visitors, staff and external customers in a professional, service-oriented, respectful manner using skills in active listening and problem solving.
- Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
- Employees in this job must be competent to provide patient care to the following age groups: Youth: 6 months to 16 years, Young adult: 16-30 years, Middle Age: 30 - 60 years, Elderly: 60 -.
Nice To Haves
- Associate's degree preferred in Human Services field.
- Bilingual in English and Spanish and/or Cape Verdean Creole.
Responsibilities
- Determines, independently or in collaboration with other staff, the resources that will optimally meet patients' and families' needs.
- Develops a multifaceted service plan to meet complex patients' needs.
- Acts as case manager to coordinate care with medical providers.
- Makes independent decisions about services to recommend to a patient/family and how to teach them to become self-reliant.
- Maintains a caseload with many patient contacts per day including phone calls, paperwork and face to face contacts.
- Provides timely and appropriate documentation in the online medical record.
- As part of the patient centered medical home, takes part in team meetings to coordinate care with medical and mental health providers.
- Advocates on the patient's behalf in written and verbal communications.
- Assists patients with such tasks as accessing entitlement programs and provides such information as requested by outside facilities who are helping the patient.
- Documents and advises supervisor and clinical staff of obstacles to obtaining services and potential ways to manage them.
- Develops liaisons with community and state agencies to facilitate negotiation of complex systems.
- Visits relevant agencies to broaden knowledge and relationships.
- Makes home visits as needed and appropriate.
- Masters specific areas of expertise such as domestic violence, childhood trauma, fitness or HIV and family planning.
Benefits
- Free parking available.
- The pay range listed for this position is the base hourly wage range the organization reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for this position at this time. Actual compensation is determined based on several factors, that may include seniority, education, training, relevant experience, relevant certifications, geography of work location, job responsibilities, or other applicable factors permissible by law. Compensation may exceed the base hourly rate depending on shift differentials, call pay, premium pay, overtime pay, and other additional pay practices, as applicable to the position and in accordance with the law.
- Vaccinated against influenza (flu) as a condition of employment.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
