Senior Community Health Worker

St. Joseph's Health•Paterson, NJ

About The Position

The Community Health Worker (CHW) is a member of the community trained to work with clients to provide advocacy, education and direct connections to clinical and social supports as well as build community capacity. The worker should be someone knowledgeable of the community culture and languages spoken with a goal of providing accurate health and wellness based information as well as connection to social service community-based organizations in an effort to reduce identified disparities and improve health outcomes. The CHW ensures accurate and updated information is provided to clients and works to directly connect individuals to community services and resources. CHW works in partnership with the HCPC team to promote and recruit clients and coordinate care using evidence-based care coordination model and HCPC workflows. Client recruitment may occur through clinical partners, community-based organizations, faith based organizations, and at attending public community outreach events. CHW provides advocacy and coordination for clients to clinical and non-clinical service providers, conducts client home visits and assessments, identifies clients’ needs and priorities, coordinates transportation and access to basic needs, confirms attendance at clinical visits, and may accompany clients to appointments as appropriate. The client specific plan for the CHW is developed in conjunction with referrals and based on evidenced base practices. St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”. St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures. The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics. The nursing team at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.

Responsibilities

Provide advocacy
Provide education
Provide direct connections to clinical and social supports
Build community capacity
Provide accurate health and wellness based information
Connect to social service community-based organizations
Reduce identified disparities
Improve health outcomes
Ensure accurate and updated information is provided to clients
Directly connect individuals to community services and resources
Promote and recruit clients
Coordinate care using evidence-based care coordination model and HCPC workflows
Provide advocacy and coordination for clients to clinical and non-clinical service providers
Conduct client home visits and assessments
Identify clients’ needs and priorities
Coordinate transportation and access to basic needs
Confirm attendance at clinical visits
Accompany clients to appointments as appropriate