Volunteer AmeriCorps Patient Health Navigator

Sea Mar Community Health Centers•Monroe, LA

1d•$850•Onsite

About The Position

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is seeking a Volunteer AmeriCorps Patient Health Navigator. This is a full-time volunteer position with a modest living allowance stipend, not a full-time job. AmeriCorps members receive a prorated stipend over their service term and an education award upon successful completion. Patient Navigators assist patients in accessing care, establishing a medical home, ensuring pre- and post-visit needs are met, and facilitating health education. They also provide translation/interpretation services and create informational materials. Duties are customized to the host clinic's needs.

Requirements

Bilingual Spanish Strongly Preferred.
Reliable Transportation required.

Responsibilities

Schedule appointments and navigate patients through health system barriers.
Initiate communication with patients and assist with support in making referrals to address the full spectrum of patient needs.
Participate in mandatory trainings, service projects and team building activities throughout their 10-11 month full time term of service.
Create informational materials and available resources to have at Sea Mar sites. These include posters, promotional programs, healthy diet and recipes, exercise information, handouts/take-away, as well as resource binders that provide information about available Sea Mar and community resources.
Create a community resource guide to share with patients and the AmeriCorps-Sea Mar group.
Review electronic health record charts and patient’s lists to identify patients in need of important health screenings and services. Schedules appropriate appointments according to patient needs.
Prepare mail outs with appropriate materials and patient identifier information.
Collaborate with Sea Mar medical clinic staff, quality improvement staff, and other Sea Mar departments as needed to identify patients in need of screenings, to inform care teams about preventative care, and to reach out to these identified patients.
Work with Sea Mar staff to roll-out additional preventive health screening and recall efforts to patients.
Participate in an AmeriCorps site health project. This includes community outreach, health interventions, and health events regarding, but not limited to, the following health topics: smoking cessation, diabetes education, nutrition, and healthy lifestyles, stress reduction, managing chronic conditions, and adolescent topics.
Pro-actively aid in increasing public awareness regarding health coverage enrollment opportunities by planning and conducting outreach activities within the community, participating at both Sea Mar sponsored and non-Sea Mar sponsored events.
Assist in the development and distribution of informational/promotional materials, and establishes and maintains referral relationships with local organizations, agencies, institutions and businesses as directed by the AmeriCorps Department.