Volunteer AmeriCorps Patient Health Navigator

Sea Mar Community Health Centers•Burien, WA

3d•$850•Onsite

About The Position

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, dedicated to providing comprehensive health, human, housing, educational, and cultural services to diverse communities, with a specialization in serving Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar serves all individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, sexual orientation, or ability to pay. The organization operates over 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics, along with various nutritional, social, and educational services. 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. The Patient Health Navigator program aims to assist patients in accessing appropriate care, establishing a medical home, ensuring pre- and post-visit needs are met, and facilitating health education. Navigators also provide translation/interpretation services as needed, and their duties are customized to the host clinic's specific needs.

Requirements

Full-time volunteer position with a modest living allowance stipend.
1,700 hours of service ending August 2027 (or prorated for less hours).
Bilingual Spanish Strongly Preferred.
Reliable Transportation required.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual Spanish

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 for Sea Mar sites, including posters, promotional programs, healthy diet and recipes, exercise information, handouts, and resource binders.
Create a community resource guide to share with patients and the AmeriCorps-Sea Mar group.
Review electronic health record charts and patient lists to identify patients in need of important health screenings and services, and schedule appropriate appointments.
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 to identify patients needing screenings, inform care teams about preventative care, and reach out to 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, including community outreach, health interventions, and health events related to topics such as smoking cessation, diabetes education, nutrition, 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 and participating in events.
Assist in the development and distribution of informational/promotional materials.
Establish and maintain referral relationships with local organizations, agencies, institutions, and businesses as directed by the AmeriCorps Department.