Community Health Worker Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Experience with direct service provision, preferably in a healthcare or social service setting working with individuals with a variety of needs including behavioral health and substance use issues
• A passion for working within the community you are a part of, or have been a part of in the past.
• Flexibility, team-orientation, and willingness to wear different hats
• Ability to effectively and independently plan, organize, and coordinate access to health services.
• Excellent communication skills, including writing, listening and organizing information
• Empathy and human interactions, and a desire to improve the health of individuals and communities.
• Comfort working with people who are in distress and who may be experiencing a range of challenges and difficulties in their lives and living circumstances
• Independent self-starter and a strategic thinker who is eager to learn, improve, and grow.
• Experience or the capacity to use computer-based tools including typing, web-based applications and client-related databases
• Excitement about how technology can support your work and help drive the ongoing evaluation toward new, better, care.
• Unrestricted Driver’s License

Responsibilities

• Promote and work to achieve our mission and vision to connect with and care for our community so everyone may enjoy health and wellness.
• Work as part of the Community Health Team, in collaboration with primary care, behavioral health and substance use treatment teams
• Reach out to individuals following a psychosocial assessment; foster relationships as the face of North Star Health and key point-of-contact to assist individuals in achieving goals, identifying needs, and coordinating services.
• Conduct follow-up assessments and engage individuals through motivational interviewing to identify priority needs and areas for intervention or follow up
• Identify next steps to address findings including referral to an appropriate level of care either with North Star Health or an external service provider
• Provide brief interventions as appropriate to address screening results, either directly or through referral
• Outreach to both organizations and individuals, including meeting individuals in their home and going to a variety of service locations;
• Assist in coordinating care for individuals, identifying and addressing their barriers to and social influences on good health; assist in patient enrollment, schedule appointments, assist with transportation, and follow up on care delivery.
• Collaborate with local health and social service organizations to assist them in enhancing services and addressing systemic barriers to health and social services.
• Documents all patient encounters; complete required reports; maintain electronic patient files, including referrals, releases, assessments and other documents acquired on behalf of the patient.
• Support fellow team members in answering phones and addressing patient requests and other tasks as needed.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision coverage
• a 401(k) with company match
• generous paid time off
• engaging wellness programs