Community Health Worker - Blackstone Valley Tech 35 hours, Days

About the role

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Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $18.24 - $32.82

(based on a full time schedule of 40 hours per week).

Please note that the final offer will vary based on scheduled hours. Compensation for part-time or reduced schedules will be prorated based on scheduled weekly hours, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

• Schedule Details: Monday through Friday
• Scheduled Hours: 7:30 am - 2:30pm
• Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)
• Hours: 35
• Cost Center: 26000 - 5848 School Based Health Grant

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Provides culturally-sensitive health education, information, referrals and/or outreach to patients and their families and advocates for individual and community needs to improve health outcomes. Facilitates access to resources and/or provides direct services, such as informal counseling, social support, care coordination and health assessments.

I. Major Responsibilities

• Acts as a liaison between the patients/families, clinical practice and community agencies and referral services. Remains a partner and source of contact for a family system until it connects with the appropriate services or until the family declines follow-up.
• Under general supervision, provides education, resources and/or referrals to patients and families.
• Advocates for patients and families in the clinic and community. Works in partnership with other service providers in the central Massachusetts community. Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with others including but not limited to staff, administrators, partnering agencies, elected officials, government agencies, businesses, customers, and the public.
• Meets regularly with the care team to review cases, identify next steps and priorities, and plan feedback to providers and community partners.
• Provides referrals and connects patients/families to community resources to help them overcome social problems and barriers.
• Demonstrates respect for individuals and groups with varied cultural, racial, ethnic, religious, and linguistic identities or backgrounds. Demonstrates understanding of human rights and principles of social justice.
• Plans and organizes work, preparing adequate records and reports, setting priorities, and maintaining a caseload in an effective and timely manner. Documents according to clinic policy and project requirements. Maintains records, reports, and statistics as required.

II. Position Qualifications

Required

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Reliable transportation with a valid MA Driver’s license.

Preferred

• CHW certification or coursework.

Required

• Experience working with diverse populations.
• Familiarity with local community.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, and to function as part of a larger team.
• Understanding of how language, culture and socioeconomic circumstances affect health.
• Desire to work with diverse, multi-cultural and multi-lingual populations.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (i.e. MS Word, Excel, Access, Outlook) and web browsers.
• Proficiency with data entry and data tracking.
• Familiarity or experience with health promotion, health education, and/or healthcare terminology

Preferred

• Fluency in one of the languages most spoken by UMMH patients (Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Albanian, Arabic, and Vietnamese)
• One year of experience in a clinical office or community outreach setting.

Additional information

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies, including age-specific competencies and their measurements, will be developed and maintained in the individual departments. The competencies will be maintained and attached to the departmental job description. Responsible managers will review competencies with position incumbents.

Position will be located at Blackstone Valley Technical School. Hours will follow school schedule.

The Community Health Worker will be a resource to students and assist in care coordination for health related social needs.

We’re striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

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