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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Human Services
occupation category
Community Health Workers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Engages with individuals about their physical or behavioral health to recognize conditions, access care, and participate fully in prevention and care plans
- Assists individuals in building and expanding their personal capacity to identify and manage their health conditions
- Facilitates communication and client empowerment in interactions with healthcare/social service systems
- Identifies and informs people and systems about community assets and challenges
- Provides non-clinical health assessments, advising, service coordination planning and client-centered counseling
- Builds individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through activities such as outreach, education, informal counseling and social support
- Commits to professional and ethical behavior to ensure you and your clients are healthy and safe
- Prevents, treats, and heals trauma, including understanding the impact of trauma on clients, and the community
- Provides referrals and follow-up support to ensure that services are obtained
- Collects, interprets data, shares results and findings, and engages stakeholders to take action on findings
- Identifies opportunities to help others, and represents their needs through communication and advocacy
- Improves patient health by addressing non-medical issues that can influence people's ability to get or stay healthy
- Engages community members as research partners, including community consent processes
- Teaches self-awareness and stress prevention and management to patients
- Supports patients to use more appropriate healthcare services thereby improving health outcomes and saving money
- Collects and distributes materials that meet basic needs (e.g. provides food, blankets, clothing to those in need)
- Provides basic health support services (e.g. first aid, diabetic foot checks)
- Delivers health education presentations to school children and their parents and teachers
- Develops behavioral change objectives and educational interventions as needed for different populations
- Helps clients set goals and develop a care plan to achieve those goals
- Assists communities in building capacity by identifying resources and coordinating services
- Provides post-discharge activities from hospital facilities
- Analyzes health issues and inequalities from public health and cultural perspectives
- Improves access to oral health services and quality of delivery for clients
- Supports clients with self-management skills to control chronic conditions and improve health outcomes
- Evaluates healthcare delivery systems, including eligibility and community resources to provide appropriate linkage services to clients
- Supports clients to complete applications to access health benefits
- Conducts educational sessions at community sites and to various cultural groups to meet the cultural and linguistic needs of target populations
- Supports clients to strengthen their social support networks to build and keep healthy new habits
- Provides support during pregnancy and for patients with chronic diseases
- Develops evaluation/research design and methods
- Supports service providers, link groups or systems that provide synergistic support, and implements advocacy strategies to address unmet needs
- Supports clients with mental health and substance abuse challenge to engage with mental health and substance use treatments
- Develops health education curriculum using participatory methods and learners' experiences to guide the content of the curriculum
- Assesses health education needs in the communities
- Conducts, reports, and communicates results and implications of basic screening tests (height, weight, blood pressure, glucose level, etc.)
- Visits homes to check on individuals with specific health conditions
- Serves as a liaison between medical and social services and the community, advocating for change and improving access to quality of care
- Provides direct services, such as informal counseling, social support, care coordination and health screenings
- Helps clients understand their health conditions and develops strategies to improve their health and well being
- Develops goals, objectives, and strategies for programs
- Builds relationships and learns about the lives of clients, the resources and needs of their communities, and the barriers to optimum health
- Connects individuals to health and human service resources, such as health insurance, food, housing and other health information
- Conducts home visits or meets with individuals outside of the clinical setting to provide services
- Designs, implements and interprets individual and community-level assessments (e.g. home environmental assessment; community assets and challenges)
- Facilitates, obtains or coordinates transportation to services and helps ameliorate other barriers to services
- Communicates with other workers and agency professionals regarding client and community needs and concerns
- Acts as frontline outreach advocate and liaison service provider linking individuals and communities
- Tracks, reports, shares and utilizes data for in-patient care and service delivery
- Writes reports on clients, outreach, and health education activities and related project
- Improves the value and quality of cultural competence in human service care delivery
- Applies professional skills, ethics, professional boundaries, and cultural humility, in working with diverse clients and communities
- Provides active listening, support, and coaching to patients on life changes that support health and wellness
- Attends to behavioral health diagnosis and treatment issues for clients
- Delivers health information using culturally appropriate terms and concepts
- Documents and tracks individual- and population-level data
- Responds to challenging and provocative client statements in ways that move interactions forward
