AmeriCorps Member – Oral Health Coordinator

Job Description Summary

About the role

Healthy Communities is CHC’s AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
• Develop community outreach and patient engagement strategies to support patient registration for oral health care services.
• Provide ongoing tabling and patient recruitment activities at main sites, specifically Hartford, New Britain, Middletown, and New London.
• Provide 1:1 patient education to existing CHC patients on the importance of oral health care and establishment of a dental home.
• Administer and collect PRAPARE (Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patient Assets, Risks, and Experiences) survey from caregivers of patients ages 6 months to 5 years of age at selected clinic sites.
• Research, design, and develop resource list/content for caregivers of patients to address barriers in accessing services.
• Connect caregivers of patients with resources needed to establish a dental home, such as transportation services.
• Review and analyze PRAPARE data to formulate presentations and inform continued oral health services.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or equivalent required.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Excellent oral and written skills.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and remain calm during a crisis.
• Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC).
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state.

Preferred Qualifications

• An associate’s degree in public health, social work related field.
• Bilingual English/Spanish.
• Knowledge of and/or experience in behavioral health.
• Experience working with children and/or oral health.
• Knowledge and understanding of crisis intervention strategies.

Benefits

This is not a staff position. This Is The Opportunity For You If You Are highly outgoing, friendly, enthusiastic, and energetic. Enjoy working with others including children. Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail. Have a strong interest in health care, public health. Thrive in a fast paced environment. Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team.

Pay

$25,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly.

Schedule

Part time.