Community Health Worker

About the Role

You will provide support to staff and families in a home-based setting, assisting those coping with physical, emotional, socioeconomic, and/or social difficulties. Responsibilities include community outreach, helping families practice skills learned during treatment, connecting families with resources, and assisting staff with administrative tasks. This is a hybrid role with 20% remote work, and you will collaborate closely with Clinical Care Coordinators and Clinicians on the FSP team.

Responsibilities

• Complete a community health worker certification course as needed.
• Schedule and attend in-home check-in sessions with families to support their treatment and help them practice skills related to their identified goals.
• Collect, assemble, and help families access community resource information.
• Write progress notes in the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in accordance with expected requirements and due dates.
• Provide community support, identify and attend community events, and engage in community outreach.
• Attend required meetings to discuss cases, openings, and progress.
• Accompany team members on in-home visits to support service delivery as needed.
• Transport clients to sessions as needed.
• Provide support and guidance to individuals and families managing crises, and participate in an on-call crisis support phone rotation.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Experience working in child welfare, parent education, or home-based services required.
• Knowledge of child and adolescent development, family dynamics, substance abuse, and/or crisis intervention preferred.
• Lived experience with the foster care/kinship care system strongly preferred.
• Statewide travel is required.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Must authorize a motor vehicle records check.
• Must have a valid driver’s license, auto insurance, and car registration.
• Must meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, and driving.
• Must be able to carry and lift up to 25 lbs.
• Requires operating a desktop, laptop, and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.

Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services Requirements

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.