Community Liaison Worker - Level ll

About the role

NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue is America’s oldest public hospital, established in 1736. Affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, the 844-bed hospital is a major referral center for highly complex cases, with its 6,000 employees including highly skilled, interdisciplinary clinical staff. It sees more than 110,000 emergency room visits and 700,000 outpatient visits annually. Bellevue is an academic medical institution of international renown.

Responsibilities

The purpose of this position is to perform liaison functions between City agencies, local residents, and community organizations, in order to provide assistance, obtain participation and support for housing development and community development and implement public service programs.

• Interviews local residents, landlords, government personnel, business people and youths to solicit support for community development programs, to ascertain needs of communities and to determine courses of action to meet those needs which are acceptable to the communities.
• Interviews staff and representatives of governmental, educational, and social agencies and unions for the purposes of securing information for and transmitting information from community organizations and residents.
• Assists in the preparation and distribution of informational materials relating to the programs, objectives, and activities of both communities and educational institutions.
• Assists in the training of subordinate staff.
• Makes written and oral reports as required.
• Keeps records related to programs, activities, objectives, etc.

Qualifications

This role requires three (3) years of full-time experience in counseling, community work or community health activities in a government agency or community organization engaged in providing community services to the public, assisting members of the community in obtaining community services or maintaining liaison with schools, community organizations or other government agencies for the purpose of providing assistance and obtaining participation and support for implementation of community or public service programs.

Alternatively, education and/or experience equivalent to the above may be considered, including completion of an approved six (6) month training program of combined classroom training and on-the-job experience in community liaison work, or study at an accredited college in sociology, psychology or other behavioral science.

Skills

Preference will be given to applicants with at least a high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a State’s Department of Education or a recognized accrediting organization.