Community Outreach Worker

Summary

Performs community outreach and health education activities for targeted health care program.

Duties & Essential Job Functions

• Acts as liaison between client, relatives, guardians, employers, physicians, and service providers on behalf of clients.
• Administers risk assessment questionnaires.
• Affords assistance in determining vocational goals and abilities.
• Affords assistance in developing case management plans; oversees implementation of plans subject to review by professional staff.
• Assists with coordination and delivery of preventive health care programs.
• Attends staff conferences; represents staff in community-agency meetings.
• Collects and delivers (if applicable) participant's informed consent forms and/or questionnaires to designated staff.
• Conducts intake interviews with clients and relatives to obtain information concerning medical/social history and current mental condition, following established protocols.
• Informs clients of community services available and may contact those agencies/community-based organizations on clients' behalf.
• Performs community outreach and health education activities to targeted groups and/or individuals.
• Pre-screens clients to determine health care/social service needs and communicates those needs to professional or paraprofessional personnel as necessary.
• Provides community groups with educational information concerning health/social service programs in Alameda County.
• Recruits volunteers to attend drug treatment programs at participating drug treatment centers.
• Translates educational and other resource materials for specific targeted population.

Minimum Qualifications Required

• Education: A.A. degree from a recognized college in health services, social science or a related field such as psychology or counseling; or completion of two years of college or university with 60 semester units or 90 quarter units from a four-year college or university with major coursework in health services, social science or a related field.
• Required Experience: One year full-time experience working in a community outreach program performing duties such as intake, peer counseling, assessments, program screening, placement and referral is preferred, or one year full-time experience in the class of Specialist Clerk or higher with AHS services performing similar duties, or the equivalent of two years of full-time experience working in a community outreach program performing similar duties.

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred Education: N/A
• Preferred Experience: N/A

Required Licenses/Certifications

• N/A