Community Health Worker
San Jose, CA US
Job Description
A-Line Staffing is now hiring a Community Health Worker. The Community Health Worker would be working for a Major Healthcare Organization in San Jose, CA and has career growth potential. This would be full time / 40 hours per week.
Community Health Worker Compensation:
- The pay for this position is $21.38-$23.50 hourly
- Benefits are available to full-time employees after 90 days of employment
- A 401(k) with a company match is available for full-time employees with 1 year of service on our eligibility dates
Community Health Worker Highlights:
- The required availability for this position are as follows: 40 hours per week between Monday - Friday 8am – 7pm, with possible rotating Saturday shifts 8am-5pm
Community Health Worker Responsibilities:
- Book appointments in Electronic Health Record, according to providers’ scope of practice.
- Use Microsoft Office to communicate and report information
- Perform patient screening surveys; score questionnaires and alert care team
- Document encounters in electronic health records
- Participate in health fairs, community and outreach events to promote company services
- Maintain logs as directed by supervisors
- Participate in health fairs, tabling, collect information
- Schedule in person interpreters, and transportation, via patient health plans as applicable
- Be highly dependable and independent
- Conduct outreach and enrollment services in available public benefit programs
- Connect patients to internal resources and/or services to meet their needs
- Serve as a liaison between the community and health and social services.
- Interface well with clinic staff, community and care teams.
- Meet departmental review and documentation standards for work assignment
- Adhere to the policy and procedures of assigned clinic(s)
- Build and maintain appropriate relationships on behalf of the company
- Support a positive image of the company inside and outside the organization.
- Work flexible hours, which includes some evenings and weekends
- Work at any of the locations, including clinics, mobiles, schools, homeless encampments, warming centers and patients’ homes, or patient appointments as assigned.
Community Health Worker Job Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Two (2) years of experience in a community-based health care service capacity preferred
- Bilingual preferred
- Proficiency in computer operations, navigational skills and comfortable with Internet-based applications; MS Outlook and Email etiquette
- Phone Etiquette
- CHW Certification - Recertification and/or retraining process, as required
- CPR
Community Health Worker Work Conditions/Physical Requirements:
- Travel to other sites and/or locations required
- Work outside in varying temperatures may be required
- Prolonged periods of standing or sitting.
- Work flexible hours, which includes some evenings and weekends
- Sitting, walking, and standing associated with office environment
- Regular bending, stretching and lifting
- Manual dexterity used to include, but not limited to, standard office equipment, and computer keyboard.
- Traveling to work sites may include exposure to outside elements
- Presenting information in front of a group or individual
- Reading and writing in order to review records for accuracy.
If you are interested in this Community Health Worker position, please apply to this posting!