Community Health Worker - Homeless Shelter

Description

Essential Duties:

• •Help clients understand their health condition(s) and develop strategies to improve their health and wellbeing
• •Facilitate communication and client empowerment in interactions with healthcare/social service systems
• •Serve as a liaison between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to quality services and health resources
• •Assist clients with insurance applications or other paperwork and provide informal counselling, support, and follow up with them as needed
• •Assist clients to build understanding and social capital to support healthier behaviors and lifestyle choices
• •Work with healthcare and social service systems to help them be culturally relevant and responsive to their service population
• •Provide health service screenings such as blood pressure monitoring, coaching diabetes monitoring, observe medication consumption, and medication counts
• •Collect data and report findings to healthcare providers

Other Duties:

• •Any other duties required by supervisor
• •Evaluate emergency situations and handles them when the Supervisor is not in the area
• •Maintains confidentiality of all data, including guests, employee, and operational data

Education/Qualifications:

• •High School Diploma/GED – CHW Certification preferred with one or more years of experience
• •Must agree with and sign LifePath’s Statement of Christian faith and be able to share that faith and knowledge with staff and guests
• •Must have excellent and demonstrated interpersonal relations and both written and oral communication skills
• •Proficiency with MS Office Suite, computer input, and database management

Other Factors to Consider:

• •Ability to walk, stand and/or sit for long periods of time, reach, lift, bend, kneel, stoop, climb stairs, push, and pull items weighing 25 pounds or less; manual dexterity; auditory and visual skills; ability to follow written and oral instructions and procedures.
• •Excellent reading and writing skills; typing/computer usage; proficient interpersonal relations and communicative skills; ability to follow written and oral instructions and procedures;
• •Possess a valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License

Working Conditions:

Inside and outside environment