Community Health & Wellness Services Coordinator Job Northern Kentucky USA,Healthcare

Description

The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) is a non-profit organization established in 1976 to serve immigrants, refugees, and the broader community in Portland, Oregon. Our mission is to welcome, serve and empower refugees, immigrants and people across cultures and generations to reach their full potential. Find out more o.org.

POSITION:
Community Health & Wellness Services Coordinator JOB CLASS/GRADE:
Coordinator 3/Specialist 4;
Grade 5 WAGE:
Starting at $62,655 per year based on experience FLSA; EEO; WC:
Exempt;
Professional; 8864 LOCATIONS:
One of IRCO’s offices:

IRCO Main Office, 10301 NE Glisan St. Portland OR 97220

Africa House, 709 NE 102nd Ave. Portland OR 97220

Pacific Islander & Asian Family Center, 8040 NE Sandy Blvd. Portland OR 97213

Greater Middle East Center, 4915 SW Griffith Dr. Suite 216, Beaverton OR 97005

Slavic & Eastern European Center, 555 SE 99th Ave. Suite 101, Portland OR 97216

Hybrid schedule (2 days on-site, 3 days remote)

FTE; FT/PT; STATUS: 1.0 FTE;
Full-Time with Benefits;
Regular NUMBER OF POSITIONS: (1) APPLY AT: www.irco.org STATUS:
Full-Time with Benefits PROGRAM(S):
Health and Wellness SECTOR/DIVISION:
Community Health & Wellness/Community Safety & Wellbeing REQUIREMENTS

English fluency required, bilingual in any additional language preferred. Must be a certified Community Health Worker (CHW) with at least 2 years of experience. Must be able to pass extensive Background Check.

Program/Department Summary

The Community Health and Wellness sector provides services that support the physical, behavioral, and emotional health and wellbeing of individuals and communities. Our staff are certified Traditional Health Workers (such as Community Health Workers (CHW), Peer Support Specialists (PSS), and Doulas) who offer direct services such as healthcare and systems navigation, health insurance enrollment, physical and emotional health support, adjustment support, mental health resource navigation, and client-directed case management.

We also engage in community outreach and physical and emotional health education via community workshops, psycho-education support groups, and by hosting monthly health clinics that provide dental services, health services, and community resource information.

Position Summary

The Community Health & Wellness Coordinator is responsible for coordinating the daily operations of Community Health and Wellness programs, including directly supervising a team of Community Health Workers (CHWs), Peer Support Specialists (PSS) and Birth Doulas from various background and experiences who work directly with clients, families, and healthcare personnel to support communities via healthcare navigation, health education, peer support, wellness groups, prevention education, individual client support, and other systems navigation.

The Community Health & Wellness Coordinator provides day-to-day supervision and mentoring of staff, ensuring trauma-informed, community-aware approach services reach community members. This position ensures staff have ongoing training and competence to provide referrals, direct services, and support to assist participants and provide accurate documentation of services as required. This position also ensures that Medicaid billing standards and documentation requirements are met.

This position works closely with the Community Health & Wellness Sector Manager and the Coordinators team, program funders, and community partners. The Community Health & Wellness Coordinator successfully coordinates, implements, reports, and evaluates the programs in their portfolio, as well as other projects as needed and assigned.

Essential Functions

Possess and apply an impeccable degree of confidentiality and utilize knowledge of laws about confidentiality, disclosures, and releases of information to ensure program and staff compliance.
With a fair degree of autonomy, coordinate implementation of CHW, PSS and Birth Doula programs, develop staff workplans, monitor caseloads and opening/closing of new cases, monitor expenses, monitor ongoing program eligibility (ORR and Medicaid eligibility), review and submit invoices, track deliverables and prepare reports and communicate with funders as needed.
Supervise a team of CHWs, PSSs; and Birth Doulas. Hold regular case conferences and utilize problem-solving skills and sector expertise to support and grow staff; provide staff with backup during absences or difficult client situations.
Implement a participant-centered,…