AmeriCorps Member – Center Key Populations; CKP Health Navigator

Job Description

Summary:

Job Description:

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Public Health Ameri Corps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services.

Ameri Corps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, Ameri Corps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an Ameri Corps Member role – Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator – that supports the Center for Key Populations and throughout Middletown, Meriden, New Britain, and New London areas, Mobile Health Unit (MHU) and CT River Valley Farm worker Health Program.

Terms & Program Benefits:

• One-year service term from September 2, 2025 thru August 28, 2026
• Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $23,700 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff or volunteer position.

This is the opportunity for you if you:

• Possess a mature, compassionate, and sensitive demeanor
• Enjoy working with others and genuine desire to help
• Are organized and have great time management skills
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.

• Coordinate with CKP Outreach team to implement a strategic outreach plan that provides support and coordination to all healthcare for the homeless and MHU sites such as schedules, locations, staffing, templates, and patient visits.
• Facilitate outreach activities to coordinate and conduct new Medicaid patient enrollments.
• Provide individual patient health education to clients to encourage scheduling and completing routine care appointments.
• Provide outreach to patients via group or one on one individual patient education in areas of financial literacy, health education, overdose prevention, HIV testing and services and other areas of need in designated communities.
• Provide outreach engagement, enrollment, follow up and referral services for seasonal and migrant farm workers in the CT River Valley.
• Gather and compile a comprehensive community resource database for patients that provides enhanced resources and referral organizations that can address identified patient needs and/or barriers to be used at all sites.
• Strengthen community partnerships and collaborate with them on events to host that promote services for CHC patients and community members.
• Collaborate with community partners to develop education opportunities for CHC patients either individually or in groups.
• Partner with CKP providers to establish a sustainable system for continuity of information and services that maintains connections between all outreach departments for improved patient care.
• Create user friendly content for patients, community partners/organizations (ie, hospitals, churches, community centers) and CHC departments on how to access the CKP Services.
• Coordinate, conduct, and participate in community outreach and tabling events that promote patient education services.
• Actively participant in CKP meetings.

Qualifications:

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational…