Community Health Worker Job Bryan Texas USA,Healthcare

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Position:
Community Health Worker

Location: HealthPoint Creekside Clinic

Salary: Based on Experience

Job Brief: Under the general guidance of the RN Care Manager, the Community Health Worker will be responsible for supporting patients in improving their comprehensive care needs. The Community Health Worker works closely and collaboratively with the Care Management team, as well as with the primary care, to ensure high quality and seamless care for patients.

Essential Functions:

Co-Manage (with Registered Nurse oversight) a panel of patients within health center(s), working collaboratively with health center staff to engage patients into care, close gaps in care, manage referrals, coordinate preventative care, and schedule recommended appointments.

Provide culturally competent community outreach based on available information to effectively engage patients, introduce the care management program, and support participation. Ensure patient understands program benefits, Community Health Worker's role, how to make best use of the program, and obtain consent to participate.

Establish trusting relationships with patients to enable effective intervention and support.

Apply motivational interviewing to conduct screening of specific conditions based on protocols such as severity of substance use, alcohol consumption or safety in order to identify appropriate referral sources for support. Identify patient strengths, needs, preferences and psychosocial/SDOH barriers to identify intervention opportunities to improved health care outcomes and quality of life.

Support the patient in identification of actionable wellness, safety, and healthy behavior goals to optimize health outcomes in collaboration with the care team.

Implement the patient approved plan of care in collaboration with the care team through clinical, community and home-based visits and telephonic support.

Provide health education/information according to specified protocols addressing patient’s preferred language and preference for pictorial, written, or auditory materials. Refer patients to the Registered Nurse Care Management when they require information related to their health and medical diseases.

Promote independent patient self-management and healthy living by identifying decision-making opportunities, providing support, and referring to community support services.

Promote effective connection of patients to a primary care provider for services. Support independent scheduling of initial and ongoing appointments, reduce barriers to attendance such as transportation or interpretation needs, and conduct follow up contact and post-visit support.

Promote effective communication between patients and providers through skill development and pre-visit coaching. Intervene to reduce linguistic, cultural, and other barriers to health care. Encourage adherence to provider advice, treatment plan and keeping appointments. Identify and address barriers to treatment adherence according to protocol.

Facilitate referrals according to protocols to providers and community-based organizations and programs to address identified needs and barriers to care including: housing,…