Lead Community Health Worker

Overview

Job Description
The Lead Community Health Worker (CHW) is a representative member of HCPC’s service area trained to work with clients to provide advocacy, education and direct connections to clinical and social support as well as build community capacity. The Lead CHW should be someone knowledgeable of the community culture and languages spoken, showing a high level of cultural competence, with a goal of providing accurate health and wellness-based information as well as connection to community-based social service organizations in an effort to reduce identified disparities and improve health outcomes.

The Lead CHW ensures accurate and updated information is provided to clients and works to directly connect individuals to community services and resources and track outcomes.

The Lead CHW works in partnership with the HCPC team to recruit and enroll clients and coordinate care using evidence-based care coordination models and HCPC workflows. Client recruitment may occur through clinical partners, community-based organizations, faith-based organizations, and by participating in public community outreach events.

The Lead CHW gathers feedback and recommendations from Senior CHW and CHW regarding advocacy and coordination for clients to clinical and non-clinical service providers, may conduct and/or supervise CHW client home visits and assessments, identifies clients’ needs and priorities, coordinates transportation and access to basic needs, confirms attendance at clinical visits, documents outcomes of clinical and social referrals, and may accompany clients to appointments as appropriate.

The client-specific plan for the CHW may be developed in conjunction with the client and the referring partner and is based on evidence-based practices.

At least 4 years of experience as a Community Health Worker or similar role with demonstrated success and consistency in meeting job expectations. Demonstrated work as a role model and leader as CHW. Work requires at least an associate’s degree with credits in Community Health;
Bachelor’s degree preferred. Knowledge of and a strong desire to help residents of HCPC service area is essential. Bilingual in Spanish or Arabic highly preferred.

St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.

(Full-time and Part-Time Employees-over 20 hours a week)

• Competitive salary*
• Robust benefits with health, dental, Rx and vision plans
• 403b retirement plan options with company match**
• Health & Wellness*
• Non-Profit Health System – eligible for Federal Student Loan Forgiveness
• PTO, and paid holidays
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• LTD :
  Long Term Disability
• Life Insurance Options
• Onsite Day care Program
• Available for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.
• 403b Company Match not applicable for Per Diem Employees and Part-time Employees working under 20 hours per week.

St. Joseph’s Health provides a salary range to comply with New Jersey Law. The rate of pay for each position will be determined based on a variety of factors including the candidate's relevant experience, qualifications, skills, etc.” The salary range does not include incentives, differential pay or other forms of compensation.

St. Joseph’s University Medical Center is an academic tertiary care medical center and state designated trauma center, located on the Paterson campus, regularly accepts referrals of difficult or unusual cases from other hospitals and physicians and performs both complex and routine procedures.

The Medical Center offers a full complement of specialty and subspecialty services including ambulatory, behavioral health, cardiovascular, emergency/trauma, internal medicine, neuroscience, oncology, orthopedic/spine, rehabilitation, surgical specialty, women’s health, imaging and pediatrics.

The nursing team eph’s University Medical Center, which includes St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital, has held the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence, the profession’s highest honor, since 1999. They are also recipients of the prestigious 2010 Magnet Prize™ - one of only 8 Magnet-designated hospitals to ever receive The Magnet Prize, and the only one worldwide to receive the 2010 award.