Upvote
Downvote
Community Health Worker
Share Job
- Suggest Revision
Full-time
- The Community Health Worker (CHW) is responsible for helping patients and their families to navigate and access community services, other resources and adopt healthy behaviors.
- The Community Health Worker is a trusted member of and/ or a person who has an unusually close understanding of the community served in the delivery of health-related services through either working directly with providers or their partner organizations.
- This trusting relationship with the community enables CHW's to serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate members' access to community services and improve the quality and cultural competence of services delivered.
- CHW's build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy.
- Engage, motivate, and advocate community members to build knowledge and skills for self- directed change and community development.
Active Job
Updated 3 days agoSimilar Job
Relevance
Active