Upvote
Downvote
Community Health Worker - Albany, Full Time
Share Job
- Suggest Revision
$17.85 - $23.8 an hour
Full-time
- Community Health Worker - Community Health & Well Being
- A Community Health Worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker, who is a trusted member of and/or has a remarkable understanding of the community served.
- This trusting relationship with the community enables the CHW to serve as a liaison/link/intermediary between the SPHP and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery.
- A CHW builds 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.
- Screen and mitigate social care needs of our dually eligible population (patients enrolled in both Medicaid and Medicare), as an intervention to reduce preventable hospitalizations (SO Metric)
Active Job
Updated 15 days agoSimilar Job
Relevance
Active