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Community Health Worker, Mobile Clinic / Housing for Health
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- The Mobile clinic CHWs work closely with the medical and social service team within the mobile clinic to provide"wrap around" services to our most vulnerable, complex patients and provide them with health promotion and harm reduction services.
- The Community Health Worker will be an integral part of the Behavioral Health Team of Mobile clinic providing linkage and resources and case management services to patients in encampments and on the streets.
- These patients typically have chronic medical conditions, behavioral health issues, and social struggles such as homelessness, substance use disorder, social isolation, illiteracy, and poverty.
- The CHW provides key interventions that include health coaching, disease self-management support, accompaniment to appointments, andtransitions of care support after hospitalizations to prevent readmissions.
- The types of engagement of a CHW may include longitudinal health promotion, short-term stabilization, and ad hoc intervention.
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