Community Health Worker - Correctional Health (25K Retention Bonus) FT/Day 7:00A-3:30P M-F
Harris Health System is the public healthcare safety-net provider established in 1966 to serve the residents of Harris County, Texas. As an essential healthcare system, Harris Health champions better health for the entire community, with a focus on low-income uninsured and underinsured patients, through acute and primary care, wellness, disease management and population health services. Ben Taub Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Level 3 Trauma Center) anchor Harris Health's robust network of 39 clinics, health centers, specialty locations and virtual (telemedicine) technology. Harris Health is among an elite list of health systems in the U.S. achieving Magnet® nursing excellence designation for its hospitals, the prestigious National Committee for Quality Assurance designation for its patient-centered clinics and health centers and its strong partnership with nationally recognized physician faculty, residents and researchers from Baylor College of Medicine; McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth); The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; and the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine at the University of Houston.
Job Summary - CORRECTIONAL HEALTH
As a Community Health Worker, you will serve as an integral member of Correctional Health's interdisciplinary care team, partnering to help patients improve their health holistically. You will work directly with patients to assess needs across all aspects of their lives, including any economic and social challenges alongside their physical and mental health needs. The information you gather will support the development of a team-based action plan, and your ongoing work with the patient will include establishing the patient's priorities and working together on goals. You will be the point person for a panel of patients, available and accessible to provide assistance or troubleshoot in a crisis. You will work alongside, and will be supported by, a care team associated with each patient in order to help improve patients total health.
Minimum Qualifications
School Education: High School Diploma or GED
Licenses & Certifications: Texas DSHS CHW Certification Preferred
Work Experience: Three (3) years of experience with patient navigation, care management, or any kind of direct service provision to patients in a community health/outreach, and/or health care setting.
Language Skills: Bilingual Skills (preferred): English/Spanish; English/Vietnamese
Communication Skills: Above Average Verbal (Heavy Public Contact) ,Writing/Correspondence
Proficiencies: Personal Computer
Job Attributes
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Analytical Abilities
Work Schedule: Flexible, Travel, Weekends, Eligible for Telecommute
Other Requirements:
You must have access to reliable transportation to travel to worksites throughout Harris County.
You have a passion for working within the community you are a part of, or have been a part of in the past.
You want to improve the health of patients and communities.
You are a self-starter and a thinker who is eager to learn, improve, and grow.