Senior Community Health Worker
St. Joseph's Health
Date: 12 hours ago
City: Paterson, New Jersey
Contract type: Full time
Job Description
This role serves as a member of the community trained to provide education and advocacy to individuals and to the community with a goal of providing health based information geared towards reducing identified health disparities. This job encompasses the responsibilities of the Children's Healthcare Worker (CHW) and in addition: ensures information on community services is current and up to date, checks routinely with agencies for updates and educates staff; orients and onboards new CHW's and coordinated CHW's schedules and patient volumes; attends webinars (ACO/CMS) to learn best practices for successful CHW interventions and education of staff; works as CHW for the CCCM (Chronic Disease and Complex Case Management) program, which typically is a higher acuity population; assists Quality Performance Program Managers in closing quality gaps on the patients being followed; assists getting the ACO and other assigned managed populations patients in for their annual or bi-annual (chronic disease patients) physician appointments.
Qualifications
Work requires an Associate's degree in a healthcare related field, preferably with a focus on community health/social work/social sciences with at least 1 year of prior experience. Bachelor's degree preferred. Bi-lingual in Spanish or Arabic highly preferred. Knowledge of and a strong desire to help the community is essential. Valid driver’s license with no pending violations and an acceptable safe driving record, as well as compliance with Qualifications to Drive a System Vehicle as well as all policies as outlined in the SJH Fleet Management and Safety Program.
About Us
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”.
Benefits Eligibility: (Full-time and Part-time Employees-over 20 hours a week)
About The Team
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 at St. Joseph’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.
This role serves as a member of the community trained to provide education and advocacy to individuals and to the community with a goal of providing health based information geared towards reducing identified health disparities. This job encompasses the responsibilities of the Children's Healthcare Worker (CHW) and in addition: ensures information on community services is current and up to date, checks routinely with agencies for updates and educates staff; orients and onboards new CHW's and coordinated CHW's schedules and patient volumes; attends webinars (ACO/CMS) to learn best practices for successful CHW interventions and education of staff; works as CHW for the CCCM (Chronic Disease and Complex Case Management) program, which typically is a higher acuity population; assists Quality Performance Program Managers in closing quality gaps on the patients being followed; assists getting the ACO and other assigned managed populations patients in for their annual or bi-annual (chronic disease patients) physician appointments.
Qualifications
Work requires an Associate's degree in a healthcare related field, preferably with a focus on community health/social work/social sciences with at least 1 year of prior experience. Bachelor's degree preferred. Bi-lingual in Spanish or Arabic highly preferred. Knowledge of and a strong desire to help the community is essential. Valid driver’s license with no pending violations and an acceptable safe driving record, as well as compliance with Qualifications to Drive a System Vehicle as well as all policies as outlined in the SJH Fleet Management and Safety Program.
About Us
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”.
Benefits Eligibility: (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.
About The Team
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 at St. Joseph’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.
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