Community Health Worker Coordinator
Company: Caridad Center
Location: Boynton Beach
Posted on: May 12, 2022
Job Description:
Job DescriptionDuties & Responsibilities
- Supervise and support CHWs, Health Promoters (HPs), and Health
Educators (HEs), including support for training coordination,
development and implementation, and related projects.
- Provides support for Caridad Center CHWs, HPs, & HEs to
facilitate internal and external workgroups related to CHW training
and other workforce issues, relevant workgroups, and other chronic
disease-related activities.
- Supports Caridad Center in responding to inquiries for
information and maintaining the website.
- Assists with CHWs, HPs, & HEs independent contracts
supervision.
- Collects and compiles community health worker-related
resources.
- Maintain accountability for all CHWs, HPs, and HEs entering all
educational workshops and classes' demographics and outcome
information for reporting purposes.
- Responsible for maintaining the data and record of CHW's
working and volunteer hours and the total number of workshops,
classes, and demos performed monthly. Report to the department
director or data team by the 5th of every month.
- Make phone calls to CHWs for educational activities and
training.
- Set order and distribution of CHWs uniforms.
- Phone call for Confirmation of recruitment for CHWs for
training and activities.
- Home visit records data entry.
- Collect, update and maintain CHWs Contract. (Home visit or
educational activities with required documents).
- Update the Health Education Programs Coordinator of any changes
for Educational Activities in the PET Calendar.
- Scan and maintain records of all the educational
activities.
- Coordinates and oversees purchases, contracts, reports,
mailings, and travel arrangements for all related CHWs, HPs, and
HEs activities.
- Maintain an active participation with the Florida CHWs
Coalition
- Support CHWs requests by phone and electronically from the
Florida Board Certification regarding CHWs.
- Reviews reports and other documents for completeness, accuracy,
and content.
- Participate in on-site and off-site training, continuing
education programs, and in-service training to meet CHW
certification, funding, or regulatory requirements and meet the
community's needs.
- In collaboration with the department director, develop and
coordinate a core competency model for CHPs & HEs.
- Contributes and is an active part of a positive and
professional team, supporting the organization's mission.
- Functions within flexible work schedule (including but not
limited to days, early evenings, and weekends) as assigned by site
and partnership manager and as required by the job.
- Manages and maintains educational, visual, and incentive
inventory for workshops.
- Submit monthly and quarterly reports on the 5th of every
month.
- Attend meetings and training as required.
- Work in support of and cooperation with CHC staff.
- Other duties as assigned. Programmatic Responsibilities
- Understand of, and commit to health equity, including racial
equity and addressing the social determinants of health.
- Collaborate with the recruitment effectively, interviewing,
hiring, and termination of CHWS, related staff, and
volunteers.
- Aides in the development of monthly reports provided by the
outreach team.
- Must be able to work independently.
- Ability to receive and offer feedback constructively.
- Ability to handle complex and stressful situations with
professional composure
- Provide department presentations to partnership organizations,
patients, and community members. Qualifications
- Active Florida Board CHW certification
- Post-secondary education, with at least five years of
experience in a public health environment, specifically outreach
coordination.
- Must demonstrate strong interpersonal, oral, and written
communication skills.
- Bilingual (English & Spanish) proficiency, computer literate,
effective collaboration, and culturally competent.
- Must be computer literate and have effective collaboration,
communication, and documentation skills.
Keywords: Caridad Center, Boynton Beach , Community Health Worker Coordinator, Healthcare , Boynton Beach, Florida
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