Location: Minneapolis,MN, USA
Description
The Community Health Worker is responsible for assisting clients and care team members with a wide variety of care coordination activities. Connects clients to resources and health care programs that best fit their unique situation through assessment and ongoing support, eliminates barriers to care and increases knowledge of self-management and health promotion activities. The services are designed to disrupt health inequities and drive improved health outcomes.
Special emphasis on promoting healthy lifestyles and wellbeing using platforms such as webinars, Power Point presentations, Zoom, in office and home visit meetings are required.
Job Family: Entry level/Direct Care
Key Functions and Responsibilities:
+ Partner with Outreach Staff in offering culturally appropriate dementia education classes to partner organization staff.
+ Partner with Outreach Staff to offer exercise and educational classes for participants within partner organizations.
+ Provide culturally appropriate memory screenings with group outreach sessions and individual home visits.
+ Support the needs of participants facing dementia and their caregivers.
+ Provide group education through Zoom, Webinars, and Workshops.
+ Accompany and support project physicians within mobile health screening and dementia diagnostic assessments.
+ Partner with project Social Worker in offering culturally appropriate caregiver support groups and evidence base caregiver education series.
+ Provide care coordination services for assigned project participants.
+ Follow-up with participants vial online calls, home visits, and visits to other settings to meet the participants.
+ Act as a participant advocate and liaison between participants/family and partner organizations.
+ Record participant records.
+ Provide in-home, in the community or at staff office, health education and health screens using the Healthy Living Lifestyle change model.
+ Must be flexible to work some Saturdays or weekends.
Qualifications
Education
Preferred
+ Technical/other training or better
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)