Community Health Worker - Seaford (Finance)

Nemours is seeking a Community Health Worker to support our Seaford, DE location. Position is 40 hours per week.

The Community Health Worker (CHW) will be responsible for helping Nemours Children's Health patients and their families to navigate and access community services and other resources and adopt healthy behaviors. The CHW supports providers and the Care Management team through an integrated approach to care management and community outreach. As a priority, activity will promote, maintain, and improve the health of patients and their families, provide social support and informal counseling and advocate for individuals and community health needs. The CHW will promote the health and well-being of patients and families by providing the re-education of and coaching to families on disease/health management.

This position is responsible for: advocating, facilitating and organizing access to health and social services with/for an identified community to improve the health and well-being of community members. Community outreach, such as calls to the home, home visits and health screenings will be required. This position will be in the community and visiting families in their homes and provider offices. As a priority, CHW activity acts to promote, maintain, and improve the health of patients and their families, provide social support and informal counseling and advocate for individuals and community health needs.

Position is full-time, 40 hours per week.

Responsibilities:

Establish trusting relationships with patients and their families while providing general support, encouragement and promoting general health and well-being.

Advocating, facilitating, and organizing access to health and social services with/for families to improve health and well-being of the community at large, particularly those families who have children diagnosed with a chronic disease.

Provide case management of non-medical needs to a caseload of high-needs families through regular and ongoing communication ensuring engagement of and a collaborative approach to working with them through an integrated approach to care management and community outreach.

Utilize EMR to document patient care, communicate with the primary care team, and collect data at set intervals through assessment tools, collaborating with the leadership to reflect issues that affect health and gauge patient progress.

Conduct intake interviews with patients/families, including enrolling and/or referring patients into appropriate community programs. Provide referrals for services to community agencies as appropriate. Identify, create, and nurture relationships with local agencies, schools, churches and other programs that can provide services to children and their families.

Provide health re-education on topics related to medications, therapies, health promotion, and informal counseling. Accomplished through partnership with patients' medical team, social work, and care coordinators for follow up with patients/parents via phone calls, home visits and visits to other settings where the patient can be found.

Assist in managing care and care transitions for vulnerable populations by establishing supportive relationships with families via regular and ongoing communication to identify and address issues that may contribute to poor health and readmissions. Help patients connect with transportation resources and give appointment reminders as appropriate.

Collaborate with the medical and social work team to address and document non-medical issues that affect the health of patients. This includes all social determinants of health needs including but not limited to food insecurity, financial hardships, transportation, housing, violence prevention, etc..

Utilize problem solving skills to assist in unusual or difficult patient/family situations. Assist with access to medical insurance, specialty pharmacies.

Refer to CHW Asthma Role and Responsibilities

Qualifications:

• Minimum of one year of prior experience as a Community Health Worker or related experience providing education to individuals on health management.
• High school diploma required

Expectations:

• Attend CHW Core Competency training program
• Become certified as an asthma educator within 3 months of hire
• Attend and complete motivational interviewing training
• Attend basic skills for working with smokers training

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About Us

Nemours Children's Health is an internationally recognized children's health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children's hospitals - Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children's Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we're on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children's health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child's world a place to thrive. It's a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children's and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .