If you are passionate about improving community health and enjoy building meaningful connections, we encourage you to apply!

The Community Health Worker supports patients and their social and health needs by helping them navigate and access community resources, social services, and medical systems. Serves as a liaison between Cedars-Sinai and the community to facilitate access to services through assessment, care coordination, and other case management activities. The Community Health Worker is community based but will often partner cross-functionally with Cedars-Sinai team members, including but not limited to, medical providers, social workers, and case managers to provide intensive personal support to patients to ensure that all health needs are met.

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Community Health Worker to join our team. The ideal candidate will have strong interpersonal skills, cultural sensitivity, and the ability to connect with diverse communities. This role involves working onsite and meeting health education participants in person to provide resources, education, and support.

• Meet with health education participants onsite and in the community.
• Provide culturally sensitive health education and support to diverse populations.
• Build and maintain relationships with community members and stakeholders.
• Coordinate multiple priorities and manage timelines effectively.
• Utilize Microsoft Office, tablets, and smartphones for reporting and communication.

• Engages, builds rapports, establishes a trusting relationship and continuous candid communication with patients/participants and patient/participant support systems.
• Assesses social determinants of health needs in patients/participants and documents appropriately.
• Determines social determinants of health concerns/ gaps, develops a plan to address moderate social and health disparities.
• Assists patients/participants with problem-solving barriers to health stabilization by identifying, locating, connecting to and navigating needed community and medical system services including visiting patients at their homes, accompanying patients to appointments and assisting patients with completing forms to access needed services.
• Conducts proactive follow up with patients/participants and families to reduce barriers in accessing resources.
• Works collaboratively and professionally with other disciplines of the health care team including medical providers, social workers, case managers, and other patient navigators.
• Establishes professional relationships and partners with community stakeholders, community resources, health plans and providers by participating in local community engagement activities with local agencies e.g. community based organizations, social service agencies, faith-based organizations, community centers, government agencies, etc. to promote support for continued involvement and cooperation in community health projects.
• Identifies gaps in community resources and supports the implementation of new solutions or services to close identified gaps.
• Disseminates community resource updates to Cedars-Sinai staff and community stakeholders.
• Work independently to fulfill general requests; works with internal team to solve more complex issues.
• Provides overall programmatic support, including meeting coordination, data collection and analysis, and other administrative duties as assigned.

• Acts as a liaison between patients/families and health providers by following organization???s values and mission
• Provides patient education and assists with the delivery of melanoma cancer prevention and education.
• Provide basic and informal counseling, support, and follow-up with participants, meeting with them a minimum of 3 times.
• Communicate effectively and professionally when engaging with participants.
• Work collaboratively with Stanford Medicine???s Research Coordinator and Cedar Sinai Cancer???s Program Administrator.
• Ability to organizing resources and establishing priorities.
• Assist to build understanding of services available to support healthier decisions and lifestyle choices.
• Deliver health information using culturally appropriate terms and concepts.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma/GED required.
• 1 year of experience in community-level health education or related field.
• Must have a car, valid driver???s license, and insurance coverage.
• Written and oral fluency in English and Spanish is required.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated empathy and cultural sensitivity.

Preferred, not required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Public Health, Community Health and/or related.
• 2 years of experience working with vulnerable populations, homeless individuals/families, people with mental illness and substance use disorders.

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