Community Health Worker - Spanish Speaking Required - Fulltime

NYU Langone Health

Posted 3 months ago

Full Time

New York, New York

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The Community Health Worker supports patients in a primary care setting by addressing social drivers of health and facilitating access to medical and behavioral services. They provide education, coaching, and advocacy to improve patient health outcomes and quality of life.

Qualifications

You have a High School Diploma/GED and at least one year of experience in a health service-related field. You are also bilingual in English and Spanish (or another specified language) and possess basic computer and office equipment skills.

Must Have Skills for ATS

Spanish

Microsoft Office

EPIC

Job Description

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone, a designated Level 3 Medical Home, is the largest federally qualified health center network in New York State, and the second largest in the nation. It includes eight primary care sites, 40 school-based health centers and dental clinics, four day care centers, the nation's largest dental residency program, and New York State's largest behavioral health program. The network also includes 12 community medicine sites providing care to disenfranchised New Yorkers, comprehensive HIV services, chemical dependency programs, and a family support center that offers educational, vocational, and other social support programs. At NYU Langone Health, equity and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace inclusion and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

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Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Community Health Worker - Spanish Speaking Required - Fulltime.

In this role, the successful candidate The Community Health worker is part of an interdisciplinary team that includes, but is not limited to, medical and behavioral health providers servicing patients in a primary care setting. By ensuring patients remain or become engaged in services/programming, are educated about self-care issues, and are assisted with access to care, the Community Health Worker will be part of a team that improves patient health and thus quality of life.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Support patients in following recommendations that support brain health such as nutrition, sleep, exercise, and medication adherence. 
  • Assess patients for social drivers of health
  • Assist patients in accessing a full range of needed medical, behavioral health, chemical dependency, and community services.
  • Participate in all required trainings. 
  • Advocate for patients when barriers to care exist including language and literacy barriers, access to transportation, problems with insurance coverage, access to technology such as MyChart, child care problems, appointment scheduling conflict, etc.
  • Provide education and coaching to parents to promote positive health outcomes. 
  • Provide office and community based support services to patients (E.g.- Patient escorts to medical appointments, medical appointment reminders, assistance with obtaining medications from pharmacies, etc.)
  • Screen patients for program and benefit eligibility and assist with benefit applications and connection to services that impact patients physical health and emotional well-being.
  • Document all work with patients in Compass Rose module of EPIC and other required platforms in compliance with department standards.
  • Complete care plans with patients in collaboration with clinical team. 
  • Support the development of culturally tailored and linguistically appropriate health education materials.  
  • Maintain caseload size established by the department and meet monthly outreach and engagement productivity requirements.
  • Perform other duties as assigned or volunteered in alignment with FHC mission, goals and values.
  • Prepare for and participate in any individual or team meetings/supervision as required by the department.
  • Utilize necessary web based applications and other technologies on a variety of platforms to address population management goals and departmental needs

Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a High School Diploma/GED
Candidate should have at least 1 year experience in a health service related field.
Bi-lingual- English/Spanish or Chinese, Arabic, Russian or Yiddish depending on targeted patient population.
Computer literate (Microsoft Office), telephone, fax machine, and photocopy machine skills required.

Preferred Qualifications:
Experience in community outreach and engagement.
Bachelor's degree

Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

At NYU Langone Health, we are committed to supporting our workforce and their loved ones with a comprehensive benefits and wellness package. Our offerings provide a robust support system for any stage of life, whether it's developing your career, starting a family, or saving for retirement. The support employees receive goes beyond a standard benefit offering, where employees have access to financial security benefits, a generous time-off program and employee resources groups for peer support. Additionally, all employees have access to our holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care. The benefits and wellness package is designed to allow you to focus on what truly matters. Join us and experience the extensive resources and services designed to enhance your overall quality of life for you and your family.

Family Health Centers at NYU Langone is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.

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NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $50,467.14 - $50,467.14 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient, Inc., has ranked NYU Langone No. 1 out of 118 comprehensive academic medical centers across the nation for four years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently ranked four of its clinical specialties No. 1 in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across seven inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and more than 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. The system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise. For more information, go to nyulangone.org and interact with us on LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and Indeed. More: NYU Grossman School of Medicine has trained thousands of physicians and scientists who have helped to shape the course of medical history since 1841. With more than 75 divisions of specialty care including comprehensive inpatient and outpatient programs for every stage of life, a multifaceted Research and Academic Center and the NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine focused on primary care, NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island joined NYU Langone Health as of August 1, 2019. At NYU Langone Hospitals, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health (collectively referred to as "NYU Langone"), we work collectively to achieve our mission: To care. To teach. To discover. We celebrate the inclusive excellence of the people that make us a world-class institution in patient care, education and science ("tripartite missions"). We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff and students can thrive.
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