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Job Title: Community Health Representative (CHR) III
Salary: $23.04 $28.72 per hour Non-exempt DOE
Status: Permanent, Full-Time
Hrs. /WK: Forty (40) hours per week
Department: Health Services
Job Location: Tucson, Arizona
Nature of Work:
Embraces and Embodies Tucson Indian Centers (TICs) Identity Documents
Mission, Purpose
and Vision Statements; Core Values; Guiding Principles and Strategic
Goals. The Community
Health Representative (CHR) III is responsible for delivering and
modeling exemplary CHR
services, training other CHRs, and performing medical assistant duties
such as recording patient
vital signs, demonstrating office skills, obtaining baseline physical
data, and supporting the
efficient operation of the medical clinic. This role also provides
maintenance services for
laboratory and assisting medical staff as needed, addressing COVID-19
and other health needs
within the Tucson urban American Indian community.
Essential Functions:
1. Patient education, outreach, and case management: Educate and
connect patients to
available health resources; conduct outreach to Tucson American Indian
community and
engaging them in TIC Health Services; case management and coordination;
patient care
and monitoring; perform home visits as appropriate or as needed by care
team referral,
performing evaluation and providing services within the scop of the CHR.
2. Health education activities: Delivers learning experiences on health
topics to provide
patients with knowledge, skills and tools to live healthier lives.
Delivers education on the
importance of preventative care and overall health on how it reduces the
risk for disease
and disabilities through direct patient care.
3. Coordination of care: Organizing patient care activities such as
specialty referrals and
sharing information among all participants concerned with a patients
care to achieve
safer and more effective care. This includes but is not limited to
Specialty Referrals,
External and Internal Referrals, Closing Care gaps, care team panel
monitoring and
management with respect to access to screening and prevention services,
and lab work.
4. Training: Provide training for other CHRs on outreach,
engagement/recruitment, home
visits, health education, EMR utilization, and other related CHR
services.
5. Partnership coordination: Assists with partnership coordination for
CHR and primary
care/Behavioral Health services, such as attending Pima County CHR
partnership
meetings and Purchase Referred Care.
6. Medical Assistant Duties: Including but not limited to: Interview
patients and record
their medical history. Measure patients vital signs, help physicians
with patient exams,
give patient immunization and injections/medications as directed by
physician,
phlebotomy duties, performs CLIA waived tests, responding to provider
tasks for patient
care, managing laboratory and clinical inventory, utilize medical
equipment such as
EKGs/glucometers, prescription coordination, etc.
7. Other duties: Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
MA Certificate or State Certification
Medical Terminology
Phlebotomy
Knowledge of social determinants of health, including conditions in
which people are
born, grow, work, live, and age
Skills in excellent customer service, including professional and
courteous communication
Ability to actively and professionally engage local American Indians of
all ages in
program services through outreach activities, including utilizing
virtual/
telecommunication outreach methods.
Ability to identify specific needs of clients and advocate for patients,
including providing
continuity and clarity between provider and patient.
Ability to operate basic medical equipment including thermometers, blood
pressure
machine, accu-check or glucose machines, and other related equipment.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Ability to utilize and assist patients/clients with electronic
communication devices
Ability to function in a proactive manner and with limited supervision.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Knowledge of lo