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Job Title:Community Health Worker
About Acenda Integrated Health
Acenda Integrated Health provides 100+ behavioral health programs, including mental health services, crisis care, substance use recovery, family therapy, maternal and pediatric support, and residential programs across New Jersey. Our team enjoys competitive benefits, work-life balance, professional development, and team engaging events. Acenda is recognized as a multi-year Top Workplace by USA Today and The Inquirer and a Top Workplace Culture award winner for Work-Life Balance as well as Joint Commission accredited and certified by MHCA and the New Jersey Alliance for Children, Youth, and Families. Join #TeamAcenda and make a lasting impact.
Job Overview
The Community Health Worker is part of Rural Health Connect South Jersey (RHCSJ), a community-based prevention program with the goal of identifying and engaging unisured and underinsured rural residents of Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties. The RHCSJ team will conduct health screenings and connect individuals and families to preventative physical health, behavioral health, and family support services. Through community outreach and engagement, the program intends to improve early identification of health risks through screenings, increase access to services, and reduce unmet health needs among this population.
As an integrated health organization, Acenda values the use of evidence-based practice or EBP's.
Key Responsibilities: - Assist in conducting direct outreach and presenting program services to rural communities, local churches and other organizations that serve rural areas in Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Salem Counties.
- Identify, engage and connect with uninsured and underinsured individuals and families to conduct health screenings using CommCare platform.
- Provide resources and linkages to those uninsured and underinsured individuals and families who have physical, behavioral and social health needs.
- Help to organize and host community forums on preventative healthcare, social determinants of health, risk factors and protective factors
- Complete required client documentation and follow ups within defined timeframes
- Work collaboratively with Community Care Partners and external stakeholders to expand resources available to community members.
- Meet regularly with the CHW Project Supervisor and attend meetings with Local Public Health designated staff, when applicable
Requirements: - New Community Health Workers (CHWs) will be required to attend the New Jersey Department of Health, Colette Lamothe Galette Institute training and coursework
- Must have shared life experiences in the communities they serve with shared values to support as well as become an intermediary link between health/social services and the community in order to facilitate access to services and improve the service
delivery system. - Understand the impact of cultural diversity, cultural humility and cultural responsiveness training
- Promote an environment of care, which is inclusive and respectful of every internal and external stakeholders
- Effective problem-solving, organizational, and time management skills
- Decision-making, priority setting, and work delegation abilities
- Administrative/Technological skills, including Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access), and Outlook
- Excellent knowledge of available community services and resources
- Ability to work independently or in groups, meet strict deadlines, and manage or direct group activities
- Ability to attend evening and weekend meetings
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Comfortable with public speaking and facilitating events in the community
- Maintain a high level of confidentiality
- Excellent customer-focused interpersonal skills to interact effectively with health care practitioners, the interdisciplinary health care team, community agencies, patients, and families with diverse opinions, values, and cultural ideals
- Must have a Valid NJ drivers' license and own an insured car; position requires some travel within the counties
- Must be able to work legally in the United States
Education/Training:- High-school degree or equivalency (GED) required
- Associate's or Bachelor's degree in related field preferred
- Prior and relevant professional experience working in the community
- Internships may be substituted as work experience
- Proof of co