Population Health Community Health Worker - (HYBRID in Wood County, WV)

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Key Responsibilities

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Requirements Summary

EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE: 1. High School diploma or equivalent 2. Valid Driver’s License. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION, CERTIFICATION, AND/OR LICENSURE: 1.

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About the Role

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The Community Health Worker serves as a trusted community-based liaison, navigator, and member support resource. This role supports patients and members by conducting in-home and community-based wellness visits, completing health risk assessments and follow-up, identifying barriers to care, connecting individuals to appropriate health care and social needs resources, and reinforcing care plan goals.

The Community Health Worker works closely with members of the interdisciplinary care team to support whole-person care. This position helps patients and members navigate the health care system, address social drivers of health, improve engagement in preventive and chronic disease care, support medication adherence, and promote successful transitions of care after hospital or emergency department discharge.

This role requires strong communication skills, comfort working independently in the community, the ability to build trust with diverse populations, and sound judgment in identifying and escalating concerns appropriately.

Requirements

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1. High School diploma or equivalent

2. Valid Driver’s License.

1. Completion of a Community Health Worker, Community Healthcare Worker, Community Health Education Resource Person, or similar curriculum within one year of hire.

2. CPR certification.

3. Medical Assistant, Certified Nursing Assistant, Patient Care Technician, Health Coach, Peer Support, or other health care/community health-related certification.

1. Prior experience in a health care, community health, public health, social service, case management, care coordination, patient navigation, or related setting.

2. Experience working directly with patients, members, families, or community members to address barriers to care.

3. Experience with electronic health records or other documentation systems.

4. Experience supporting patients with chronic conditions, preventive care needs, medication adherence, transitions of care, or social drivers of health.

5. Experience conducting outreach, home visits, community-based visits, or field-based work.

Responsibilities

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1. Capable of independent discretion/decision making, manages stress appropriately and strong organizational and interpersonal skills for working within the healthcare team and with clients.

2. Effective oral and written communication

3. Basic Computer skills

4. High level of interpersonal skills, problem solving and strong analytic abilities

We are excited to welcome five Community Health Workers (CHWs) to our growing team!

CHWs will be based within primary care clinics in Wood County, West Virginia, and will travel throughout the county to meet with patients in their homes and communities.

We are seeking motivated, community-focused individuals who enjoy working directly with people and are excited to help develop and shape this new initiative. This role provides a unique opportunity to build relationships with patients, connect them with needed resources and services, and help address barriers that may impact their health and well-being.

United States of America (Non-Exempt)

415 SYSTEM Population Health Management

West Virginia University Health System and its subsidiaries (collectively "WVUHS") is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. WVUHS strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. All WVUHS employees, other workers, and representatives are prohibited from engaging in unlawful discrimination. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, discipline, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment.