Community Health Worker - Homeless Shelter

Essential Duties

• Help clients understand their health condition(s) and develop strategies to improve their health and wellbeing
• Facilitate communication and client empowerment in interactions with healthcare/social service systems
• Serve as a liaison between health/social services and the community to facilitate access to quality services and health resources
• Assist clients with insurance applications or other paperwork and provide informal counselling, support, and follow up with them as needed
• Assist clients to build understanding and social capital to support healthier behaviors and lifestyle choices
• Work with healthcare and social service systems to help them be culturally relevant and responsive to their service population
• Provide health service screenings such as blood pressure monitoring, coaching diabetes monitoring, observe medication consumption, and medication counts
• Collect data and report findings to healthcare providers

Other Duties

• Any other duties required by supervisor
• Evaluate emergency situations and handles them when the Supervisor is not in the area
• Maintains confidentiality of all data, including guests, employee, and operational data

Education/Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED – CHW Certification preferred with one or more years of experience
• Must agree with and sign LifePath’s Statement of Christian faith and be able to share that faith and knowledge with staff and guests
• Must have excellent and demonstrated interpersonal relations and both written and oral communication skills
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, computer input, and database management

Other Factors to Consider

• Ability to walk, stand and/or sit for long periods of time, reach, lift, bend, kneel, stoop, climb stairs, push, and pull items weighing 25 pounds or less; manual dexterity; auditory and visual skills; ability to follow written and oral instructions and procedures.
• Excellent reading and writing skills; typing/computer usage; proficient interpersonal relations and communicative skills; ability to follow written and oral instructions and procedures;
• Possess a valid Pennsylvania Driver’s License

Working Conditions

• Inside and outside environment