Community Health Worker

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🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Lehigh Valley Health Network

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10,000+ employees

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Lehigh Valley Health Network is a comprehensive healthcare system that is now part of Jefferson Health, one of the top 15 not-for-profit health systems in the United States. It offers a wide range of medical services, including primary care, urgent care, and specialized institutes like the Lehigh Valley Topper Cancer Institute and the Lehigh Valley Heart and Vascular Institute. LVHN provides extensive care solutions, including video visits, second opinions, and a network of doctors and clinicians in numerous locations. It emphasizes education through residencies and fellowships and prioritizes patient-centric services such as lab testing and women's health care. The network also focuses on innovation, offering clinical trials and advanced therapies like CAR-T Cell Therapy.

📋 Description

• Acts as a bridge between health care providers, community-based providers, and individuals in the community • Promotes health, reduces disparities, and improves service delivery across the care continuum • Conducts outreach and provides health education • Helps patients navigate health systems • Identifies barriers to care and assists in changing service delivery • Builds individual and community capacity through outreach, community education, social support, and advocacy • Serves as a liaison between communities and health care systems/agencies • Provides guidance and social assistance to patients and the care team • Enhances patients' ability to communicate with healthcare providers and care team members • Provides culturally and linguistically appropriate health education using evidence-based sources • Advocates for patients, families, caregivers, and communities to obtain needed care and resources • Informs healthcare providers and care team members about barriers limiting patients' ability to follow care plans and navigate the healthcare system • Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with community-based organizations across the care continuum

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma/GED • At least one year of experience in a community based setting either as a student, volunteer, paid worker, or community resource advocate • Knowledge of local community and community resources • Functions independently as well as collaboratively • Demonstrated ability to initiate, accept, and adapt to change • Demonstrated time management and organizational skills • Accepts and recognizes differences among people • Basic computer skills • Ability to work with diverse populations including families, elderly, pregnant women, and the underserved • PA State Certified Community Health Worker - State of Pennsylvania within 1 Year • American Heart Association Basic Life Support - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire • DL - Driver's License_PA - State of Pennsylvania Upon Hire • Lift and carry 25 lbs.; frequent sitting/standing; frequent keyboard use; patient care providers may be required to perform kneeling, bending, squatting and CPR • Bilingual English/Spanish (written & oral) preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Day Shift • Monday - Friday; 8-4:30p; Flexibility as needed

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