Community Health Worker I
Medical College of Wisconsin
- Milwaukee, WI
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Responsible for establishing trusting relationships with patients and their families while providing general support and encouragement.
- Follow-up with patients via phone calls, home visits and visits to other settings where patients can be found. Assist patients with completing applications and registration forms.
- Provide health education and assist with health information to ensure client knows about their medical condition.
- Provide referrals for services to community agencies as appropriate.
- Assist clients in accessing health related services, including but not limited to: obtaining a medical home, providing instruction on appropriate use of the medical home, overcoming barriers to obtaining needed medical care and social services.
- Help patients connect with transportation resources and give appointment reminders in special circumstances.
- Advocate for patients access to appropriate linguistic services and help access to interpretation services
- Exhibit excellent working relations with patients, visitors and staff.
- Work closely with medical providers to help ensure that patients with special medical needs have comprehensive and coordinated care.
- Identify and apply appropriate role definition and skilled boundaries
- Complete contract data requirements as assigned
- Provide/Organize culturally appropriate health education sessions and information
- Experience in community outreach.
- Working knowledge of various integrated systems of care in the community.
- Good communication skills, such as listening well, and using language appropriately.
- Successful experience in managing health of self/family OR experience in managing complex medical condition of self/family in the U.S. setting.
- Demonstrates strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Connected to community serving.
- Persistent, creative and resourceful
- Emotional maturity
- Empathetic, caring and compassionate
- Open minded/non-judgmental,
- Honest, respectful, patient
- Friendly, outgoing, sociable
- Dependable, responsible, reliable
8-5pm, M-FridayPosition Requirements:Minimum Qualifications:
Appropriate experience may be substituted for education on an equivalent basis.Minimum education: High school or equivalent
Minimum experience: No experience required
Essential function: Bilingual, fluent speaker of a target refugee language (Rohingya/Burmese)#LI-NK1Why MCW?
- Outstanding Healthcare Coverage, including but not limited to Health, Vision, and Dental. Along with Flexible Spending options
- 403B Retirement Package
- Competitive Vacation and Paid Holidays offered
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
The Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students, as well as ensuring equal educational opportunity, employment, and access to services, programs, and activities, without regard to an individual's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristic, or military status. Employees, students, applicants or other members of the MCW community (including but not limited to vendors, visitors, and guests) may not be subjected to harassment that is prohibited by law or treated adversely or retaliated against based upon a protected characteristic..