Community Health Worker at Nemours in Middletown, Delaware

Job Description:

Job Description

Nemours is seeking a Community Health Worker. This Position is part of the CHW Asthma Initiative.

The Community Health Worker (CHW) is a grant funded 3 year position. They will promote the health and well-being of patients and families by providing the re-education of and coaching to families on disease/health management with a focus on asthma and asthma management. The CHW will conduct home visits and healthy home assessments while working with families to promote health and asthma trigger-free households. The CHW will provide case management of non-medical needs to a caseload of high-needs families through regular and ongoing communication ensuring engagement of and a collaborative approach to working with them through an integrated approach to care management and community outreach.

As a priority, CHW activity acts to promote, maintain, and improve the health of patients and their families, provide social support and informal counseling and advocate for individuals and community health needs. The CHW is responsible for: advocating, facilitating, and organizing access to health and social services with/for an identified community to improve the health and well-being of community members. Community outreach, such as calls to the home, home visits and health screenings will be required. The CHW works in the community as well as visiting families in their homes, through virtual visits or in provider offices.

Essential Functions-

Qualifications-

High School Diploma

Minimum of one year of prior experience as a Community Health Worker or related experience providing education to individuals on health management.
Expectations to include,

• Attend CHW Core Competency training program
• Become certified as an asthma educator within 3 months of hire
• Attend and complete motivational interviewing training
• Attend basic skills for working with smokers training