Community Health Advocate

1 week ago


Houston, Texas, United States Harris County (TX) Full time
Job Title: Community Health Worker

Job Summary:

Harris County Public Health is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Community Health Worker to join our team. As a Community Health Worker, you will play a critical role in supporting our outreach activities and serving as a liaison to educate, promote, and connect community members to all HCPH programs/services.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct diverse outreach, education, and community coordination activities, including canvassing local businesses/organizations, attending community events, and giving presentations.
  • Serve as a subject-matter expert to meet outreach objectives for HCPH programs and recommend changes to improve outreach strategies.
  • Maintain knowledge/skills to educate, promote, and connect community members to all HCPH programs/services.
  • Track, collect, and submit outreach service data on a daily and weekly basis.
  • Build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and organizations to create and sustain innovative partnerships.
  • Responsible for initiating referrals to HCPH programs/services, while ensuring community members' confidentiality.
  • Create and deliver educational presentations/workshops on public health topics for diverse target audiences.

Requirements:

  • High School diploma or GED equivalency.
  • Intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Office.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
  • Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and foster teamwork in a diverse environment.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive information.

Benefits:

Harris County offers a competitive benefits program, including comprehensive group health and related benefits plan as well as defined benefit retirement plan.

Work Environment:

This job operates in both field and office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.

Physical Demands:

This is a largely stationary role, however does require field work and many duties would require the ability to lift up to 20 pounds and bending and standing for periods at a time.

Work Location:

Harris County Public Health - Office of Communication, Education & Engagement: 7457 Harwin Drive Houston Texas, 77036



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