Community Health Worker
1 month ago
Job Summary: We are seeking a Community Health Worker to join our team in addressing the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles County. As a Community Health Worker, you will play a vital role in facilitating relations between our agency and the community, providing essential services to clients, and advocating for their access to departmental and community resources.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate relations between the agency and the community by communicating agency policies and programs to clients, patients, family members, and community residents.
- Provide essential services to clients, including referrals to appropriate supportive agencies and emergency shelter arrangements.
- Advocate for client/patient access to departmental and community resources.
- Assist clients, patients, family members, and caregivers in obtaining and completing application forms for benefits and services.
- Take medical, mental health, family, social, and employment histories and assist clients and patients in completing necessary forms.
- Inform pregnant teenagers and their families of available medical, mental health, and social services, adoption agencies, and prenatal care providers.
- Facilitate client development of independent living skills by conducting support groups in subjects such as housekeeping, cooking, shopping, household budgeting, use of public transportation, and attendance to personal grooming and hygiene.
- Provide services to chronically ill children and their families and refer them to various doctors or clinics.
- Screen referrals and place clients in proper groups for counseling.
- Coordinate certification of job applicants for Model Neighborhood areas.
- Assist in research projects by monitoring the completion of questionnaires, conducting interviews, and collecting basic data.
- Assist professional staff in the supervision of juveniles at a detention facility.
- Perform clinical duties such as taking patients' temperature and measuring height and weight.
- Coordinate and provide periodic tutoring services and/or linkage services for a literacy program for delinquent, foster, and at-risk youth.
Requirements:
- Six months of full-time experience working with the public or with community groups performing duties such as interviewing clients or patients concerning health or social service matters, answering questions, and providing information about health, mental health, and social services to clients or patients.
- Valid California Class C Driver License or the ability to utilize an alternative method of transportation to carry out job-related essential functions.
- PHYSICAL CLASS: 2 - Light.
Additional Information:
Under the emergency order, applicants who meet the requirements may be hired for an initial period of up to 90 days, with an opportunity for permanent County employment. Before the end of your initial work period, you will be assessed on your work performance. This assessment will be weighted 100%. Those who successfully pass the assessment will be considered for permanent appointment.
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