Community Health Worker III - Homeless

Company: Providence Health & Services
Location: Apple Valley
Posted on: May 19, 2023

Job Description:

Community Health Worker III - Healthy Communities at St. Mary Medical Center



Location: Apple Valley, CA


Work Schedule: Part time - 40 Biweekly hours


Shift: 8 hour, Days (Variable)



The Community Health Worker III (CHW-III) is responsible for helping community residents and Medical Center patients and their families to navigate and access community services, other resources, and adopt healthy behaviors.



Required qualifications:

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• Education to meet certification, license or registration requirement
  
  
• Valid Driver's License
  
  
• 1 year experience in a combination Community Health Worker I and II position, or 2 years related community outreach, enrollment, education or other community health administrative experience
  
  
  
  
  
  Preferred qualifications:
  
  
  
  
  
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  • 2 years working in similar field as a community health worker, peer specialist, peer advocate, lived experience of homelessness or a similar role preferred and/or volunteering in the community highly preferred
    
    
    
    
    
    Our best-in-class benefits (https://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits/) are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission (https://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/mission-core-values/) of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.
    
    
    
    St. Mary Medical Center (SMMC) is an acute care hospital with 213 beds and over 1,750 employees making it one of the region's largest employers serving communities of the High Desert. The facility was constructed in 1956 and joined the St. Joseph Health System in 1992.
    
    This facility has the only Neonatal Care Unit in the High Desert Accredited by California Children Services and has been granted approval as a Special Hospital with the California Children's Services Community Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. St. Mary was accredited as a primary Stroke Receiving Center in 2018, the only stroke-receiving center in the High Desert.
    
    The Services and Clinical Specialties offered at this Hospital are Diabetes Education, Emergency Services, Heart and Vascular Services, Imaging Services, Rehabilitation Services, Respiratory Services, Robotic Surgery Services, Surgical Services, Women & Children's Services and Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine.
    
    
    Company: St. Mary Medical Center
    
    Category: Community Services
    
    Req ID: R356230
    

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