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Trinity Health Community Health Worker in Grand Rapids, Michigan

Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Community Health Worker providing home-, community-, and office-based support to pregnant women experiencing chronic health conditions and barriers to accessing health care.

Great opportunity for a Community Health Worker to work in an organization that focuses on treating the whole person, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Be Remarkable!

As a Community Health Worker, you will be assessing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating actions to meet with clients health and human services needs, so that they can adopt health behaviors leading to self-sufficiency. You will be coordinating and providing client support that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and client centered.

What Perks and Benefits Can You Look Forward to?

  • Day-1 Benefits. Low cost benefits, including medical, dental, vision, 403B retirement and more.

  • Paid holidays and generous Paid Time Off (PTO)

  • Up to 18 days of PTO your first year!

  • Day Shift Monday – Friday. No Holidays or Weekends

  • Tuition reimbursement

  • Career Development Services

  • Competency based increases.

  • Watch a video about being a Medical Assistant at Trinity Health!

  • https://vimeo.com/639105949

Requirements for working as a Community Health Worker

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.

  • Bachelor’s degree in a human services field.

  • Any combination of experience with health, education, and social services for a minimum of 1 year.

  • Basic understanding of health conditions, such as HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, COPD, Asthma, CHF, CVD

  • Bilingual Spanish preferred.

What Community Health Workers will do:

  • Communicating to clients the purposes of the program and showing them, the impact it may have on them.

  • Conducting intake interviews, enrolling and or referring individuals into community programs.

  • Assisting health care providers involved in the clients care, to ensure clients understanding of care plans.

  • Supporting the development, implantation, and execution of care plans.

  • Monthly reporting, maintaining electronic client files, including updated release of information, assessments, and other medical documents.

  • Travels extensively to client homes, community locations, agencies, and other outreach destinations.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, Catholic healthcare systems in the nation. Built on the foundation of our Mission and Core Values, we integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion in all that we do. Our colleagues have different lived experiences, customs, abilities, and talents. Together, we become our best selves. A diverse and inclusive workforce provides the most accessible and equitable care for those we serve. Trinity Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other status protected by law.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.

EOE including disability/veteran

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