Family Wellness Assistant - AmeriCorps
Community Health Center

Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Healthy Communities is CHC's Public Health AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an AmeriCorps Member role - Family Wellness Assistant - that supports the Family Wellness Centers (FWC) in Middletown and New Britain, but will be based in Middletown. The position will have a focus in birth to five programming.

Terms & Program Benefits:

• 8 months of service starting January 8, 2023 through August 30, 2024
• Serve a minimum of 35 hours a week for a total of 1200 hours during service term
• $13,200 stipend over the course of 9 months, paid in bi-weekly increments
• An education award of $4,826.50 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff or volunteer position.

This is the opportunity for you if you:

• Possess a caring attitude and personable demeanor
• Are creative and enthusiastic to help others
• Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail
• Have an interest in working with children under the age of five and their families
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team
• As a Family Wellness Assistant for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:
• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.
• Provide individual patient health education and care coordination to clients to encourage scheduling and completing routine care appointments.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient's electronic health record.
• Establish and maintain a marketing and social media campaign that promotes all Family Wellness Center programs.
• Research successful new and existing community outreach opportunities that can be leveraged to improve client's access to care.
• Participate in and conduct outreach and engagement activities within CHC and in the surrounding community to promote enrollment in services.
• Create and disseminate flyers and other promotional materials for FWC programming to the community and community providers/agencies.
• Develop program surveys to gather feedback regarding customer satisfaction, areas to improve, and gain new programming ideas.
• Serve at monthly diaper bank programs in Hartford, Middletown, and New Britain to establish and maintain a central system that allows easy inventory, tracking and distribution of diapers.
• Create and maintain a system to organize and manage the Reach out Read books (used for CHC Literacy Program for birth to 5 during well child visits) that allows for ease to stock books, inventory, track and distribute main site book orders.
• Develop and implement, with support of FWC Coordinator, new FWC programming to include playgroups for children and their families (ie, reading playgroup, movement group like "Yoga").
• Gather and compile database of community resources related to children and families, and provide electronic access to FWC and CHC staff.
• Actively participant in all FWC, CHC, and partner meetings.

Qualifications:

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state

Preferred:

• Associate's degree in public health, social work related field
• Knowledge and understanding of community resources
• Experience in coordination of services, advocacy and community outreach with vulnerable populations
• Experience in birth to 5 programming
• Bilingual English/Spanish

Organization Information:

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country's most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare. CHC is designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA, respectively. We deliver more than 600,000 patient visits per year from primary care hubs and community clinics across the state of CT, all connected by technology and common standards for quality. We employ several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers who are engaged in practice, teaching, and research. Our Weitzman Institute is devoted to research and practice transformation and is recognized around the country as one of the premier research institutes focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. In addition, the organization has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from the original pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and ConferMed.

Location:
Community Health Center of Middletown
City:
Middletown
State:
Connecticut

Time Type:
Part time

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