Community Health Worker P / T - Black Health Center of Excellence

Community Health Worker - Part Time

Black Health Center of Excellence

Agency Description :

San Francisco Community Health Center (formally API Wellness Center) is a multicultural health services, education, research, and policy organization. We transform lives by advancing health, wellness, and equality. We strengthen the well-being and lead under-served communities of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and immigration statuses toward justice and health. Founded in 1987 as an all-volunteer, community-based response to the AIDS crisis in communities of color, we are an anchor-organization for San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, and we also lead regional, statewide, and national programming. We believe that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care.

About You :

• You focus and center your work around giving a high level of service.
• You are empathetic in responding to any situation with compassion and curiosity.
• You are driven by your own internal integrity as well as that of the agency.
• You have a justice and equity mind-set.
• You feel that everyone deserves dignity and respect.
• You consistently pay attention to details.
• You collaborate well in a diverse and interdisciplinary workplace.

Program Description :

The Black Health Center of Excellence (BHCoE) provides high quality, multi-disciplinary, culturally competent health care to African Americans living with HIV / AIDS who are also living in poverty and for whom mental health disorders, substance abuse, incarceration, or housing status create barriers to care. The BHCoE strives to reduce harm, improve health status and quality of life for clients, and integrate multiple health professions into a team-based, multi-disciplinary approach to care.

Position Summary :

This position works 20-hours / week .

The Community Health Worker is a trusted member of and / or a person who has a close understanding of the community served in the delivery of health-related services through either working directly with providers or their partner organizations. This trusting relationship with the community enables CHW's to serve as a liaison between health and social services and the community to facilitate members' access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of services delivered. CHWs build individual and community capacity by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy. CHWs at SFCHC will have the opportunity to gain robust knowledge around services tailored for People living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA), the Trans Community, Transitional-aged youth, people experiencing homelessness (PEH), and active substance users.

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EEOC Statement :

San Francisco Community Health Center is an equal opportunity employer committed to identifying and developing the skills and leadership of people from diverse backgrounds. San Francisco Community Health Center does not discriminate based on age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, disability status, gender identity, HIV status, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.