Community Health Navigator - Danbury Hospital CT Early Detection Grant

Description

Title : Community Health Navigator - Danbury Hospital CT Early Detection Grant. Part time.32 hours per week, 8 hour shifts (4 days per week), 8 : 30am - 5 : 00pm, Monday - Friday. Bilingual Required . Grant funded.

Summary : Provides education and outreach activities to individuals in eligible priority populations (low-income, uninsured or under-insured women aged 40-64 years) promoting enrollment in Affordable Care Act (ACA) market-based insurance plans. Encourages utilization of early detection and prevention services available under the ACA.

Responsibilities :

1. Ensures each applicant is assessed for and referred to available insurance program before CT Early Detection & Prevention Program (CEDPP) services are delivered. Assesses for gaps in coverage or other financial barriers that deter individuals from engaging in early detection and prevention services offered under their plan liable insurance programs before any CEDPP program services are delivered.

2. Ensures full compliance with HIPAA by protecting all personally identifying information associated with a program participant. Obtain name and address ONLY when a community member is ready and willing to receive program services.

3. Completes all required screening and assessment baseline components to ensure a valid and complete assessment can be documented for comparison with a future rescreening encounter. This includes physical measurements, completion of a behavior assessment questionnaire and blood test results as specified by Connecticut Early Detection and Prevention Program (CEDPP) policies and procedures.

4. Concludes screening and assessment baseline by delivering risk reduction counseling as prescribed by CEDPP policies and procedures. Supports each individual to identify and implement strategies and goals to health risk behaviors. Provide special support options to participants identified with uncontrolled hypertension by engaging them in blood pressure self-management and medication therapy management support options to establish long-term hypertension control.

5. For individuals choosing to make changes in their health risk behaviors, conduct a readiness to change assessment and engage the participant to utilize clinical-community linkages and lifestyle programs identified as part of ongoing community resource scans. Provides health coaching and motivational support to participants on a routine basis to ensure active and engaged participation of their own health outcomes in the promotion of self-care skills and other follow-up care.

6. Provides follow-up with participants from initial identification through closure via phone calls, home visits and visits to other settings where participants can be found. Communicate and work closely with medical provider and clinical personnel to ensure that participants have integrated, comprehensive and coordinated care.

7. Attends regular DPH staff meetings & DH staff meetings, trainings and other meetings as needed to ensure a fluid and effective team-based approach to patient-centered care.

8. Fulfills all compliance responsibilities related to the position.

9. Performs other duties as assigned.

Other Information :

Education : High School Diploma or equivalent

Required : Cultural sensitivity, good listening skills, respectful, critical thinking skills, resourceful, tactful, good oral and writing skills. Change Agent - involves participants actively in assuming the responsibility for their own learning, objective - unbiased and fair in decision making. Drivers license required, verifiable good driving record and reliable transportation.

Minimum Experience : three years

Desired : Associate's Degree preferred. Bilingual, basic computer knowledge, good decision making skills. Community Health Worker training.

Salary Range : $18.97 - $27.00 hourly (Pay rate per years of relative experience)