Remote Community Health Worker

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Accompany Health

📍Remote - United States

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Summary

Join Accompany Health as a Community Health Worker (CHW) to serve a critical role on our integrated care team, building trusting relationships with patients and empowering them to live healthy, dignified, independent lives.

Requirements

  • Resident of the Detroit Metro area with an understanding of local resources and experience working with patients to access them
  • Experience working with medically complex, elderly, or frail populations
  • Must have a valid unrestricted driver's license and access to an insured vehicle for daily use as driving is an essential function of the role

Responsibilities

  • Building trusting, longitudinal relationships with our patients through in-home, virtual, and community-based visits
  • Collaborating with our clinicians by joining their medical visits and helping create a patient-centered care plan
  • Conducting an initial assessment for all patients to identify their goals and needs
  • Connecting patients to local resources and social services, for example helping them apply to SNAP benefits, accompanying them to a senior center, or researching community support groups
  • Supporting patients with chronic disease to take charge of their health, manage their medications, and stay out of the hospital
  • Helping patients navigate the healthcare system by accompanying them to doctor’s appointments, visiting them when they’re in the hospital, and helping coordinate their appointments
  • Providing health coaching to help patients with behavior change like exercise, smoking cessation, or healthy eating
  • Working with your team to build and keep up to date a resource directory of local and national resources (i.e., transportation, housing, financial, food, medication discounts, support groups)
  • Documenting all care and patient communication in our electronic medical record
  • Attend regular team huddles and case conferences

Preferred Qualifications

  • Community Health Worker Certification or an Associates degree or higher in health sciences or related field
  • 3+ years’ work experience in CHW  or case management role
  • Experience providing home visits and/or telehealth
  • Experience navigating hospitals and health insurances
  • Proficiency with electronic medical records or other documentation software

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