Job Description
Role: Community Health Advocate
Location: New York, NY
Duration: 13+ Weeks
Guaranteed Hours: 37.5 Hours
Hours per day: 7.5
Shift: 8:30am-5:00pm
Pay Rate: Local - $18.00-$21.00/Hour
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Provides direct service to patients selecting service types compatible with assessment and identified adherence goals
- Identifies, selects, accesses, and makes referrals to appropriate community resources
- Participates in case conferences, staff meetings
- Maintains appropriate documentation as defined by hospital policies and procedures and program requirements
- Sets appropriate priorities and responds to follow-up situations in acceptable time period
- Demonstrates ability to make decisions, solve clinical problems and manage resources
- Demonstrates sensitivity to patient's cultural background
- Understands the pertinent principles, concepts, values and relationships associated with a given task
- Demonstrates knowledge of HIV treatment. Demonstrates sensitivity to patient's spiritual needs
- Assists in data collection efforts for evaluation and research purposes. Retrieves CLIMACS data on patients as needed.
Skill:
- MS Office, Customer Service, Project coordination experience working in a health-related project preferred.
- Facility with case management.
- Bilingual (Spanish/English) preferred.
- Experience in HIV/AIDS preferred
Education: BA degree preferred or four-five years professional experience
Job Tags
Local area, Shift work,