Community Health Worker - Brooklyn, United States - NYU Langone Health

NYU Langone Health
NYU Langone Health
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Brooklyn, United States

3 weeks ago

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NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn is a full-service teaching hospital and Level I trauma center located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The hospital is central to a comprehensive network of affiliated ambulatory and outpatient practices, and serves as NYU Langone Health's anchor for healthcare access, growth, and delivery in the entire borough.

At NYU Langone Health, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental values. We strive to be a place where our exceptionally talented faculty, staff, and students of all identities can thrive. We embrace diversity, inclusion, and individual skills, ideas, and knowledge.

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Position Summary:

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Community Health Worker - M - F - 12p - 8p - Required
- (English/Spanish)


Responsibilities:


  • Attend trainings and/or webinars related to behavioral health as assigned
  • Determine patients care transitions needs via screening in various care settings (Emergency Room, hospital, at home, etc). Create transitional plan, when needed, with goals designed to address medical, behavioral health, and social determinants to improve health outcomes.
  • Assist patient with accessing a full range of medical, behavioral health, chemical dependency, psychosocial, and community services including referral to selfhelp groups and community organizations.
  • Advocate for patients when barriers to care exist including language and literacy barriers, access to transportation, problems with insurance coverage, child care problems, appointment scheduling conflict, etc.
  • Provide office and community based support services to patients (E.g. Patient escorts to medical appointments, medical appointment reminders, assistance with obtaining medications from pharmacies, etc.)
  • Assist patients and their families with benefits, entitlements, and housing as well as any other identified needs that impact patients physical health and emotional wellbeing.
  • Maintain electronic records and compile statistical data in accordance with the departments standards. Complete documentation within required time frames.
  • Conduct outreach efforts in the community to engage high risk patients in case management services.
  • Maintain caseload size established by the department and meet monthly outreach and engagement productivity requirements.
  • Assist Case/Care Manager with coordination of patient care in the community, when the patient is hospitalized, and during transition from hospital to home.
  • Assist Care/Case Management staff or take lead in conducting previsit planning and hospital discharge phone outreach (Program Dependent).
  • Performs other duties as assigned or volunteered in alignment with NYULMC mission, goals and values.
  • Prepare for and participate in any individual or team meetings/supervision as required by the department.

Minimum Qualifications:

To qualify you must have a High School Diploma/GED
Bi-lingual

  • English/Spanish or Chinese, Arabic, Russian or Yiddish depending on targeted patient population.
Computer literate (Microsoft Office), telephone, fax machine, and photocopy machine skills required.


Preferred Qualifications:


Experience working with patients who are diagnosed with mental health, substance abuse, and/or chronic health conditions in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, including home based visits.

NYU Langone Hospital - Brooklyn provides its staff with far more than just a place to work.

Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.

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The salary range for the role is $ $ hourly Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need.

The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.

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