Community Health Worker - Cottage Health

Join the Cottage Center for Population Health team as a Community Health Worker (CHW). The CHW serves resource for patients, their families, and community members. This position provides culturally appropriate health education, resource navigation, referral, support, and care coordination for Cottage Health patients and vulnerable populations in the community. The CHW is responsible for completing basic health and social needs assessments, providing patient referral and follow-up, completing digital documentation, and facilitating verbal and written communication for patients and their caregivers. Lived experience and an understanding of the local community challenges with the populations being served is essential. This is a grant funded position.

The Cottage Center for Population health works to improve health and wellness - focusing on equity for the most vulnerable - in our hospitals and our community. Our team works in partnership with our community members, partners, medical and service providers, and hospitals. More information regarding the exciting work Population Health is driving can be seen here:

https://www.cottagehealth.org/population-health/

QUALIFICATIONS:

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

Minimum: High School Diploma, GED or equivalent education from another country

Preferred: Completed Community Health Worker or Promotora/a training or certificate

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Minimum: Valid California driver's license, reliable transportation, and insurance coverage as required by California state law.

Preferred: CHW, Promotora/a, or medical assistant certification preferred

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS

Minimum: Cultural competency and knowledge of targeted Hispanic/Latinx communities and lower-income communities in Santa Barbara County. Bilingual in Spanish and English. Ability to write, read, and speak in English for patient documentation. Ability to type and navigate on a computer

YEARS OF RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE

Minimum: Lived experience in the Hispanic/Latinx community.

Preferred: One year of experience working in a community health or related service, including volunteer or internship positions in a community setting.
Cottage Health is a leading acute care hospital system, located on the central coast of California, widely known for our superior patient care, innovation, medical research and education. Our health system operates primarily in Santa Barbara, Ca, since 1888, and consists of three acute care hospitals, a Rehabilitation Hospital, multiple clinics and a multi-site Urgent Care system. Our mission is to serve the central coast communities with excellence, integrity, and compassion. Every day we touch thousands of lives in many different ways, resolute in our mission to put patients first. We take pride in helping our patients get back to living their lives - in the places they love.

Cottage Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Cottage Health applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, age, gender, transgender, gender expression and identity, national origin, ancestry, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, military status or any other classification protected by law. This policy applies to all aspects of the relationship between Cottage Health and an applicant or employee. Cottage Health is committed to upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. We strive to cultivate an environment where exceptional people bring diverse perspectives and find belonging, support and connection to their work.

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Population Health, Full-Time, 8 Hour, Day Shift