Community Health Worker

Job Summary: 

The Community Health Worker provides case management services, including in-home counseling, education, referrals, and advocacy to families with children in the Merrimack Valley Lead Poisoning Prevention Program service area. The Community Health Worker reaches families, tenants, and property owners in targeted high-risk communities within the Merrimack Valley Lead Poisoning Prevention Program service area by participating in outreach activities to increase awareness about lead screening, preventive de-leading, and de-leading financial assistance.

Essential Functions/Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct home visits to provide temporary hazard reduction and case management services.
• Complete client intakes in a timely manner and make appropriate service referrals, including referrals for inspection/"determinator" services and de-leading financial assistance.
• Collaborate with the MDPH CLPPP staff/team members to ensure optimal case management.
• Participate in community education/outreach, with a focus on high-risk communities within the Merrimack Valley Lead Poisoning Prevention Program service area, by participating in community events, dropping off educational materials to appropriate organizations, and completing other activities as assigned.
• Create informational packets and mail to clients as needed.
• Maintain timely and accurate case records and a detailed list of outreach activities completed each month.
• Attend meetings, trainings, and workshops as needed.
• Collect data and report monthly to program manager.
• Perform other related duties as requested by the Program Manager.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Associate degree in a related field preferred (e.g. public health, human services, or similar), or two or more years of work experience required. High school diploma or GED required.
• Prior home visiting, community advocacy, and/or outreach experience is strongly preferred.
• Must have basic computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal skills.
• Ability to work with a diverse population.
• Refined and well-organized multi-tasking skills.
• Bilingual/bicultural (English/Spanish) preferred.
• Valid driver’s license and use of own car as means of transportation.
• Must have a suitable CORI and SORI completed within the first thirty (30) days of employment.

Supervisory Responsibility:  None.

Travel:  Local travel required.

Physical Demands: This job regularly requires the employee to sit, walk and stand as well as use hands repetitively to handle or operate standard equipment. This employee is occasionally required to kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment: This job operates in a professional office environment and uses standard office equipment, such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, fax machines.

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