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Job Description Summary:

Job Description:

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Public Health AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an AmeriCorps Member role – Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator – that supports the Center for Key Populations and throughout Middletown, Meriden, New Britain, and New London areas, Mobile Health Unit (MHU) and CT River Valley Farmworker Health Program.

Terms & Program Benefits:

+ One-year service term from September 2, 2025 thru August 28, 2026

+ Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year

+ $23,700 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly

+ An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion

+ **This is not a staff or volunteer position.**

This is the opportunity for you if you:

+ Possess a mature, compassionate, and sensitive demeanor

+ Enjoy working with others and genuine desire to help

+ Are organized and have great time management skills

+ Thrive in a fast paced environment

+ Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:

+ Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.

+ Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.

+ Coordinate with CKP Outreach team to implement a strategic outreach plan that provides support and coordination to all healthcare for the homeless and MHU sites such as schedules, locations, staffing, templates, and patient visits.

+ Facilitate outreach activities to coordinate and conduct new Medicaid patient enrollments.

+ Provide individual patient health education to clients to encourage scheduling and completing routine care appointments.

Organization Information:

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country’s most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare. CHC is designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA, respectively. We deliver more than 600,000 patient visits per year from primary care hubs and community clinics across the state of CT, all connected by technology and common standards for quality. We employ several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers who are engaged in practice, teaching, and research. Our Weitzman Institute is devoted to research and practice transformation and is recognized around the country as one of the premier research institutes focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. In addition, the organization has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from the original pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and ConferMed.

Location:

Middletown - Weitzman Building

City:

Middletown

State:

Connecticut

Time Type:

Part time

MWHS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.