Community Health Worker

Overview

CHI Mercy Health offers the unique opportunity to grow professionally in a supportive highly rewarding work environment and to satisfy your soul in the surroundings of a breathtakingly beautiful natural setting. More than 100 years after the founding of our organization the core values - Compassion Inclusion Integrity Excellence and Collaboration - that guide our interactions with our patients and each other remain the same. In the welcoming embrace of these nurturing communities you will feel immediately at home.

Roseburg is located on Interstate 5 in Southern Oregon's scenic Douglas County. The community is nestled in a lush forested region known as the 100 Valleys of the Umpqua. In many places you'll find it hard to maintain a healthy work-life/personal-life balance because the pace of one is indistinguishable from the other. Not here. Life never stops here but it slows to an easy welcome pace. A traffic jam means you missed the yellow and have to wait for the next green. A terrible parking space is the one across from the restaurant instead of in front of it. And the three words you may never hear are "Wow that's expensive." Easy is the best way to describe life here. Hard-to-beat works too.

Responsibilities

As a Community Health Worker for the Foundation you will address health-related social needs of patients as well as to provide connection to resources for hospital staff.

Essential Duties

• Address immediate patient needs before hospital discharge

• Connect patients with resources to alleviate economic disparities

• Assist patiens in applying for public benefits

• Facilitate access to support services and community resources and tools for self-management support

• Provide education and training to promote self-management, transportation and housing

• Disseminate information to employees about community resources

Shift: 8am - 5pm

Schedule: Monday - Friday

Qualifications

License/Certifications:

• CHW required within 6 months of hire

Experience:

• 1 year healthcare and/or community-based work experience that would demonstrate attainment of the requisite job knowledge/abilities OR volunteer service in these areas of marginalized people and/or healthcare related services focused on the social determinants of health

Pay Range

$17.89 - $24.60 /hour

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.