"Community Health Worker (Multiple Positions)"

Position Summary

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Community Health Worker for the Hematology/Oncology Department within New Jersey Medical School.

The Community Health Worker (CHW) works closely with the EPWC Coordinator as well as our collaborators to identify persons in need of preventive services, to refer such persons to such services, and to increase knowledge of cancer, chronic disease, and COVID-19 through education, health-related programming, prevention, and screenings. The CHW also works toward increasing the health literacy of the populations of Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as other areas statewide. CHW should have deep roots or similar lived experiences to the residents of the communities they will serve. The CHW acquires and maintains knowledge of relevant preventive health resources, maintain detailed, confidential records of persons they refer to such resources, and aid in developing relationships, trust, and mutual respect and understanding between the EPWC and multiple communities in Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as in other areas of New Jersey in conjunction with our collaborators.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

• Identify, catalogue and develop relationships with community resources for cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, COVID-19 immunization and testing, and other health related resources, as well as transportation and other necessary ancillary resources.
• Through continual contact with communities, identify persons in need of cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, and COVID-19 immunization and testing, and refer such persons to relevant screening, immunization, and/or smoking cessation resources.
• Attends and supports community-based outreach, recruitment, and screening events to assist in connecting eligible persons to risk-appropriate cancer screenings, immunizations, smoking cessation and/or other health services.
• In collaboration with providers of preventive services, contact and remind persons in need of follow-up services.
• Assists the coordinator in the development of and the upkeep of a community resource directory. This will include transportation resources.

Minimum Education and Experience

High School Diploma required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Standing, walking, sitting, talking and hearing. No special vision requirements, except as needed for driving. This position also requires the ability to lift up to 30 lbs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: This position will have a variety of work environments in communities throughout New Jersey. These include: Moderate noise areas such as patient care areas and typical work officer areas. This position will also require the individual to go out into the communities where they can be in either low, moderate, or high volume areas. This position may require the individual to work part-time in the offices of providers of preventive health and related services, where the individual will have to abide by all health and safety requirements of such offices.

Categories: Healthcare, Staff/Administrative