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Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.
SOM Emergency Medicine is seeking a Community Health Worker (CHW). The CHW will actively promote primary and secondary prevention services through team-based care delivered primarily in Baltimore city public schools and other identified community sites. The CHW will be in close contact with the program co-directors and serve as a link between the schools, the hospital, and other referral destinations for children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies. This position will be supervised by the co-directors of the hospital-school liaison program for suicide prevention.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
- Coordinate services for students in schools who need outside support for psychiatric emergencies.
- Co-lead educational sessions with families in schools.
- Establish rapport with school staff and students.
- Provide general information regarding the project to community and school members.
- Respond to inquiries about the project, including face-to-face, over the phone/text, and web-based conversations.
- Assist the team with data collection, make outreach and data collection schedule reminder calls and emails, prepare outreach and follow-up data collection materials.
- Monitor recruitment and retention of project participants
- Document outreach and follow-up activities and enter data as appropriate in a timely, accurate, and comprehensive manner per project protocol.
- File, retrieve, and maintain participant records.
- Perform all work activities per established protocols and procedures.
- Attend weekly meetings and trainings.
- Maintain confidentiality of all participants in accordance with employers' procedures.
- With appropriate training and supervision as needed by employer, deliver intervention program to enrolled schools.
- Other duties as appropriately assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
- Two years of related experience.
- Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fluent English (additional knowledge of Spanish preferred).
- Experience working with and/or is from the target community.
- Must have his/her own transportation to travel around the study areas and be comfortable working in the field, including interacting regularly with children and adolescents and their parents about mental health-related subject matters.
- Strong organizational skills with ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks.
- Must be willing to be trained as a community health worker.
Classified Title: Community Outreach Specialist
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Community Health Worker (SOM, Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
Role/Level/Range: ACRO37.5/02/CC
Starting Salary Range: $16.10 - $26.90 HRLY ($44,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Hours and Days may vary
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM Ped Emergency Medicine
Personnel area: School of Medicine
The successful candidate(s) for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background check.
If you are interested in applying for employment with The Johns Hopkins University and require special assistance or accommodation during any part of the pre-employment process, please contact the HR Business Services Office at jhurecruitment@jhu.edu. For TTY users, call via Maryland Relay or dial 711.
The following additional provisions may apply depending on which campus you will work. Your recruiter will advise accordingly.
During the Influenza ("the flu") season, as a condition of employment, The Johns Hopkins Institutions require all employees who provide ongoing services to patients or work in patient care or clinical care areas to have an annual influenza vaccination or possess an approved medical or religious exception. Failure to meet this requirement may result in termination of employment.
The pre-employment physical for positions in clinical areas, laboratories, working with research subjects, or involving community contact requires documentation of immune status against Rubella (German measles), Rubeola (Measles), Mumps, Varicella (chickenpox), Hepatitis B and documentation of having received the Tdap (Tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis) vaccination. This may include documentation of having two (2) MMR vaccines; two (2) Varicella vaccines; or antibody status to these diseases from laboratory testing. Blood tests for immunities to these diseases are ordinarily included in the pre-employment physical exam except for those employees who provide results of blood tests or immunization documentation from their own health care providers. Any vaccinations required for these diseases will be given at no cost in our Occupational Health office.
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