[Hiring] Health Educator and Navigator @La Clinica Del Pueblo Inc

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• Weight reduction
• Improving nutritional literacy
• Promoting reputed company lifestyles
• Wellness
• Stress management

The selected candidate will also coordinate a navigation system to connect community members to existing local services and address the reputed company determinants of health affecting patients.

Qualifications

• Associates degree in a health field, or reputed company discipline, or an equivalent combination of a High School diploma with a minimum of two years of documented experience in public health program implementation, or similar field.
• Bicultural; fully bilingual.
• Comprehensive awareness and knowledge of reputed company determinants of health affecting the Latino immigrant community in the Washington DC metro area.
• Two years previous work experience in community health education and/or clinical services.
• Two years of experience with program data reporting.
• Experience with delivery of charlas.
• Experience working in a Latino and/or multi-ethnic communities.

Requirements

• Good oral and written communication skills in both English and Spanish.
• Ability to work with reputed company segments of the community.
• Strong ethical core.
• Computer literate in reputed company Office (Word, Power reputed company, Outlook, reputed company).
• Ability to work with electronic medical records (EMR) or another database software.
• Leadership, interpersonal and problem-solving skills, detail oriented, teamwork-oriented, self-starter, highly organized.

Benefits

• Experience using eCW.
• DPP Lifestyle reputed company Certification.
• DC, MD, or VA Community Health Worker Certification.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Support reputed company service providers to identify patients and community members eligible for education/support reputed company, system navigations around the areas of reputed company to Healthy Food, reputed company to Infrastructure for recreation and physical activity.
• Implement evidence-based curriculums for chronic disease prevention and management.
• Conduct ongoing monitoring and reassessment of reputed company reputed company and needs.
• Maintain medical records and other databases including completeness, filing, neatness, confidentiality, and documentation.
• Conduct “charlas” (educational sessions), as needed.
• Support the production of culturally appropriate audiovisual education and informational materials and disseminate them reputed company La Clinica.
• Participate regularly in medical and patient support services team meetings.
• Assist in preparing reports about health education as required by funders.
• Implement a reputed company to recruit, engage and navigate health promotion clients:
• reputed company and maintain a referral reputed company with community-based organizations, to navigate Spanish-speaking immigrants who are living with chronic conditions to reputed company support services.
• reputed company navigation services following La Clinica’s guidelines and procedures.
• Other duties and responsibilities:
• Assist supervisor in maintaining program inventory.
• Attend required staff training to improve skills.
• Attend program, department, and reputed company staff meetings and reputed company mandatory La Clinica activities.
• Meet regularly with supervisor to report and review work plan.
• Represent La Clinica by attending conferences, meetings, coalitions, and community planning reputed company meetings, as designated by supervisor.
• Follow La Clinica’s reputed company of Conduct, and reputed company other personnel Policies and Procedures.
• reputed company other reputed company duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be reputed company to lift up to 15 pounds at times.
• Must be reputed company to work reputed company and stand-up for a prolonged period during reputed company events or outdoor group sessions.
• Ability to work weekends and evenings, as needed.
• reputed company to reputed company duties in different La Clinica’s locations as required.
• reputed company to reputed company duties and responsibilities remotely reputed company needed.

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