Job Information
Child & Family Services of RI Community Health Worker in Newport, Rhode Island
This position is eligible for a one-time $750 sign-on bonus payable after the completion of 90 days of employment.
About Your Team
Your team understands the impact of trauma and provides residents and their families with solutions for positive outcomes and permanence. Your team creates a sense of stability by providing a home-like and nurturing environment with daily experiences and life skills.
What You’ll Be Doing
You will provide support to the staff and youth in the program. This includes, but not limited to, practicing skills implemented by the program’s clinician, case manager, and life skills coach with youth and supporting youth efforts in managing health by providing transportation to mental health or other health related appointments.
Your Main Priorities
While additional responsibilities are likely to arise on the job, you will primarily:
• Manages email communications from program and community outreach efforts.
• Schedules and attend check-in sessions or meetings with Residential Counselors and program leadership to support youth treatment goals and assist youth in practicing skills.
• Completes contact notes and uploads or transfers documentation to appropriate Electronic Health Records (EHR) system.
• Provides progress updates to referral sources and maintains relationships with other agencies.
• Collects and is knowledgeable about community resources and information.
• Attend the required meetings to discuss cases, openings, opportunities, etc.
• Accompany coworkers on visits to support youth’s progress of identified goals.
• Help youth with completing job applications and preparing for job interviews as needed.
• Transports clients with agency vehicles to sessions or appointments as needed.
Who You Are
Requirements, Skills & Abilities:
• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience related to the role, professional or lived experiences accepted.
• Community Health Worker certification a plus.
• Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and time-management skills.
• Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
• Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
• Collaboration and teamwork.
• Must have a valid driver’s license.
• Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
• The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
Physical Requirements
Direct Service Staff (Travel as part of position):
This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.
Travel Requirements
Site location: Newport
Statewide travel required.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Affirmative Action
Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experiences by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities LGBTQ+ communities and others.
o Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.