Community Health Worker

The following are some of the duties and responsibilities of the CHW and may require travel to other Stamford Health sites and clinics:

• Educate patients about relevant community resources appropriate to their needs.
• Help patients set personal health related goals.
• Assist patients access transportation for appointments.
• Navigate patients through the care continuum including appointment scheduling, visit completion, follow-up coordination and verification with the physician that the patient understood the results of the visit.
• Provide educational opportunities via lectures on health-related topics.
• Collaborate on strategy and program roll-out, report on barriers and successes of the program to the CHW program coordinator/manager.
• Complete Spanish interpreter certification.
• Provide language translations at the hospital and in the community to help access medical resources.
• Assist community members find services such as rent relief, housing, healthy food and energy assistance.
• Assist community members with applications for FAP or direct them to resources for Medicaid application.