Job Description
**Employment Type:**
Full time
**Shift:**
**Description:**
This position serves as a bridge between the health system and patients, particularly patients with Medicare and/or Medicaid and patients with identified social needs. Works to promote, maintain, and improve health and well-being through informal support and counseling to their patients. Uses culturally appropriate outreach, support, and navigation to help patients access health care and address identified social needs. Plays a key role in building individual capacity by increasing patient’s health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as health education, goal setting, motivational interviewing, and advocacy. Works collaboratively with other healthcare team and community-based providers to improve patient health outcomes and reduce racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in those outcomes.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1. Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonst...
Full time
**Shift:**
**Description:**
This position serves as a bridge between the health system and patients, particularly patients with Medicare and/or Medicaid and patients with identified social needs. Works to promote, maintain, and improve health and well-being through informal support and counseling to their patients. Uses culturally appropriate outreach, support, and navigation to help patients access health care and address identified social needs. Plays a key role in building individual capacity by increasing patient’s health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as health education, goal setting, motivational interviewing, and advocacy. Works collaboratively with other healthcare team and community-based providers to improve patient health outcomes and reduce racial, ethnic, and economic disparities in those outcomes.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
1. Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonst...