Website Kalihi-Palama Health Center
Kalihi-Palama Health Center (KPHC) is looking for a Community Health Worker!
Primary Purpose:
Provide case management, outreach, and health education and interpretation services. Assist in training students in the health professions and health care professionals regarding cultural issues and health care. Serve as an advocate for appropriate, quality health and social services. Each team member plays an integral role in providing patient-centered health care.
Essential Duties:
- Interpretation services in specified language needed
- Provide oral and written interpretation services, providing health education and counseling as needed.
- Assist in scheduling patient for appointments
- Assist patient and connect to appropriate staff when requesting for medication refills
- Assist patients in application for entitlements: medical insurance, financial, housing etc.
- Provide outreach and home visits to patients who are non-complaint with treatment or when deemed necessary by health care professionals
- Provide health education and counseling to patients
- Assist patients in filing out intake forms and other pertinent forms needed for the office visit
- Assist patients with outside billing problems
- Document all pertinent requests and contacts in patients chart
- Provide referral and linkage when deemed appropriate by health care team
- Make follow-up call or write reminder letters to patients
- Assist in training students in health professions and health care professionals as well as patients regarding cultural issues and health care
- Attend trainings and classes for the improvement of their services
- Create a safe and clean environment
To apply for this job please visit kphc.applicantpro.com.