LOCATION: Irvington, New Jersey
CLASSIFICATION: Temporary/Full-Time
WORK HOURS: 37.5/week
ANNUAL SALARY: $24/hour
Temporary position from April 28, 2025, to July 21, 2025
JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for connecting clients with services including but not limited to healthcare, insurance, social services, and other community resources in designated counties. Assist clients by coordinating appointments, making referrals, follow-up, and support services as needed. Provide education to individuals and groups. Provide case management. Case management will include, but not be limited to, providing ongoing follow-up and assessment of need. Support may be required in additional counties within the program.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES:
• Works closely with CHW supervisor, other HWHF staff, and their Connecting NJ hubs within the region and within the municipalities that are part of that region.
• Case Manage women who are not enrolled in an evidenced-based Home Visiting program.
• Target childbearing women aged 15-44 pre-conception, inter-conception, and postpartum and connect with high-risk individuals, particularly those who are not yet engaged in mainstream service systems.
• Maintain a minimum caseload of 25 participants, in the enrolled levels, monthly.
• Conduct outreach, networking, and education.
• Incorporate the use of screening tools (CHS and Initial Referral forms) to identify client risks or needs and collect data.
• Refer clients to other EBHV programs, offer and provide patient contact, including the client-centered provision of health information, modeling and demonstrating skills, and reinforcing positive health choices and behaviors. Coordinate perinatal health care and other early childhood services and supports.
• Have contact with high-risk women as per the Level of Service required, to identify needs and refer to appropriate resources up to 2 years or until participants are no longer in the program. Contact may include in-person visits, phone calls, emails, text messages or Whats App.
• Refer and provide 1:1 assistance to help clients obtain and consistently utilize health insurance, primary care and/or prenatal care services, family planning services, and other needed community services such as WIC, substance abuse, domestic violence, mental health, etc.
• Utilize a strength-based approach to case management by assisting participants with setting client-centered goals to help develop non-traditional community support to address issues surrounding employment, education, housing, and transportation.
• Collaborate with community partners to reduce Social Determinants of Health Issues clients encounter and refer to appropriate services.
• Provide and disseminate written and oral information about available family planning health services in the community to prevent unintended pregnancies and promote the spacing of subsequent pregnancies.
• Provide individualized social support to encourage and reinforce health-promoting behaviors by clients, including personal and family health behaviors.
• Establish relationships with other health and human service providers in the community to identify and refer individuals who may benefit from CHW support services.
• Link women and families to resources within the community such as Family Success Centers, Child Care Resource and Referral agencies, breastfeeding groups, etc.
• Document case management, complete assessments/forms, create referrals, and complete follow-up in Unite Us to ensure continuity of services.
• Assist in promoting Affordable Care Act health insurance and Medicaid enrollment for families.
• Participate in community engagement activities for outreach, community empowerment, and non-traditional partnerships to link families to housing, employment, transportation, food, etc.
• Attend and complete the 144-hour CLG-CHW Institute and ECHO training as per the NJDOH requirements.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
• Associate’s degree preferred
• Bilingual (Haitian-Creole) required.
• Experience providing outreach to women and familiarity with Region 1 and 2 County health and social services. Support may be needed in additional counties within the program.
• Nonjudgmental attitude
• Resourceful and flexible in working with clients.
• Computer literacy in MS Office Suite.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
All PMCH employees must comply with the guidelines of PMCH’s Immunization Policy.