Community Health Worker (Multiple Positions)
Rutgers University
Recruitment/Posting Title Community Health Worker (Multiple Positions) Job Category Staff & Executive - Healthcare - Administrative Services Department NJMS-Medicine-Hematology Overview New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.
Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives Posting Summary Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Community Health Worker for NJMS- Hematology/Oncology. The Community Health Worker (CHW) works closely with the EPWC Coordinator as well as our collaborators to identify persons in need of preventive services, to refer such persons to such services, and to increase knowledge of cancer, chronic disease, and COVID-19 through education, health-related programming, prevention, and screenings. The CHW also works toward increasing the health literacy of the populations of Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as other areas statewide. CHW should have deep roots or similar lived experiences to the residents of the communities they will serve. The CHW acquires and maintains knowledge of relevant preventive health resources, maintain detailed, confidential records of persons they refer to such resources, and aid in developing relationships, trust, and mutual respect and understanding between the EPWC and multiple communities in Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as in other areas of New Jersey in conjunction with our collaborators.
Among the key duties of this position are the following: Identify, catalogue and develop relationships with community resources for cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, COVID-19 immunization and testing, and other health related resources, as well as transportation and other necessary ancillary resources. Through continual contact with communities, identify persons in need of cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, and COVID-19 immunization and testing, and refer such persons to relevant screening, immunization, and/or smoking cessation resources. Attends and supports community-based outreach, recruitment, and screening events to assist in connecting eligible persons to risk-appropriate cancer screenings, immunizations, smoking cessation and/or other health services. In collaboration with providers of preventive services, contact and remind persons in need of follow-up services. Assists the coordinator in the development of and the upkeep of a community resource directory. This will include transportation resources. Position Status Part Time Hours Per Week Daily Work Shift Work Arrangement FLSA Nonexempt Grade 99H Position Salary Annual Minimum Salary 00.00 Annual Mid Range Salary 0.00 Annual Maximum Salary 0.00 Standard Hours 1.00 Union Description Health Care Prof Per Diem Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month Position Pension Eligibility None
Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.
Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.
Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives Posting Summary Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Community Health Worker for NJMS- Hematology/Oncology. The Community Health Worker (CHW) works closely with the EPWC Coordinator as well as our collaborators to identify persons in need of preventive services, to refer such persons to such services, and to increase knowledge of cancer, chronic disease, and COVID-19 through education, health-related programming, prevention, and screenings. The CHW also works toward increasing the health literacy of the populations of Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as other areas statewide. CHW should have deep roots or similar lived experiences to the residents of the communities they will serve. The CHW acquires and maintains knowledge of relevant preventive health resources, maintain detailed, confidential records of persons they refer to such resources, and aid in developing relationships, trust, and mutual respect and understanding between the EPWC and multiple communities in Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as in other areas of New Jersey in conjunction with our collaborators.
Among the key duties of this position are the following: Identify, catalogue and develop relationships with community resources for cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, COVID-19 immunization and testing, and other health related resources, as well as transportation and other necessary ancillary resources. Through continual contact with communities, identify persons in need of cancer screening, HPV immunization, smoking cessation, and COVID-19 immunization and testing, and refer such persons to relevant screening, immunization, and/or smoking cessation resources. Attends and supports community-based outreach, recruitment, and screening events to assist in connecting eligible persons to risk-appropriate cancer screenings, immunizations, smoking cessation and/or other health services. In collaboration with providers of preventive services, contact and remind persons in need of follow-up services. Assists the coordinator in the development of and the upkeep of a community resource directory. This will include transportation resources. Position Status Part Time Hours Per Week Daily Work Shift Work Arrangement FLSA Nonexempt Grade 99H Position Salary Annual Minimum Salary 00.00 Annual Mid Range Salary 0.00 Annual Maximum Salary 0.00 Standard Hours 1.00 Union Description Health Care Prof Per Diem Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.
Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month Position Pension Eligibility None
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