Community Health Worker (SOM, Pediatric Emergency Medicine)

• #Staff SOM Emergency Medicine is seeking a Community Health Worker (CHW).

The CHW will actively promote primary and secondary prevention services through team-based care delivered primarily in Baltimore city public schools and other identified community sites. The CHW will be in close contact with the program co-directors and serve as a link between the schools, the hospital, and other referral destinations for children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies. This position will be supervised by the co-directors of the hospital-school liaison program for suicide prevention.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinate services for students in schools who need outside support for psychiatric emergencies
• Co-lead educational sessions with families in schools
• Establish rapport with school staff and students
• Provide general information regarding the project to community and school members
• Respond to inquiries about the project, including face-to-face, over the phone/text, and web-based conversations
• Assist the team with data collection, make outreach and data collection schedule reminder calls and emails, prepare outreach and follow-up data collection materials
• Monitor recruitment and retention of project participants
• Document outreach and follow-up activities and enter data as appropriate in a timely, accurate, and comprehensive manner per project protocol
• File, retrieve, and maintain participant records
• Perform all work activities per established protocols and procedures
• Attend weekly meetings and trainings
• Maintain confidentiality of all participants in accordance with employers' procedures
• With appropriate training and supervision as needed by employer, deliver intervention program to enrolled schools
• Other duties as appropriately assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent
• Two years of related experience
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

Preferred Qualifications

• Fluent English (additional knowledge of Spanish preferred)
• Experience working with and/or is from the target community
• Must have his/her own transportation to travel around the study areas and be comfortable working in the field, including interacting regularly with children and adolescents and their parents about mental health-related subject matters
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks
• Must be willing to be trained as a community health worker.

Classified Title:

Community Outreach SpecialistJob Posting Title (Working Title): Community Health Worker (SOM, Pediatric Emergency Medicine)

Role/Level/Range:

ACRO37.5/02/

CCStarting Salary Range:

$16.10

• $26.

90 HRLY ($44,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)Employee group:

Full TimeSchedule:

Hours and Days may vary

FLSA Status:

Non-ExemptLocation:

Hybrid/School of Medicine CampusDepartment name: SOM Ped Emergency MedicinePersonnel area: School of MedicineEqual Opportunity EmployerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.