Community Health Coordinator

Make a Difference in Your Community!

Do you have a passion for empowering individuals to achieve their best health? Are you a compassionate and resourceful communicator who thrives on building connections and breaking down barriers? If so, we invite you to join our dedicated team as a Community Health Coordinator!

As a vital member of our care coordination team, you will specialize in working directly with patients and patient groups, collaborating to create individualized, integrated healthcare plans and ensuring seamless follow-up. You'll be the crucial link between patients, healthcare providers, and community resources, making a tangible impact on the well-being of our community. This role demands a proactive approach, requiring you to navigate various healthcare settings and community agencies, occasionally working non-traditional hours to accommodate patient needs.

What You'll Do (The Core of Your Impact):

• Patient-Centered Advocate: Work directly with patients to develop and implement personalized integrated health plans, ensuring compliance with health management goals through ongoing support and follow-up.
• Community Connector: Conduct essential health education and screening outreach efforts within the community, driven by referrals from case management and healthcare providers.
• Barrier Reducer: Actively identify and mitigate client barriers to accessing necessary healthcare services and vital community resources.
• Collaboration Catalyst: Facilitate effective communication and coordination between a diverse range of community resources/services and healthcare providers.
• Resource Expert: Maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base of all available community resources, services, and programs to effectively serve our patient population.
• Vulnerable Population Champion: Create crucial connections between vulnerable individuals and the community services and resources they need most.
• Program Developer: Assist in establishing a unified referral system and contribute to the ongoing evaluation and improvement of the community health worker program.
• Team Player: Work closely and collaboratively with Providers and care coordination teams to ensure holistic patient care.
• Cultural Competence: Demonstrate a high level of cultural competence, fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for all patients and colleagues.
• Strategic Initiatives: Lead committees, work groups, and/or projects focused on implementing impactful educational activities and program improvements.
• Technology Integrator: Facilitate the effective use of technology, including virtual methods, to support all aspects of program delivery.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Develop processes for the systematic and purposeful collection and dissemination of data and information to inform program development and resource allocation.
• Strategic Partnerships: Allocate resources based on internal and external environmental scanning, cultivate a strategic partnership network aligning with the system's workforce plan, and build and maintain strong internal partnerships (e.g., HR, Quality Improvement, Learning & Development).
• Learning Environment Cultivator: Ensure a healthy, multi-disciplinary learning environment across the system.

What You'll Bring (Qualifications):

Required Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED.

Required Licensure and Certifications:

• Community Health Worker Certification (to be obtained within the first three (3) months of hire).
• Current AHA BLS Certification.

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional Communication: Ability to write clear reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to common inquiries or complaints from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.
• Program Development Expertise: Demonstrated experience in program development, implementation, and evaluation.
• High Emotional Intelligence: Possesses strong self-control, self-awareness, self-management, and social awareness.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Ability to identify talent, coach, and develop others.
• Dynamic Presence: Energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate, serving as a positive role model.
• Mathematical Proficiency: Ability to perform basic arithmetic operations (add, subtract, multiply, divide) with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals. Ability to compare rates, ratios, and percentages, and interpret bar graphs.
• Problem-Solving & Reasoning: Ability to solve practical problems and adapt to varied situations, interpreting various instructions in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Computer Proficiency: Must be proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite, Google applications, internet navigation, database management, spreadsheets, Electronic Health Records (EHR), and graphic presentation packages.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in a similar role or related healthcare/community outreach field.

CHI St. Anthony Hospital is a 25 bed licensed for 49 faith-based acute care level four trauma critical access hospital and healthcare campus serving the Pendleton Oregon area for more than 100 years. We are committed to the highest quality of patient care and safety; and to strengthening our community through wellness education. CHI St. Anthony Hospital is designed specifically to ensure that our physicians nurses and healthcare professionals can continue to provide extraordinary care for our patients. The 103000 square foot hospital features 4 operations rooms 11 emergency rooms 30 private patient rooms and the latest medical equipment. St. Anthony Hospital has plenty of room to grow as needed by the community and will continue to provide the safest quality of care possible. St. Anthony Hospital was also named one of the top patient experience hospitals in 2021. CHI St. Anthony is a member of CommonSpirit Health the largest not-for-profit health care system in the nation boasting an integrated network of top quality hospitals with physicians from the most prestigious medical schools and comprehensive outpatient services-all recognized for quality safety and service. To learn more go to www.sahpendleton.org