La Clinica Del Pueblo Inc
Location
Washington, District of Columbia
Salary
$45,000 - $50,000 / YEAR
The Community Health Worker will implement initiatives to promote gender equity, prevent gender-based violence, and support sexual and reproductive health for Latina immigrant women. Responsibilities include conducting community outreach, facilitating educational sessions, managing social media content, and providing navigation services to link participants with necessary support.
Candidates must have at least a high school diploma or GED and one year of experience in gender-based violence prevention or sexual and reproductive health. Proficiency in Spanish is required, along with the ability to use social media platforms and navigate community health resources.
La Clínica del Pueblo
Job Title: Community Health Worker
Department: Community Health Action
Supervisor: Gender & Health Program Manager
This position will be primarily located in DC but needs to be able to move between locations as needed. This position will be working on site, and remotely as needed.
Classification: Non-Exempt/Hourly
This position works within the Community Health Action Department to support community interventions promoting gender equity through the implementation of initiatives aiming to prevent gender-based violence and to promote sexual & reproductive health, using health literacy approach, participatory health education methodologies, and peer-based strategies, targeting Latina immigrant women in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. This position will also support health education activities provided to patients referred by La Clinica’s care teams.
• DC, MD, or VA Community Health Worker certification.
Duties: and Responsibilities:
1. Implement work plan ensuring completion of the Gender & Health Program’s deliverables following internal guidelines and protocols, including but not limited to:
a. Reaching assigned recruitment work plan’s goals for health promoters and participants.
b. Support recruitment, training, coordination, and retention of health promoters’ activities.
c. Recruiting and co-facilitating support groups, small-talks skills-building, and other educational sessions.
d. Reaching assigned work plan targets for individual, group and community-level interventions.
e. Support implementation of training based on popular education for peer health educators.
f. Provide monthly written reports on progress meeting work plan’s goals, as required.
g. Support coordination and scheduling of program appointments for clients. Includes calling clients to inform them of changes in schedules or cancelled appointments.
h. Handle phone/face-to-face contacts with clients and individuals seeking information regarding the Gender & Health Program.
i. Support Navigation services for program participants linking them to health care, social and legal support services and ensuring retention.
j. Support screening services.
k. Update social media platforms with program’s prevention messages, calendar of activities and information.
a. Identify potential areas for engaging in outreach events (based on existing community mapping).
b. Assist the implementation of community outreach events.
c. Conduct social media activities on Facebook and other sites.
d. Advocate for individual and community needs building individual and community capacity.
e. Support program health promoters and participants attending community forums, coalition meetings, hearings, and other community events.
f. Collaborate with participatory research activities, including surveys development, focus group implementation and context analysis and discussions.
3.
a. Provide logistic support for weekly and monthly support groups and monthly educational workshops.
b. Support administration of assigned program’s expenditure budget, ensuring expenditures according to approved budget and reporting them as required by internal Financial procedures.
a. Collect and report data from each activity performed following program guidelines.
b. Support data monitoring and quality assurance efforts.
a. Support coordination of work related to the Gender & Health with staff within and outside La Clínica.
b. Represent La Clinica at relevant meetings and coalitions within and outside La Clinica, as required.
a. Attend required trainings to increase/maintain skills.
b. Attend program, department, and all staff meetings and all mandatory La Clinica activities.
c. Follow La Clinica’s Code of Conduct and all other personnel Policies and Procedures.
d. Perform other duties as assigned.
• None.