Part-Time Health Promotion Advocate

Job description

La Red Health Center is the place you want to work!

Our Benefits include the following: Starting with 4 weeks of vacation for all full-time employees and 12 paid holidays including your Birthday! All pro-rated if you are part-time. We pay for your dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability. We offer you a quarterly bonus just for being a good employee. We offer you an affordable BC & BS health plan. Yearly free money for school, if it has to do with the medical field (you have to get good grades too)

La Red Health Center is a mandatory vaccination employer for COVID-19 and its variants. La Red requires that its employees be full vaccinated as of their start date. If you require a medical or religious accommodation, we will engage in the interactive process with you. Proof of vaccination will be required prior to start.

Job Summary:

The Health Promotion Advocate (HPA) is responsible for identifying uninsured and underinsured patient as they present to the health center. The HPA’s duties will include, but are not limited to, identifying potential healthcare payment sources, coordinating the application processes for potential programs a patient may be eligible for, eliminating potential barriers, linking the patient with health promotion and disease prevention programs and servings, performing follow up as needed to ensure patients follow through with preventive screenings, and ensuring that all have a medical home.

Essential Responsibilities:

The following duties are not intended to serve as a comprehensive list of all duties performed by all associates in this classification. Listed are duties intended to provide a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities. Incumbent(s) may not be required to perform all duties listed and may be required to perform additional, position-specific duties.

Develop or utilize existing mechanisms to identify uninsured and underinsured individual responsibilities are present to La Red Health Center.

Utilize resources available within the organization in order to maximize the number of uninsured and underinsured that are successfully referred and enrolled in social service and medical assistance programs.

Contact, screen, and counsel patients and/or their family regarding financial eligibility for HCC, SFL, and/or other programs that provide free or reduced cost medical services.

Promote disease prevention to include:

a) Identify self-pay users of health care services.

b) Serve as an advocate for patients and providers by determining and meeting their needs as well as educating them on the importance of screening and being active participants in their own health care.

c) Implement actives that are educational and serve to encourage individuals to receive appropriate health screening.

d) Identify primary audience that are at higher risk, and are likely to be knowledge about screening guidelines. Aim to provide educational information and materials to these individuals.

e) Develop and implement new recruitment strategies for underserved communities as necessary.

Perform provide outreach to inform local physicians of available healthcare service.

Educate potentially eligible and willing participants about various programs application processes. To include:

a) Contact uninsured and underinsured individuals to inform them of potential eligibility for HCC, SFL, and other medical assistance programs.

b) Conduct initial screening to determine potential eligibility for HCC, SFL, and other medical assistance programs.

c) Counsel patients on the application process and benefits of enrolling in HCC, SFL, and other medical assistance programs.

d) Make appointments for individuals interested in scheduling a screening. Place both reminder and follow-up phone calls to these individuals to ensure that they receive the desired screening.

Act in the best interest of La Red Health Center and its programs. To include:

a) Compile and report the data from activities in the required format.

b) Ensure HIPAA enforcement and maintenance of confidentiality.

c) Keep appropriate program records, such as proof of income.

d) Promote health promotion and disease prevention programs and services.

e) Act proactively to identify and address problems as they arise.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:

Associate’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience required.

A minimum of one year of healthcare experience.

Knowledge of community resources and publicly funded community and health service program.

Case management experience including tracking, follow-up, and evaluation.

Experience in health and human services support to include interviewing patients and assessing personal health, social, and financial needs.

Experience in record keeping which includes maintain records, logs, and filing systems.

Experience in using automated information system to enter, update, modify, delete, retrieve/inquire, and report data. EMR experience will be helpful.

Bilingual – English/Spanish is mandatory

Job Type: Part-time

Salary: Up to $14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 4 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

COVID-19 considerations:

All new employees must receive vaccinations, unless a reasonable accommodation is approved. All employees and patients are required to wear masks and take their temperature. Common surfaces are sanitized.

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $13.00 - $14.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Georgetown, DE 19947: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• EHR systems: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $13 - $14