JOB DESCRIPTION:

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Public Health AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.
This is an AmeriCorps Member role – Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator – that supports the Center for Key Populations and throughout Middletown, Meriden, New Britain, and New London areas, Mobile Health Unit (MHU) and CT River Valley Farmworker Health Program.

Terms & Program Benefits:

• One-year service term from September 2, 2025 thru August 28, 2026
• Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $23,700 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff or volunteer position.

This is the opportunity for you if you:

• Possess a mature, compassionate, and sensitive demeanor
• Enjoy working with others and genuine desire to help
• Are organized and have great time management skills
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
• Coordinate with CKP Outreach team to implement a strategic outreach plan that provides support and coordination to all healthcare for the homeless and MHU sites such as schedules, locations, staffing, templates, and patient visits.
• Facilitate outreach activities to coordinate and conduct new Medicaid patient enrollments.
• Provide individual patient health education to clients to encourage scheduling and completing routine care appointments.

Please refer the Job description for details