Community Health Worker (Maternal Infant Child Health)

Position Summary:The Community Health Worker (CHW) will join our Maternal/Infant Health Care team to support the community by addressing maternal and infant health challenges. Based in the Bronx, the CHW promotes women's health before, during and after pregnancy. The CHW maintains a caseload of 25 individuals and provides referrals to various support services such as prenatal care, WIC, doula support, immunization, breastfeeding, and family planning. This is currently a remote (work from home) role, however candidate must be comfortable with the prospect of returning to onsite duties (including home visits) in the Bronx in the future. Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates Degree (or High School Diploma with some college credits) in Public Health or related field of study, required.
• True passion and dedication to the health of mothers and infants.
• Ability to conduct outreach to at-risk women (pregnant and parenting)
• Previous experience in outreach, referrals, or women’s health education- highly desired.
• Bilingual in English and French or Spanish is a huge plus.

Key Duties:

• Conducts extensive outreach to identify, engage, and enroll women of childbearing age into the program.
• Conducts regular home visits and service coordination.
• Conducts health-related workshops in the office and home-based one-on-one health education (prenatal care, immunization, breastfeeding, family planning).
• Provides women with referrals to various supports, services, entitlements, and benefits. Escorts to appointments, when necessary.
• Escorts patients to various appointments.
• Enters client data into software on a daily basis.
• Assists with special projects as needed.

About Urban Health Plan:At Urban Health Plan (UHP) our mission is to continuously improve the health of communities and the quality of life of the people we serve by providing affordable, comprehensive, quality, primary and specialty health care and by assuring the performance and advancement of innovative best practices. At UHP, our commitment to provide patient-centered, holistic, quality health care, is part of a tradition started by our founder, Dr. Richard Izquierdo, more than 40 years ago. That tradition continues today by promoting excellence in everything that we do. Benefits Include:

• Fully funded Health Insurance for yourself
• 73.5% funded Health Insurance for your family
• Dental Insurance
• $50,000 term life Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings (including annual UHP Contribution)
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive time off including paid vacation, personal time, sick time, and paid holidays (including your birthday!).

UHP is an equal opportunity employer. M/F/D/V. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin/ancestry, citizenship status, disability, age, marital or family status, and military or veteran status.