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Maternal Health Community Health Worker
Employee Status: Full-time
Location: Hybrid: In-person Detroit, MI
Salary: $40,000/year
Benefits Eligible: Yes: Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, 401K, and more!
FLSA: Non-Exempt
Reports to: Health Manager
Supervises: N/A
Brilliant Detroit Overview
In 2016 Brilliant Detroit was created to provide a radically new approach to kindergarten readiness in neighborhoods. The idea was to create a unique delivery model in our approach to early childhood development by using underutilized housing stock to create early child and family centers in neighborhoods. Brilliant Detroit homes provide holistic services for kids 0-8 predicated on evidence-based programs around health, family support, and education. Brilliant Detroit was born to create kid success neighborhoods. Today, in each location, neighbors come together for fellowship, activities and learning to assure school readiness, and provide needed support for families.
Job Summary
Brilliant Detroit is seeking a Community Health Worker who will work across all neighborhoods within the city of Detroit. A Community Health Worker (CHW) is a frontline public health worker who is a trusted member, and has a close understanding of the community served. The primary responsibilities of the CHW will include educating Brilliant Detroit participants on various maternal health topics and connecting these individuals with partner organizations offering maternal health resources. The key components for their scope of practice include outreach and attracting individuals to the program, advocacy, education, mentoring, informal counseling, social support and empowerment, and doing so in a way that improves the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. This is a one-year position funded in whole by external grants. This position is subject to discontinuation at the end of the grant period.
Responsibilities Include But Are Not Limited To
- Conduct maternal and child health education sessions
- Co-lead and provide technical and/or linguistic support at health education workshops
- Promote health education events through canvassing, flyering, and outreach calls
- Provide individualized health literacy training to participants of Brilliant Detroit who are pregnant to increase self-sufficiency and their ability to advocate for equitable medical services
- Ensure that participants of Brilliant Detroit who are pregnant have access to medical services, community donations, and supportive mainstream social services that address their unique needs in pregnancy and early childhood
- Gather and combine information from different sources to better understand our participants, their families and communities
- Creates and maintains a comprehensive resource manual of local community resources for pregnant people
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED required. Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in Management, Communications, Public Health, Social Work, Social Services and or other related field preferred
- Minimum 1 year experience working in other social service providers, as a social worker, in the public health field, or in health services preferred
- Maternal/child health experience preferred
- Working knowledge of community health problems including social social and economic factors relating to health
- Working knowledge of the needs and intricacies of the birthing process from pregnancy to delivery
- Strong, demonstrated technological proficiency with Google Drive, especially Google Sheets and Microsoft
- Strong, demonstrated technology and computer skills
- Strong, demonstrated knowledge of the city of Detroit
- Knowledge of the healthcare system
- Vast knowledge of Medicaid preferred
- Strong written, verbal and communication skills
- Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and team members around a goal
- Work with minimal up-front guidance and the ability to take ownership of work product
Work Conditions
- Ability to work cooperatively with individuals of diverse racial/economic/cultural backgrounds.
- Must be able to to lift and move at least 10 pounds
- Various sites where facilitation occurs may require using stairs to enter the area or room used for the facilitation.
- Ability to drive to various locations throughout Detroit to provide facilitation.
- Ability to enter and exit a vehicle frequently, with or without an aid, is required.
- This position may require evening and/or weekend work.
Brilliant Detroit provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Brilliant Detroit complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
