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Alameda County Public Health Department, Community Health Service Division, is recruiting for a *temporary:

COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKER I

$31.14-$37.82 Hour!

Alameda County Human Resource Services

TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT POOL

***Temporary employees are not entitled to full County benefits.

Temporary Assignments: Assignments vary in duration depending on the needs of the department. An assignment may end at any time. To obtain a regular position, the appointee will need to compete successfully in a County Exam when open.

*Assignments are expected to last approximately 12 months to 18 months depending on the need of the department.

Public Health's COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES DIVISION

Division Mission

The mission of Community Health Services (CHS) is to encourage, support and empower residents to be healthy, build capacity for self-sufficiency, and improve the health and well-being of the community.

The Division focuses on neighborhood-based community strategies that address root causes of health and social inequity in public education and income and economic development.

Key strategies that the Division currently uses include:

• Promoting healthy choices through policy development, community engagement, education and information dissemination
• Protecting the health and well-being of residents with appropriate interventions and health policies based on state-of-the-art knowledge
• Ensuring access to quality health and social services through collaboration with individuals, families, institutions and available resources in the community
• Providing culturally and ethnically sensitive services to the community
• Engaging in on-going planning and evaluation in partnership with the community

THE POSITION

Under general supervision performs casework and a variety of community and educational outreach activities in health care, public safety, or social services programs; acts as a liaison between communities, agencies, other resources and services and program staff; and to do related work as required.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

The following statements reflect the general duties considered necessary in order to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent to the job.

• Performs community in reach/outreach and/or health education activities to targeted groups and/or individuals.

• Provides programmatic information to community-based providers, schools and the public.

• Informs clients of community services available and may contact those agencies/ community-based organizations on clients' behalf.

• Identifies community resources appropriate to meet clients' needs as identified by re-entry care plan that can aid in their long-term success.

• Provides residents, community groups and volunteers with educational information concerning health, employment, barrier removal, housing, or social service programs in Alameda County.

• Provides supportive counseling and advocacy for clients.

• Translates educational and other resource materials for specific targeted populations.

• Attends staff conferences; represents staff in community-agency meetings.

• Assists professional staff by conducting non-clinical interviews with clients and relatives and collecting client data information regarding medical/social history, following established protocols.

• Acts as liaison between client, relatives, guardians, employers, physicians, and service providers on behalf of clients utilizing established protocols.

• Participates in special projects such as researching information, summarizing data, and preparing narrative reports.

• Processes risk assessment questionnaires utilized by professional staff to determine client needs.
• Collects and delivers (if applicable) participant's informed consent forms and/or questionnaires to designated staff.

• Recruits volunteers to attend drug treatment programs at participating drug treatment centers or other needed service programs.

• If certified, may be required to perform Tuberculin Skin Tests, draw blood, or collect lab samples from clients and properly store and deliver to appropriate laboratory.

• Assists with the coordination and delivery of preventive health care programs and participates in health fairs and community events.

• Assists in the implementation of case management plans under the supervision of professional staff.

• Prepares a variety of letters, memos, and other written materials; may enter information into and access multiple databases or use information from various sources to prepare such materials.

• Delivers grade-level and age-appropriate classroom education on preventive health subjects in preschools, elementary schools, junior high and high schools.

• Links school personnel with available health services and health insurance coverage for students.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH WORKER I

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE:

The equivalent of one (1) year of full-time experience working in a community outreach program performing duties such as: Intake, peer counseling, obtaining personal history data, re-entry assessments, non-clinical assessments, providing client community health education, program screening, placement, and referral.

SUBSTITUTION:

The equivalent of an AA degree (60 semester or 90 quarter units) from an accredited college in health services, social science health education or a related field, such as Psychology or Counseling, may be substituted for one (1) year of full-time experience.

*PREFFERED QUALIFICATIONS:

Experienced COW required with culturally competent working in diverse communities, with focus on Black/African American communities

HOW TO APPLY

An Alameda County application is required to be considered for this recruitment.

Please email the Job Application and a cover letter to:

Tyler (...@acgov.org)

Alameda County's job application template is available online on Alameda County's Online Employment Center at:

NEW USERS can click on "I am a NEW USER" to fill out an application template. Once the application is completed, please click on the "Review" tab to "Print/Save My Application". A PDF version or digital scan of the application must be submitted to the email address above.

Alameda County Health Care Services Agency is enriched with a diverse workforce. We believe the best way to deliver optimal programs and services to our communities is to hire and promote talents that are representative of the communities we serve. Diverse candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.