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“Sanitas is a global healthcare organization expanding across United States. Our services include primary care, urgent care, nutrition, lab, diagnostic, health care education and resources for our patients. We strive to attract professionals who believe in our mission, vision and are dedicated to the service of our patients and their families creating a memorable experience through compassion, respect, and kindness.”
Job Summary
A community health worker (CHW) serves as a link between Sanitas medical centers and the community surrounding them. The CHW will be in charge of connecting with local resources, mapping the community and linking leaders and services to our users. During the workday, community health workers normally split their time between the assigned medical center and being on the ground in the area of the medical center to meet with individuals and organizations in the local community.
Essential Job Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Required Education
Required Experience
Required Licenses and Certifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Preferred Qualifications
Financial Responsibilities
None of the above - This position does not currenlty handle physical money or negotiate contracts | N/A |
Budget Responsibilities
This position does not currently have Budget Responsibility | N/A |
Languages
English | Advanced |
Spanish | Preferred |
Creole | Preferred |
Travel
Required | Identify community resources at the local level in the areas surrounding the assigned medical center. |
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to work standing up, walk, use hands to operate tools and equipment and must be able to exert regularly up to 10 pounds of force, frequently exert 30 pounds of force and occasionally exert 50 pounds of force to constantly perform the essential job functions. The employee will be frequently required to reach with hands and arms, bend, balance, kneel, crouch, crawl, push, and pull. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Environmental Conditions
Inside: The employee is subject to environmental conditions, protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The worker is subject to noise; there may be sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above ambient noise level.
Physical/Environmental Activities
Please indicate with an X the frequency for the activities that apply to the essential functions of the job based on the chart below. Please select Not Required for physical demands that aren’t essential to job performance.
Working Condition | Not Required | Occasionally (1-33%) | Frequently (34-66%) | Constantly (67-100%) |
Must be able to travel to multiple locations for work (i.e. travel to attend meetings, events, conferences). | X | |||
May be exposed to outdoor weather conditions of cold, heat, wet, and humidity. | X | |||
May be exposed to outdoor or warehouse conditions of loud noises, vibration, fumes, dust, odors, and mists. | X | |||
Must be able to ascend and descend ladders, stairs, or other equipment. | X | |||
Subject to exposure to hazardous material. | X |
We are an Equal Opportunity/Protected Veteran/Disabled Employer committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable culture for our employees and communities.
Other
Insurance
$70k-85k (estimate)
06/20/2024
08/18/2024
sanitas.com
AARAU, AARGAU
200 - 500
1958
Private
<$5M
Insurance
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