What are the responsibilities and job description for the Public Health Fellow position at AmeriCorps?
The Esperanza Center Health Clinic serves members of the Baltimore metropolitan area’s immigrant community who are uninsured and uninsurable under the Affordable Care Act. In addition to significant financial barriers to accessing health care, immigrants also face linguistic, knowledge-based, and cultural barriers. The Clinic fills a critical gap in health care access as the only primary care clinic in Maryland whose service model is structured to provide uninsured immigrants with access to free, dignified, and culturally competent health care. Current Clinic services include primary care for adults and children, dental services, on-site specialty services, diagnostic services (labs and imaging), immunization and lead testing, and referrals to community resources for patient’s specialized medical and non-medical needs. The Clinic is able to serve a broad patient community with limited staff due to its organization as a free clinic and affiliation as a member of the National Association for Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC). Healthcare outreach workers (and the AmeriCorps member specifically) represent an important aspect of the Clinic's ability to both sustain a largely volunteer run operation, and ensure we are able to offer patients a holistic care model that values their time, voice, and humanity. The AmeriCorps member will expand the Clinic's ability to recruit and manage new clinical and administrative volunteers, engage new partners and enrich existing partnerships, support an approach to patient communication that is human-centered and accessible, and ensure appropriate written Standard Operating Procedures are in place to ensure continuity of care and policy regardless of potential changes to staff or the service environment. The AmeriCorps member(s) will also have direct patient interaction, administering mental and physical health surveys to diabetic patients, as well as assisting patients in accessing resources external to the clinic.
Member Duties : The AmeriCorps member will: Participate in community outreach events to reach new patients and potential volunteers; Help design, implement and monitor the clinic’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to boost efficiency in scheduling, communication, volunteer recruitment, and referral processes; Conduct client satisfaction surveys to track and assess patient outcomes; Administer the PHQ-4 and CDC Healthy Days survey to new patients at their first appointment and after establishing care at the clinic to measure its impact; Identify/develop relations with other agencies for Latino immigrants and keep a updated resource list; Help patients with referrals to other agencies; Assist with volunteer onboarding; Participates in meetings and trainings.
Program Benefits : Training , Education award upon successful completion of service , Living Allowance , Childcare assistance if eligible , Health Coverage .
Terms :
Car recommended , Permits working at another job during off hours , Permits attendance at school during off hours .
Car recommended , Permits working at another job during off hours , Permits attendance at school during off hours .
Service Areas :
Health , Public Health AmeriCorps , Community Outreach .
Health , Public Health AmeriCorps , Community Outreach .
Skills :
Public Health , General Skills .
Public Health , General Skills .
SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps State / National
Program
Public Health Fellow
Program Start/End Date
03/01/2025 - 02/28/2026
Work Schedule
Part Time
Education level
College graduate
Age Requirement
Minimum: None Maximum: None
Program Locations
MARYLAND Washington/Baltimore
Languages
Spanish
English
Accepting Applications
From 01/15/2025 To 05/30/2025
Contact
Yaneldis Boullon
Esperanza Center Health Clinic
Baltimore MD 21231
667-600-2920
yboullon@cc-md.org
www.catholiccharities-md.org
Listing ID
113021
