Community Health Specialist - Adoption Assistance Program, 2025-589

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Job Title:Community Health Specialist - Adoption Assistance Program

Department:10152-Occupational & Environmntl Medicine

Location:Farmington

FTE%:1

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Search #:2025-589

Closing Date:12/15/2024

Recruiter:Alexander, Donna

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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership, and Innovation. These values define UConn Health. We are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top-rated organization is looking to add a Community Health Specialist to our growing adoption assistance team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.

At UConn Health, this class is accountable for performing as a specialist in the planning and evaluation of clients in the adoption assistance program and providing advanced ongoing community support services to adoption/guardianship families.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED:

Receives general direction from an employee of higher grade.

SUPERVISION EXERCISED:

May lead or supervise lower-level employees as assigned.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES:

Assists in performing assessments/screenings on new and continuing clients and families; works in collaboration with care team in formulating treatment/service plans; may provide analytical support to the department with the goal of promoting high quality and cost-effective outcomes. attends staff and team meetings and case conferences to provide consultation and/or referral for

further intervention; provides support to clients and families; consults with staff and community resources; engages patients and families in problem solving techniques in their own environment; may compile and organize healthcare data and record data in client's charts; prepares summaries, reports, and program progress updates; maintains client's confidentiality; performs other duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY:

Considerable knowledge of community resources/programs and providing supplementary assistance to clients/families as required by program/project; considerable knowledge of dynamics of individuals and families in the community; knowledge of social, psychological, medical, economic and legal factors influencing individual and group behavior; considerable knowledge of clinical operations and patient care; knowledge of and proficiency in applicable computer software applications; knowledge of quality regulatory programs; strong oral and written communication skills; considerable interpersonal skills; ability to plan and execute service programs to meet client needs; ability to respond to crises under pressure/deadlines; ability to work with chronically and terminally ill/physically impaired individuals and their families, if required by program/project; if specified, ability to read, write both English and Spanish and to communicate information in either language to staff, clients and others.

EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING:

General Experience:

Five (5) years' experience in community healthcare, human services, or social services programs as specified.

SUBSTITUTION ALLOWED:

College training in social work, counseling, psychology or other related field may substitute for the General Experience based on fifteen (15) semester hours equaling one half (1/2) year of experience to a maximum of four (4) years.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Employees in this class will be required to travel within the State in the course of their daily wo.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE:

Master's degree in social work (MSW) or a related field, or Education (M.Ed.).

At least three (3) years' experience working in a school setting.

At least three (3) years' experience working with adoptive/guardianship families.

Bilingual/fluent in Spanish

SCHEDULE: Full time, 40 hours per week, primarily Monday - Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, flexibility needed to accommodate program and organizational needs, 60-minute unpaid meal break.

Why UConn Health

UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.

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