Community Health Workers
Assist individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. Conduct outreach for medical personnel or health organizations to implement programs in the community that promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health. May provide information on available resources, provide social support and informal counseling, advocate for individuals and community health needs, and provide services such as first aid and blood pressure screening. May collect data to help identify community health needs.
Also called: Community Health Outreach Worker, Community Health Program Coordinator, Community Health Promoter, Community Nutrition Educator
Knowledge:
- customer service
- management
- teaching and course design
Skills:
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- talking to others
- understanding people's reactions
- looking for ways to help people
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Abilites:
- listen and understand what people say
- communicate by speaking
- notice when problems happen
- use rules to solve problems
Personality:
Description: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need
- Dependability
- Integrity
- Cooperation
- Adaptability/Flexibility
- Independence
- Initiative
Technology:
Data base user interface and query software
- Client databases
- Microsoft Access
- Electronic health record EHR software
