Seeking a caring and passionate Community Health Worker to join a community action agency serving our local communities in Hartford and Middlesex Counties. They're dedicated to helping people take steps toward healthy and economically stable futures. You'll join an organization that offers dozens of programs every single day, helping tens of thousands of individuals and families every year. They're making changes to help people create new opportunities for a brighter tomorrow.

Interested? Apply now or reach out directly to Nicampana@actalentservices. com

Job Description:

Serve as a liaison between health & social services and the community to facilitate access to services and improve the quality and cultural competence of service delivery. Responsible for being a trusted member of the community, where you can be engaged to provide psychosocial support to participants who were at increased need for providing an array of street-based harm reduction services.

Job Duties:

• Perform outreach activities and prevention education to foster good community relations, educate about program services and assess needs in Hartford neighborhoods where there is utilization of 911 for crisis intervention.

• Engage high-risk, hard to reach people who use drugs or engage in sex work, including injection drug users.

• Identify potential recruitment locations. Engage in dialogue with participants and other community members to continually improve our services.

• Culturally appropriate health promotion and health education such as safer sex and safer drug use education and distribute syringes and other health-related resources and tools (and collect used syringes) in accordance with public health regulations.

• In a manner consistent with Harm Reduction principles, provide substance use and sexual risk assessments and discuss individualized risk reduction and harm reduction strategies (including safer injection practices; safer sex practices; overdose prevention and reversal; drug use management techniques; HIV, HCV and STI prevention; and other topics relevant to people who use drugs).

• Provide low-threshold referrals and connect participants with medical care, substance use and mental health treatment, and other life-stabilizing services. 

• Solicit and track feedback from participants to ensure that the agencies to which we refer are effective and treat participants with respect and in a manner appropriate to harm reduction programs. This includes, helping connect to schedule appointments to identified service/resource.

• Emphasizes person-centered, recovery-oriented approaches and interventions

• Prepares participants to recognize and respond to various mental health and addiction crisis, including trauma; develop effective communication and connection skills.

• Establish and maintain enhanced communication between community members and providers

• Model proper participant engagement and outreach for other staff, peers, and volunteers.

• Provide guidance and mentorship as necessary.

• Keep accurate, consistent, complete records and data on all program activities and/ or participants; provide program director with reports in a timely manner.

Schedule:

Two Shifts Needed

Shift One: Sunday through Thursday 1-10pm

Shift Two: Tues through Saturday 1-10 pm

Qualifications:

• Associates with an approved combination of experience, certification, and or education.
• A minimum of three years of experience in client case management.
• Community Health Worker (CHW) preferred
• Valid Driver’s
• Bilingual preferred

About Actalent

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

• Hiring diverse talent
• Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection
• Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes
• Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.