First Steps Community Health Worker/PASOs team member
Job Description
Time: 40hrs /week
Days per year: 245
The PASOs Community Health Worker/First Steps Specialist will assist families with developmental screening in home visits in the Berkeley-Dorchester County area.
Access to services (50%)
- Conduct intake interviews in person or over the phone
- Refer clients to resources as needed and in accordance with PASOs standards and protocols
- Conduct home visits
- Administer the ASQ3 screenings to children between the ages of 0-5 during home visits with families
- Provide follow up support and assistance in navigation of relevant referrals and benefits
- Provide support and education to parents in subject related to their child’s development including health, literacy and education.
Program Administrative Support and Training (25%)
- Maintain records of all:
- Outreach events conducted
- Phone calls made and received (from promotores and families)
- Referrals made and received
- Trainings attended
- Meetings attended
- The number of ASQs administered and results of screenings
- Meet consistently with PASOs Program Coordinator and make reports and referrals as needed
- Participate in bi-annual PASOs training workshops
- Participate in monthly PASOs conference calls
- Participate in quarterly staff and board meetings for Berkeley County First Steps
Outreach (25%)
- Work with the Program Coordinator and Promotores to organize outreach
- Help organize outreach to the Latino community for enrollment in the program
- Attend community meetings as a PASOs or as a Berkeley County First Steps representative as needed
- Promote First Steps and PASOs in Berkeley and Dorchester County, SC
Minimum Training/Education
- Associates Degree in Human Services field or equivalent
- One year experience working or volunteering with the Hispanic community of the Charleston area.
- Bilingual (English-Spanish)
- Case management experience
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Preferred
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications such as Word-Excel-Powerpoint-Outlook
- Some college or equivalent experience
- Experience with databases
- Ability to multi-task a variety of functions
- Excellent Interpersonal skills to be able to interact with all levels of personnel in an academic and community setting
- Excellent communication skills
- Self-motivated / require little supervision