Onsite - Community Health Worker I - Mercy Hospital STL
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Summary
About the Role
About You
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- 1-year experience as a Community Health Worker or equivalent.
- Mercy provided Community Health Worker training certificate within 6-12 months.
- Strong relationship and collaboration skills.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Compassion for poor and underserved members of the community.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Applications and ability to document in an EMR.
- Access to reliable transportation.
- Additional language skills applicable to the community.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid time off.
- Tuition support.
- Matched retirement plans for team members working 32+ hours per pay period.
Mercy, one of the 15 largest U.S. health systems and named the top large system in the U.S. for excellent patient experience by NRC Health, serves millions annually with nationally recognized care and one of the nation’s largest and highest performing Accountable Care Organizations in quality and cost. Mercy is a highly integrated, multi-state health care system including 50 acute care and specialty (heart, children’s, orthopedic and rehab) hospitals, convenient and urgent care locations, imaging centers and pharmacies. Mercy has over 1,000 physician practice locations and outpatient facilities, more than 5,000 physicians and advanced practitioners and more than 50,000 co-workers serving patients and families across Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. Mercy also has clinics, outpatient services and outreach ministries in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. In fiscal year 2024 alone, Mercy provided nearly half a billion dollars of free care and other community benefits, including traditional charity care and unreimbursed Medicaid.