Community Health Worker (Multiple Positions)

New Jersey's academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences ( RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University-New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state-at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark's University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is seeking a Community Health Worker for NJMS- Hematology/Oncology. The Community Health Worker ( CHW) works closely with the EPWC Coordinator as well as our collaborators to identify persons in need of preventive services, to refer such persons to such services, and to increase knowledge of cancer, chronic disease, and COVID-19 through education, health-related programming, prevention, and screenings. The CHW also works toward increasing the health literacy of the populations of Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as other areas statewide. CHW should have deep roots or similar lived experiences to the residents of the communities they will serve. The CHW acquires and maintains knowledge of relevant preventive health resources, maintain detailed, confidential records of persons they refer to such resources, and aid in developing relationships, trust, and mutual respect and understanding between the EPWC and multiple communities in Essex and Passaic Counties, as well as in other areas of New Jersey in conjunction with our collaborators.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Standing, walking, sitting, talking and hearing. No special vision requirements, except as needed for driving. This position also requires the ability to lift up to 30 lbs.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: This position will have a variety of work environments in communities throughout New Jersey. These include: Moderate noise areas such as patient care areas and typical work officer areas. This position will also require the individual to go out into the communities where they can be in either low, moderate, or high volume areas. This position may require the individual to work part-time in the offices of providers of preventive health and related services, where the individual will have to abide by all health and safety requirements of such offices.