Community Health Advocate (HIV)
Community Health Advocate (HIV)
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05-06-2025
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Job Description
Asian Health Services founded in 1974 provides health social and advocacy services for all regardless of income insurance status immigration status language or culture. Our approach to wellbeing focuses on whole patient health which is why we provide more than primary care services including mental health case management nutrition and dental care to more than 50000 patients in English and 15 languages: Korean Lao Burmese Mandarin Cantonese Spanish Portuguese French Mien Karen Mongolian Karenni Tagalog Khmer and Vietnamese. We offer medical dental and mental health services for all ages.
Location: HIV Clinic
Job Summary:
Contributes as a team member to facilitate and enhance access to appropriate utilization of and satisfaction with AHS services by patients and community members. Helps to plan and implement advocacy activities through patient and community education and engagement. Job functions span duties in Member Services Support Services Clinical Services and Community Services. The assignment of tasks and the percentage of time spent in each area will be determined by the Program Manager in consultation with managers and supervisors in those work areas. This will vary by position and may shift depending on staffing levels (sickness vacation leaves) and as patient and community need change.
Honeycomb Hideout 510 (HCH510):
Honeycomb Hideout 510 (HCH510) was founded in 2017 by the Asian Health Services HIV Prevention and Care department to bring local awareness and advocacy to HIV/AIDS and the communities that it impacts most deeply. HCH510 offers:
-Free HIV and Hepatitis C rapid testing
-Training and education for HIV prevention sexual health and risk reduction and LGBTQIA health topics
-Medical case management ADAP enrollment and Ryan White services for individuals living with HIV
-Navigation and linkage services for STI testing and PrEP/PEP
-Peer advocacy and services from LGBTQIA staff
Essential Job Functions
- Conduct and document health education and outreach activities on various health topics (e.g. access to health care/health insurance perinatal AIDS smoking cessation etc.) in a linguistically and culturally appropriate manner with small-large groups and individuals.
- Conduct perinatal workshops and participate in planning implementing and monitoring changes to improve the quality of perinatal services particularly for our smaller communities. Includes but not limited to participating in meetings and training.
- Conduct community needs assessments and evaluation activities through various formats (e.g. focus groups community surveys patient surveys key informant interviews) and participate in planning effective programs and services for AHS patients and Asian immigrant communities.
- Develop and maintain contacts and working relations with staff at other organizations serving the Asian immigrant community.
- Represent AHS in various community forums and meetings. (This should be a separate line)
- Coordinate and participate in health education materials development: a) Develop or adapt educational materials for cultural appropriateness in a variety of formats (written video displays/posters PowerPoint presentations etc.) b) Translate c) Design d) Duplicate e) Review materials for readability translation quality and cultural appropriateness and f) coordinate or participate in Clinic-Health Ed Materials Committee meetings.
- Patient Leadership Council: a) Identify and recruit potential patients for PLC involvement b) Plan attend and facilitate PLC meetings c) Assist PLC members in identifying and carrying out their plans d) Develop and train PLC members in advocacy/leadership skill e) Identify issue/problem in the community to achieve AHS goals. e) Write a summary monthly PLC meeting report.
- Coordinate the collection of data summarize and write evaluation reports for funding requirements.
- Create a welcoming environment in the waiting area that addresses patients needs by greeting scanning for difficulties such as long waits or delays answering questions assisting and directing patients to appropriate services and staff in the organization.
- Conduct outreach/education activities and patient surveys in the waiting room.
- Back-up to provide phone on-site and message-relay interpreting services for all healthcare-related interactions between patients and any AHS staff (e.g. front desk interactions triage clinicians billing perinatal behavioral health nutrition dental AMSHO etc.)
- Provide interpreting services during educational workshops and activities special events meetings hearings media events and other organizational activities.
- Observe current codes of ethics and standards of practice for health care interpreting (e.g. interprets all speakers messages accurately and completely; transparently carries out various interpreter interventions such as cultural brokering to facilitate clear communication between speakers; etc.)
- Sight-translate written materials between English and language of service.
- Interpret over the phone on occasion for other health care organizations and providers.
- Translate written clinic health education and organizational materials acting as primary translator word-processor editor proofreader and/or back-translator as assigned.
- Participate in developing and implementing tools and activities to a) assess language proficiency and interpreting skills and b) train and develop language proficiency and medical terminology among AHS staff.
- Greet and register patients update patients records and create and distribute forms related to patients visits.
- Verify insurance and financial status of patients and update records.
- Determine and explain to patients the extent of their insurance benefits and payment responsibilities and collect insurance co-payments.
- Answer and appropriately handle intercom and phone calls. Assess callers needs and assist them in getting their needs met.
- Facilitate internal and external referrals and appointments: Schedule cancel and reschedule referrals and appointments as needed. Internally includes all AHS services appointments (e.g. medical clinic eligibility nutrition dental behavioral health special clinics health education etc.). Externally includes appointments for specialists hospitals clinics diagnostic testing treatment and other organizations providing health and social services.
- Make daily appointment reminder calls to assigned patients.
- Anticipate and take pro-active steps to identify and avoid patient problems. Facilitate resolution of problems that are within AHS departments between AHS departments or involve external organizations providers and services. Includes but not limited to billing issues medication requests/refills/questions lab results specimen collection equipment loan eligibility referrals etc.
- Assist patients to complete all healthcare-related paperwork including but not limited to 32 weeks prenatal records CHDP forms medical record releases disability WIC pregnancy verification MSP and other requests. Process their paperwork.
- Assist medical records to pull charts retrieve or return medical records respond to requests for Release of Medical Records copy patient records and participate in the annual purge of medical records.
- Carry out phone and mail communications with patients related to their health care needs and AHS treatment and services. Includes but is not limited to broken appointments.
- Conducts patient financial screening to determine eligibility for County Medical Services Program (CMSP) Medicare Medi-Cal Healthy Families and other payment sources.
- Assists patients in completing forms and applications for payment programs. Follows up on patients pending status for payment programs.
- Assists patients in selecting a primary care provider and a health insurance plan including PPO and HMO.
- Contacts health plan and insurance company to verify patients insurance coverage and referral requirement; may assist in completing Medi-Cal applications and perform status follow-up with the countys Medi-Cal worker.
- Updates patient financial information.
- Answer inquiries and provides counseling regarding Medi-Cal and Medicare and their managed care systems and other social service needs.
- Answers phone calls and make appointments for members.
- Assists the Member Services Manager in conducting member exit interviews and in processing monthly member rosters for all AHS contracted managed care plans.
- Provides advocacy for AHS patients/members due to government welfare reform and immigration policies.
- Conduct medical history intake interviews for all patients including new patients newborn infants and perinatal patients
Waiting Area Duties
Interpreting Translation Duties
Support Services Duties: CHA as back-up
Patient Eligibility: CHA as back-up
General Agency/AHS Duties
- Fosters an environment that promotes trust and cooperation among clients and staff.
- Enforces clinic policies and procedures including maintenance of client confidentiality under HIPAA privacy rules to ensure that the principles of AHS are implemented.
- Plays an active role in planning organization-wide activities such as AHS general membership meetings fundraisers special clinic days and other events.
- Participates in general membership meetings fundraisers and other public events as required.
- Participates in outreach activities agency advocacy and serves on ad hoc committees as requested.
- Attends AHS staff retreats and Board of Directors meetings as required.
- Participates in agency-wide quality improvement program processes and performance improvement teams to ensure excellence in the quality of services provided across the agency
Minimum Qualifications
- A Bachelors degree and two years of work-related experience in a health setting -OR-
- A high school diploma and four years of relevant work experience
- Ability to speak read and write in a high proficiency level in an Asian language (Vietnamese Cantonese and/or Mandarin).
Preferred Qualifications
- Preferred Bachelors degree majors: health social service or other closely-related fields
- Experience working in the community health field LGBTQ community and HIV prevention
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- The relationship between advocacy and improving the health of the Asian community.
- Cultural socioeconomic and political factors affecting health in immigrant and refugee Asian communities.
- Health social services and community resources/leaders in at least one API community.
- Leading and working with diverse staff and community members respectfully and collaboratively.
- Innovative cooperative and collaborative problem-solving.
- Planning and coordinating small-medium scale projects and events.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills bother oral and written.
- Organizing and engaging immigrant communities in education and advocacy activities.
- Proficiency in or ability to learn English and Asian language word processing.
- Ability to work under pressure and handle multiple tasks.
- Ability to exercise good judgment.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
- Available to work on weekends and evenings as needed.
- Decisions have a broad impact on a patients experience at AHS.
- High level of concentration required to coordinate multiple program tasks problem-solving with external organizations and coordination with other departments and programs of the entire organization.
Physical & Work Demands
- The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Rapid intense especially when faced with program and advocacy activity deadlines. Standing required about 20-25% of the time includes walking around. Time speaking and listening require about 75-90% of the time mainly communicating with patients staff and outside agencies and organizations. Environmental and health hazards minimal exposure however will face job stress periodically.
$30.65 - $31.85 an hour
BENEFITS:
Medical Dental Vision premiums 100% paid by AHS
12 Vacation Days
12 Sick Days
12 Holidays and 3 Floating Holidays
3% 403B Employer Contributions and up to 2% Employee Match Contribution
Transportation Benefit Paid by AHS
FSA/Dependent Care Assistance
Long Term Disability
Employment Type
Full-Time
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