Positions

Posted
Fri., April 14

Organization
Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Urology

Position Description
The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Urology is seeking to hire a community health worker. In 2021, Massachusetts General Brigham (MGB) received a grant to fund the United Against Racism initiative to dismantle institutional racism and provide more equitable care across the hospital system. This grant has funded a project across Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Urology for the Prostate Cancer Outreach Clinic, which is focused on improving access to equitable prostate cancer care by providing community outreach, patient and provider education, and robust patient navigation. The community health worker will spearhead the above and work on research based on this project.

Responsibilities include:

• Establishing successful practices for community outreach and decision coaching
• Working with underserved communities to identify and engage patients in need of prostate cancer screening and care
• Creating a trusting relationship with the patient while serving as the patient’s liaison between health services and their community
• Making follow-up virtual visits and closely communicating with the provider team based on clear goals set out through the referral process
• Engaging patients and their families in setting their own short-term care goals
  • Tracking benchmarks along the way toward the achievement of these goals
• Aiding patients in the coordination and completion of appointments
• Working with patients to help decrease barriers to timely care

• Completing basic data management and analysis associated with the MGB Urology Virtual Prostate Outreach and Screening Program

Position Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of business and medical terminology and an excellent command of the English language
• Excellent organizational, communication, program planning, and operations management skills
• In-depth understanding of hospital and practice policies, procedures, and operations to assume a variety of administrative details, including software systems, patient access processes, information systems and medical processes
• Must be resourceful in obtaining information when it is not readily available
• Computer system/technical proficiency
• Ability to handle, in a professional manner, a heavy and diverse workload in an active healthcare environment
• Analytical ability necessary to handle administrative details such as preparing special, nonrecurring reports by combining confidential data from several sources
• Proficiency in a language other than English a plus
• Associate degree or higher-level education a plus

Time Commitment
Full-time

Compensation
TBD

Apply
To apply, visit the website. You may also email Katie Merport to learn more about the position.