Community Health Representative – Durant
Job Description
Job Summary or Objective: The Community Health Representative provides in-home care, health education, and support services to tribal members. This role coordinates appointments, helps with medications, and ensures culturally appropriate communication and outreach.
Location: Durant
Schedule: Regular/Full-Time – 8am-4:30pm, Monday-Friday
Pay: $19.30/hr
This position requires you to be on call 24/7
Wage access is an option for this position.
Primary Tasks
- Serve as a liaison between Indian communities, tribal programs, and facilities through regular home visits to ensure patient medical needs are met.
- Conduct individualized home assessments, monitor vital signs, provide disease prevention education, and remain on 24-hour call due to the nature of the role.
- Assist with scheduling appointments, arranging transportation, refilling medications, organizing weekly pill planners, and translating instructions to match patients’ cognitive and language needs.
- Deliver in-home health education, review service plans, and perform follow-ups to assess service quality and patient progress.
- Advocate for clients to access services and benefits from tribal, local, state, and federal agencies.
- Organize monthly health education meetings, facilitate service connections, and lead traditional cooking classes as part of outreach initiatives.
- Translate and interpret the Choctaw language for elder patients and incorporate cultural understanding of traditional healing practices.
- Provide wound care, monitor in-home medical equipment, and maintain appropriate certifications, (CPR, First Aid, Wound Care).
- Maintain confidential client records, document visits and services, and prepare monthly reports using manual or electronic systems.
- Perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Job Requirements
- Valid driver's license
- Knowledge of the Privacy Act, and understand confidentiality practices with relations to Health privacy laws
- Knowledge in basic anatomy/physiology, normal medical values, medical terminology, and nutritional and dietary needs disease etiology and resource
- Ability to take Vitals, Blood Pressure, Glucose Monitoring, and Knowledge of Normal/Abnormal Readings
- Understanding of Choctaw language, practices, culture, & religion practices
- Two [2] years of experience in home health or healthcare related field