SOM Emergency Medicine is seeking a Community Health Worker (CHW). The CHW will actively promote primary and secondary prevention services through team-based care delivered primarily in Baltimore city public schools and other identified community sites. The CHW will be in close contact with the program co-directors and serve as a link between the schools, the hospital, and other referral destinations for children and adolescents with psychiatric emergencies. This position will be supervised by the co-directors of the hospital-school liaison program for suicide prevention.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Coordinate services for students in schools who need outside support for psychiatric emergencies.
• Co-lead educational sessions with families in schools.
• Establish rapport with school staff and students.
• Provide general information regarding the project to community and school members.
• Respond to inquiries about the project, including face-to-face, over the phone/text, and web-based conversations.
• Assist the team with data collection, make outreach and data collection schedule reminder calls and emails, prepare outreach and follow-up data collection materials.
• Monitor recruitment and retention of project participants
• Document outreach and follow-up activities and enter data as appropriate in a timely, accurate, and comprehensive manner per project protocol.
• File, retrieve, and maintain participant records.
• Perform all work activities per established protocols and procedures.
• Attend weekly meetings and trainings.
• Maintain confidentiality of all participants in accordance with employers’ procedures.
• With appropriate training and supervision as needed by employer, deliver intervention program to enrolled schools.
• Other duties as appropriately assigned.

• High school diploma or graduation equivalent.
• Two years of related experience.
• Additional education may substitute for required experience to the extent permitted by the JHU equivalency formula.

• Fluent English (additional knowledge of Spanish preferred).
• Experience working with and/or is from the target community.
• Must have his/her own transportation to travel around the study areas and be comfortable working in the field, including interacting regularly with children and adolescents and their parents about mental health-related subject matters.
• Strong organizational skills with ability to work independently and prioritize multiple tasks.
• Must be willing to be trained as a community health worker.

Classified Title: Community Outreach Specialist
Job Posting Title (Working Title): Community Health Worker (SOM, Pediatric Emergency Medicine)
Role/Level/Range: ACRO37.5/02/CC
Starting Salary Range: $16.10 - $26.90 HRLY ($44,000 targeted; Commensurate w/exp.)
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: Hours and Days may vary
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Location: Hybrid/School of Medicine Campus
Department name: SOM Ped Emergency Medicine
Personnel area: School of Medicine