Community Resource Specialist

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Time Type:
Part time

Department:
Community Resource & Wellness Center

All Locations:
East Boston

Position Summary:

The Community Resource Specialist will perform a wide variety of administrative and support activities to support the Care Navigation team in addressing social determinant of health needs.

The Community Resource and Wellness Center supports community members with accessing basic needs such as rental assistance, food access, legal/immigration resources, domestic violence resources, and other financial supports.

These functions will enable the Community Resource and Wellness Center to provide patient services efficiently and improve delivery of care.

Duties will include phone intake and triage, scheduling and coordination of onsite programs such as food pantry, clothing and car seat drives.

The Community Resource Specialist will also support the team with updating community resource flyers for patients, maintaining the resource database, and connecting with community based organizations to collaborate and share resources.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities                     


* Promptly answer incoming calls to the Community Resource and Wellness Center and interacts with all callers in a professional, respectful, courteous, and effective manner.


* Provide phone triage, provides resource information to connect to services of immediate need


* Navigate EPIC/Care Navigation CRM to access relevant and appropriate information, document needed services


* Key staff member for food distribution: maintain sign up spreadsheets, onsite coordination of food distribution.


* Cradles to Crayons- referral entry and ordering.  Support Care Navigator in order fulfillment and distribution


* Support RAFT workshops: registering patients and reminder calls


* Oversight of CRWC email: respond to emails, schedule patients or services, create CRM for CN follow up as needed


* Support Care Navigators with the coordination of car seat program


* Update Community resource handouts


* Maintain ex...