Health Advocate (limited term)

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Description

Venice Family Clinic is a leader in providing comprehensive, high-quality health care to people in need regardless of their income, insurance or immigration status. The organization has more than 500 staff who serve 45,000 people with compassion, dignity and respect across an area that spans from the Santa Monica Mountains through the South Bay. We have a network of clinics, Early Head Start centers and mobile clinics plus an expansive street medicine program to reach people experiencing homelessness. Read more about us at venicefamilyclinic.org

Make a difference in the community as a Health Advocate with our Venice Family Clinic. This role will assist with follow-ups, referrals, appointments, reporting, monitoring, and maintaining an effective record-keeping system to ensure health and disabilities requirements are fulfilled in the Head Start Performance Standards. This position will receive guidance and direction from the Children First Early Head Start Health Services Manager, and will perform other duties as assigned by management.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core values of the Venice Family Clinic. We believe the professional and clinical environments are enhanced when diverse groups of people with diverse ideas come together.

Please note that this is a full-time 5-month limited position and may convert to career.

Salary range: $28.78 - $59.34 Hourly

Qualifications

Required:

• Good verbal and written communication skills, and bilingual in Spanish (verbal/oral).
• Good interpersonal skills; ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with staff, children, parents, and other agencies.
• Ability to exercise professional judgment, evaluate information before making decisions, and maintain all information in strict confidentiality.
• Experience working with Childplus.net and Nextgen databases, internet, and MS Office Suite (MS Excel and Word).
• A valid CA State driver's license, ability to travel to other locations as needed, and schedule flexibility.

Preferred:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical procedures, medical documentation, and governmental regulations.
• Ability to assess information, solve practical problems, and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.