National Health Corps North Florida

If you are interested in applying for the National Health Corps (NHC), you must complete a Member Application: my.nationalhealthcorps.org. Once your application is received, you will be contacted about the status of your application and next steps. NHC Florida is a program of the NHC AmeriCorps program and is administered by Northeast Healthy Start Coalition, a sub-grantee of NHC’s national organization, the Health Federation of Philadelphia. NHC operates in 6 regions of the United States: Central California, Florida, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. NHC members complete 1,700 hours of service over 42-46 weeks. Most member service activities take place at their host sites. Members’ host site service activities include COVID-19 response, care coordination, case management, health education, outreach coordination, and patient navigation. NHC members will produce significant and unique contributions to host sites' existing efforts to improve health outcomes in underserved communities by engaging in activities that confront community health needs, but would not otherwise be possible due to the lack of adequate funding, staffing, and resources at their host sites. Members are assigned a host site mentor who provides mentorship, supervision, and access to professional development opportunities at the host site. Members also participate in ongoing professional development, team-building, and additional outside/group service and committee activities through their NHC program. NHC and its partners strive to ensure that members can contribute to the capacity and reach of their host sites and have a rewarding experience that exposes them to a variety of health-focused careers. Member Duties Members are placed in resource-limited organizations and provide health/public health education and access services. The National Health Corps (NHC) program proposes to: 1) increase the number of well-trained, compassionate, confident and resilient individuals who will become the health/public health service providers and leaders of the future and contribute to decreasing the national healthcare workforce shortage; 2) increase access to healthcare through addressing factors affecting health in communities plagued by inadequate healthcare; 3) improve organizational efficiencies, community engagement and reach of services addressing factors affecting health. Unique position descriptions outline host site service duties for members. Professional development includes supervision, training, group and outside service, member committees, volunteer engagement, and a retreat. Program Benefits Stipend Childcare assistance if eligible Health Coverage Education award upon successful completion of service Training Terms None Service Areas Health Community and Economic Development Education Skills Public Health Communications Education Team Work Social Services Leadership #J-18808-Ljbffr AmeriCorps & Senior Corps