Community Health Worker

Community Health Specialist Senior

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

Worker Type: Regular

Job Highlights:

Join a team where your work matters every moment, every patient, every community. At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact. As a Community Health Specialist Senior for the Oklahoma Region, you'll serve as a key connector between SSM Health and the communities we serve across Oklahoma County, Pottawatomie County, and Seminole County, leading initiatives that improve health outcomes, increase access to resources, and address social determinants of health. In this meaningful role, you'll build partnerships with community organizations, analyze community health needs, coordinate programs and outreach efforts, and help develop innovative strategies that support healthier individuals and stronger communities. If you are passionate about advancing health equity, fostering community relationships, and creating sustainable solutions that make a difference, this is an opportunity to drive lasting impact beyond the walls of healthcare.

Schedule: M-F 8am-5pm - fully onsite.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in community health or public health.
• Strong communication skills.
• High level of organization.
• Flexibility and ability to manage multiple projects and programs simultaneously

Preferred Education:

• Masters in Public Health or related field

Job Summary:

Lead and implement community health partnerships, programs, and activities throughout the community the ministry serves. Maximize the related reporting of qualifying expenses.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serves as the market leader to conduct the Community Health Needs Assessments (CHNA) including the collection and analysis of internal and external data in service of the CHNA processes.
• Facilitates collaboration with community stakeholders in the CHNA process, creatively adds value to the CHNA by leveraging SSM Health assets across the markets and ensure community engagement including diverse groups within the community in the CHNA process.
• Ensures successful completion and implementation of a Community Health Improvement Plan including the design, implementation and evaluation of policies, program and services that align with identify community health needs.
• Builds and maintains a successful level of community engagement with community members, partners and collaborators in a culturally aware and competent manner and ensures that the diverse perspectives of internal and external stakeholders are honored.
• Brings about collaboration and improved health in the communities served by the ministry and identifies public policy advocacy opportunities aligned with community health needs and organizational advocacy leadership.
• Partners in strategic thinking and organizational leadership as part of a region-wide community health improvement strategy.
• Promotes public health principles within the broader activities and efforts of SSM Health and helps co-workers understand connections between community health efforts and the mission and values of SSM Health while also generating co-worker engagement in community health and reporting.
• Plans and manages community health improvement activities that includes managing a local budget and accomplishing community benefit reporting in a thorough, timely and accurate manner.
• Evaluates the impact of policies, programs and services to support informed decisions about future activities and programming.
• Develops expertise in reporting and champions further clarity in reporting practices across the region in partnership with other community health leaders.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

EXPERIENCE

• Three years experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs.
• Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Frequent keyboard use/data entry.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs.
• Rare climbing.

REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS

• None

Department: Chief Community Health Officer

Work Shift: Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

SSM Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. SSM Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.