# Community Health Worker - Kane County, Illinois

**Company**: Waymark
**Location**: Kane County, Illinois
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23.08 - $26.20
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/waymark/jobs/4653172005
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_dcf52b35-685

## Description

As a Community Health Worker, you will be Waymark's frontline presence in the community, connecting with patients to provide social support, advocacy, and navigation. You will work to improve the health of patients from low-income communities by connecting them with various providers and resources.

Key responsibilities include attending a 2-3 week long paid training program, meeting patients in the community, in the home, and in healthcare facilities to conduct a needs assessment, helping patients with health-related social issues, and managing relationships with healthcare facility providers.

Minimum qualifications include being highly organized and self-motivated, having sound judgment and the ability to quickly analyze situations, and being able to work with a diverse community in an empathetic, passionate, and professional manner.

Preferred qualifications include having a Community Health Worker certification, being a long-time resident of the Kane County area, and having experience conducting home visits and outreach.

In addition to salary, Waymark offers a comprehensive benefits package, including stock options, a work-from-home stipend, medical, vision, and dental coverage, life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, retirement savings, commuter benefits, and a professional development stipend.

## Skills

### Required
- community health worker certification
- ability to work with diverse communities
- sound judgment
- highly organized and self-motivated

### Nice to have
- long-time resident of Kane County area
- experience conducting home visits and outreach