Position Title: Temporary Asthma Navigator

Division: Pulmonary

Duration: 1 year
Salary range: $18.59 - $22.37

Representative Responsibilities:

• Participates as member of the multi-disciplinary team and assists with the coordination of care among children with asthma, their families, their school health teams, their health care providers, and community resources including face to face home visits to both children with asthma and their families, providing asthma education, assessing asthma control, and identifying social determinants of health (SDOH) needs and gaps in care and asthma management.
• Communicate with families and the care team through multiple channels such as in-person visits, community/school events (prioritized), phone calls, emails, faxes, letters.
• Assess and help address social determinants of health, including referrals to multi-disciplinary teams and community resources/organizations.
• Facilitate communication with care providers across hospital and community-based care settings concerning asthma management including parental concerns, SDOH needs and care gaps
• Partner and collaborate with community partners such as schools (including school health teams) to identify students with asthma and provide support for students with asthma, such as assessing asthma control, and providing tailored education and support
• Collaborate with school health teams to understand the community and school environment and build a supportive infrastructure for collecting information related to asthma.
• Organize, coordinate, and deliver asthma-related interventions to children/families in coordination with their asthma providers, primary care providers and school health teams
• Collect and submit data including process-related metrics in a standardized manner to the ALHS team on a scheduled basis. Team meetings will be primarily conducted via teleconferencing. Summary reports will be presented to the ALHS team on a quarterly basis
• Attend trainings and ongoing professional development opportunities to further competency in asthma management, community health navigation, and specific developed interventions.