Resume and Skills for Community Health Worker

Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide intensive, low-barrier, individualized case management, and outreach-based support to guide patients and their family members in accessing community resources as well as encouraging the adoption of healthy habits. They work to address social determinants of health with a human rights focus utilizing strategies including harm reduction, health promotion, community engagement, community development, social justice, trauma-informed, and anti-racist/anti-oppressive (ARAO.

Skills required for a Community Health Worker role:

  • Strong Communication
  • Situational Awareness Teamwork
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Service Coordination
  • Cultural Responsiveness
  • Community Assessment
  • Public Health Regulations
  • Research Outreach
  • Policy Awareness
  • Empathy
  • Active Learning

What recruiters look for in a Community Health Worker's resume: 

  • Fully familiar with national compliances, policies, and procedures
  • Proficiency in medical terminology and Gentle Persuasion Approach Techniques (GPA)
  • Excellent presentation, and clinical documentation skills with the capability to educate
  • Willingness to work in varied environments including 1:1 in members’ homes, clinical settings, and shelters

What can make your Community Health Worker resume stand out:

A strong summary that demonstrates your skills, experience, and background in social work

  • Ardent community healthcare professional liaises between the patient, care team, and the community. Adept at delivering comprehensive primary health care services, including disease prevention and health promotion. Well-acquainted with the community, socioeconomic determinants of health, methods for enhancing health and self-care, and fundamental public health ideas.

Targeted job description 

  • Assist patients in the community—through home visits, attending medical appointments, and accessing other community-based resources.
  • Works directly with patients and their families to address social barriers to health.
  • Ensures member access to services appropriate to their health needs.

Related academic background 

  • B.A. Sociology from University Of Delhi, New Delhi | 2019
  • Higher Secondary from Saint John's Academy, New Delhi | 2016

Resume of Community Health Worker in Text Format

Anitha Indrappa

Community Health Worker

MadhavanI22@gmail.com | 9009529925 | New Delhi, India | LinkedIn

SUMMARY

Ardent community healthcare professional liaises between the patient, care team, and the community. Adept at delivering comprehensive primary health care services, including disease prevention and health promotion. Well-acquainted with the community, socioeconomic determinants of health, methods for enhancing health and self-care, and fundamental public health ideas.

EXPERIENCE/INTERNSHIP

Health Worker - Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurgaon | Jan 2020 - Present

  • Provide guidance to lower-level Community Health Workers (CHWs) on care coordination duties, performing outreach, enrollment activities, and health education.
  • Conduct outreach to a panel of patients for appointment scheduling needs assessment, and care gap closure.
  • Meet patients in the clinic, facility, and at home to help identify social determinants of health impacting patients’ health and general well-being.
  • Increase customer awareness and utilization of resources,
  • services, and programs by conducting community outreach health programs.
  • Collaborate with the behavioral health and physical health care teams regarding customer problems and needs.

Field  Health Worker - Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurgaon| Jan 2019- Dec 2019

  • Worked directly with community agencies, provider offices, and members to document and track ongoing activities, and results in an effective manner.
  • Adhered to policies and procedures to maintain personal safety, information security, and occupational health needs.
  • Managed daily records, handled reporting requirements, and kept detailed logs of field operations.

EDUCATION

B.A. Sociology from University Of Delhi, New Delhi | 2019

Higher Secondary from Saint John's Academy, New Delhi | 2016

Senior Secondary from Saint John's Academy, New Delhi | 2014

SKILLS (TECHNOLOGY/FUNCTIONAL)

Strong Communication | Situational Awareness | Teamwork | Emotional Intelligence | Service Coordination | Cultural Responsiveness | Community Assessment | Public Health Regulations | Research Outreach

LANGUAGES

English

Kannada

Hindi