Status: Part-Time
Collaborates with: Program Manager - Robbie Martin, MD
Approx. hours/week: 10 hours/week
Days of week: One weekday, Saturday and/or Sunday
Salary: Compensated Position Depending on experience (DOE)
Main Function:
Health coaches/promotores are
responsible for helping patients manage their prediabetes. They will
collaborate directly with the program director to utilize a diabetes prevention
program (DPP) curriculum developed by Vincent et al, 2014. The DPP is a 6-month
program that promotes healthy eating and physical activity, with an initial
intensive 8-week curriculum. Each week a patient will participate in a 2–3-hour
group session with health coaches. The goal of the program is to prevent
prediabetes patients from converting to diabetes mellitus. Two health
coaches/promotores will facilitate a DPP session with a group of at least 15
patients in collaboration with another health coach/promotora. This requires at
least 2-hours of direct interaction with the patients, other time will be spent
meeting with the program manager, helping the data manager with data entry,
surveying, and program planning.
Summary:
Clínica Amistad is an official 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization based in Tucson that provides free primary healthcare services to
the underserved and uninsured. Being a health coach/promotora will help the
community fight against devastating diseases such as diabetes mellitus. Health
coaches/promotoras must qualify for the duties and functions listed below. Most
of the duties will be performed on-site, off-site, and/or virtually as to be
determined by the program director. Health coaches/promotoras will collaborate
with other health coaches/promotoras and the program director on a weekly basis
and will attend weekly team meetings to brainstorm and discuss patient
statuses. The success of the program is heavily dependent on collaborating
together successfully as a team.
Duties:
- Attend an introductory meeting
with the program director and data manager
- Participate in program training
- Download and print DPP weekly
curriculum
- Create weekly lesson plans
- Call and enroll patients into
DPP program
- Work with program director and
data manager to schedule patients for weekly DPP
- Become holistically familiar
with patient social status and capacity to perform DPP
- Prepare and facilitate weekly
DPP lesson plan for patients in group settings
- Collaborate with physicians,
physical trainers and public health professionals for DPP activities
- Collaborate with data manager
to input patient data into system and help disseminate quality assurance
surveys and indicators for evaluation
Skills:
● Language skills
● Communication skills
● Computer skills
● Leadership and team building skills
● Lesson planning
● Health education planning
● Critical thinking skills
● Data collection skills
Preferred Qualifications:
● Availability to continue working
with patients as a volunteer health coach after the initial 8-week intensive,
to see patients through a 6-month program
● Previous experience with health
education
● Aspiring health professional
Requirements:
● Must be bilingual in spanish
(intermediate level)
● Must have a laptop computer with
functional camera and audio
Please
send your resume (and cover letter if you please) to Hannah Doskicz: hannahdoskicz@email.arizona.edu. There will be an interview process
before selections are made for the position. You may also be required to fill
out the volunteer application for Clínica Amistad.
