Available Positions
Community Health Worker
The Community Health Worker is a frontline public health worker who performs a variety of duties to engage, support, advocate, and connect community members to needed and necessary resources to support good health and wellness. The Community Health Worker serves as a liaison or link between health and social services and the community to facilitate access and improve health outcomes by increasing health knowledge and self-sufficiency through a range of activities such as outreach, community education, informal counseling, social support, and advocacy.
Public Health Office Assistant
Provide continuity in achieving patient throughput. Is the first contact with patients who arrive for public health services at the health department and in many cases is first time contact via the telephone. Provide registration services, prepare the patient for treatment, generate the patient record, ensure necessary documentation is completed, including completion of patient satisfaction survey, maintain accountability of revenues collected and follow up with patients as necessary. Provide valuable accounting, record keeping, data entry and inventory functions.
LPN
Under the guidance and supervision of a registered nurse, provide nursing care in an acute care, long-term care, home health, and ambulatory care setting. Responsibilities include subsequent assessments, collection of data, administration of medications and treatments, and documentation of care provided. Perform duties within the scope of the Missouri State Board of Nurse Practice Act.
This clinic primarily offers routine immunizations for infants and children but sees clients throughout the lifespan. Other services include TB skin testing, STI testing, vaccine exemptions, phlebotomy, specimen collection, and COVID testing.
Interns
Interested in interning at JCPH? Internship positions are available for undergraduate and graduate students each semester. A public health internship can provide practical experience, and an opportunity to contribute to public health initiatives. Areas of emphasis include Community Initiatives, Data Analytics, Public Health Communications, Health Equity, and more.
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