community health worker (EN)
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Community health workers provide advice and information about various health subjects to the community. They can assist with pre- and post-natal care, give nutritional advice and help individuals stop smoking. Community health workers develop health and prevention programmes.
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Source aliases (EN)
- community health assistant
- community support worker
- community carer
- community healthcare worker
- community healthcare support worker
- community first responder
- community healthcare assistant
Skills and knowledge
Essential (EN) · 14
- provide social counselling
- build community relations
- apply quality standards in social services
- legal requirements in the social sector
- community education
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- assess social service users' situation
- relate empathetically
- apply knowledge of human behaviour
- review social service plan
- apply decision making within social work
- maintain records of work with service users
- communicate with social service users
- build helping relationship with social service users
Optional (EN) · 19
- assist individuals with disabilities in community activities
- contribute to continuity of health care
- promote health and safety policies in health services
- address public health issues
- empower social service users
- deliver group sessions on nutrition
- advise on pregnancy
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- promote social change
- support individuals on nutrition changes
- advocate for social service users
- assist families in crisis situations
- perform health assessment autonomously
- manage health promotion activities
- advise on mental health
- manage social crisis
- contribute to public health campaigns
- identify the health benefits of nutritional changes
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
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