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Benioff Community Health Outreach Worker Model: Considerations for Vaccine Ambassador Programs (2021). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This brief describes the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative's cross-discipline program model that peered medical teams with Community Health and Outreach workers to inform vaccine ambassador programs. More Details...

Recruiting, Training, and Retaining LGBTQIA-Proficient Clinical Providers (2021). Resource Type: Archived Webinar. Description: The Fenway Institute highlights resources and best practices that strengthen a CHC’s ability to recruit, train, and retain LGBTQI+-Proficient Clinical Providers and workforce staff. More Details...

NNOHA Operations Manual: Workforce Chapter V2 (2020). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This chapter provides helpful tools and resources for tackling the issues related to workforce in Health Center oral health programs. Topics include recruitment and retention of dental team members, staffing ratios, and strategies to decrease burnout. More Details...

Chief Workforce Officer Toolkit (2020). Resource Type: Toolkit. Description: The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) and the STAR² Center in partnership with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) are excited to announce the release of the Chief Workforce Officer (CWO) Toolkit. Our organizations have collaboratively developed this timely and relevant new resource to assist community health centers (CHCs) and primary care associations (PCAs) in recruiting and retaining workforce leaders who are strategic and effective at meeting the complex needs of the CHC workforce. In the toolkit, users will find CWO core competencies, a CWO job description template, and much more.. More Details...

Growing Our Own: Cultivating the Next Generation of Primary Care Physicians in Community Health Centers (2017). Resource Type: Publication. Description: It is critical to advance policies and programs that help community health centers (CHCs) become Educational Health Centers (EHCs)2 and “grow their own” primary care training opportunities. This paper explores several pathways for promoting CHCs as teaching environments - enhanced partnerships between Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) and CHCs (with either the AMC or the CHC as the sponsoring institution3), and CHCs participating in HRSA Teaching Health Center (THC) funding opportunities (with sponsorship either by the CHC alone or by a consortium body) - and posits a spectrum of options and costs associated with each of these pathways to train medical residents. More Details...

Samples of Job Functions for a Clinical Informatics Specialist: Skills and Job Descriptions for Health IT Staff (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This job description tool provides a position summary for a Clinical Informatics Specialist. HR staff can share it with supervisors to identify the types of functions a position will be responsible for, and the skills and experience necessary to accomplish the job. The various functions can be used as a menu to pick and choose from different categories to build a job description. This job description tool provides a position summary, sample job functions, sample skill requirements, and sample education and experience requirements. This tool is intended to be used like a menu.  HR staff can share it with supervisors to identify the types of functions a position will be responsible for, and the skills and experience necessary to accomplish the job. The various functions can be used as a menu to pick and choose from different categories to build a job description. This role provides analytic support to follow clinical outcomes for proper disease management and population health management.  Helps develop, implement, and support clinical information systems.  Works across the organization to provide continuous clinical information system support, troubleshooting, and identify improvements. More Details...

Samples of Job Functions for a Clinical Informatics Coordinator: Skills and Job Descriptions for Health IT Staff (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This job description tool provides a position summary for a Clinical Informatics Coordinator. sample job functions, sample skill requirements, and sample education and experience requirements. This role coordinates efforts to follow clinical outcomes for proper disease management and population health management. This job description tool provides a position summary, sample job functions, sample skill requirements, and sample education and experience requirements. This tool is intended to be used like a menu.  HR staff can share it with supervisors to identify the types of functions a position will be responsible for and the skills and experience necessary to accomplish the job. The various functions can be used as a menu to pick and choose from different categories to build a job description. This role coordinates efforts to follow clinical outcomes for proper disease management and population health management. Serves as a liaison between front-line care teams and the Information Technology team to continuously improve the electronic health record and related clinical systems.  Provides data management support and statistical analyses for Health IT projects. Works across the organization to provide continuous clinical information system support, troubleshooting, and identify improvements. More Details...

Job Function Decision Tree: A Matrix of Skills and Job Descriptions for Health IT Staff (2016). Resource Type: Template. Description: The following document is intended to assist health center staff create new job descriptions and/or modify existing job descriptions to more clearly incorporate Health IT and quality-related responsibilities. The matrix provides responsibilities across three categories of roles: Medical Leadership, Quality, and Health IT. It differentiates these responsibilities based on typical job functions (e.g., Quality Improvement, Compliance, Meaningful Use). More Details...

HITEQ Job Function Decision Tree: A Matrix of Skills and Job Descriptions for Health IT Staff (2016). Resource Type: Publication. Description: The following document is intended to assist health center staff create new job descriptions and/or modify existing job descriptions to more clearly incorporate Health IT and quality-related responsibilities.  The matrix provides responsibilities across three categories of roles:  Medical Leadership, Quality, and Health IT.  It differentiates these responsibilities based on typical job functions (e.g., Quality Improvement, Compliance, Meaningful Use).    The following document is intended to assist health center staff create new job descriptions and/or modify existing job descriptions to more clearly incorporate Health IT and quality-related responsibilities.  The matrix provides responsibilities across three categories of roles:  Medical Leadership, Quality, and Health IT.  It differentiates these responsibilities based on typical job functions (e.g., Quality Improvement, Compliance, Meaningful Use).    This tool is helpful in two distinct ways. First, the matrix can provide language to modify existing job descriptions to ensure that for each function, responsibilities are articulated across all appropriate health center roles. Second, the matrix can help an organization that has determined the need for additional Quality and Health IT staff, such as a Data Analyst or Quality Coordinator.  The tool can assist in determining which functions will be incorporated into the new role, and then developing the job description from the chosen functions. More Details...

The Evolving Role of Nurse Practitioners in Health Centers and Considerations for Provider Satisfaction (44348). Resource Type: Publication. Description: This publication discusses the evolving role of nurse practitioners and reccomendations to improve job satisfaction and prevent burnout. More Details...