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About Waymark
Waymark is a mission-driven team of healthcare providers, technologists, and builders working to transform care for people with Medicaid benefits. We partner with communities to deliver technology-enabled, human-centered support that helps patients stay healthy and thrive. We're designing tools and systems that bring care directly to those who need it most-removing barriers and reimagining what's possible in Medicaid healthcare delivery.
Our Values
At Waymark, our values are the foundation of how we work, grow, and support one another:

• Bold Builders: We tackle the toughest challenges in care delivery by harnessing the power of community and technology.
• Humble Learners: We seek feedback, embrace diverse perspectives, and welcome challenges to our assumptions.
• Experiment to Improve: We use data to inform decisions and continuously assess our performance.
• Focused Urgency: Our mission drives us to act swiftly and relentlessly in pursuit of meaningful results.

If this resonates with you, we invite you to bring your creativity, energy, and curiosity to Waymark.
About this role
As the San Bernardino/Orange County area Community Health Worker (CHW) Lead for Waymark, you will lead our community health workers in the region. Reporting to the Market Operations Lead, you will supervise and manage a team of CHWs - including helping them implement their day-to-day priorities, providing coaching and support around patient care, and managing performance to team goals. As a leader in a growing organization, you will also develop and steward community partnerships and resource information to support patient care, and impact how we design, structure, and implement the CHW experience for our employees, spanning recruitment, hiring and training, deployment, mentorship, resourcing, providing pathways to advancement, and advocating for CHWs across our organization and externally.
Key Responsibilities

• Provide direct supervision of the day-to-day activities of CHWs in Orange and San Bernardino counties, including helping them establish and implement their schedules and priorities.
• Lead weekly team huddles with a multidisciplinary team - including CHWs, licensed clinical social workers, pharmacists, and care coordinators - to coordinate patient care.
• Provide CHWs with coaching, mentorship, and support to ensure satisfaction and sustainability within the CHW role, and to ensure competency validation, including by managing one-on-one and group meetings with the CHW team and occasionally shadowing fieldwork.
• Manage staffing schedules to ensure patient coverage and continuity of care within the local CHW team.
• Review data dashboards to manage CHW performance relative to goals and identify strengths and opportunities.
• Work with the Operations and Learning & Development teams to hire, train, deploy, and provide ongoing support to local CHWs.
• Navigate technology systems to supervise CHW documentation and ensure quality care
• Represent Waymark in the community and build and nurture community partnerships.
• Maintain knowledge of programs and resources available to community members that promote their health and wellbeing, and support CHWs in understanding and navigating those resources on behalf of those we serve.
• Contribute as a member of the local leadership team by representing Waymark's values and contributing to a positive and collaborative culture across the local team.
• Maintain small outreach and patient caseload responsibilities as a working CHW on an as needed basis to support team coverage, including potentially speaking with patients over the phone or meeting patients in the community, home, or in healthcare facilities.
• This is a hybrid role involving work from a home office as well as travel required within the market (up to 60%)
• Current Driver's license and access to an insured vehicle.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience supervising teams of community health workers or related local health workforces.
• Experience delivering health services as a CHW or related role and openness to supporting a small caseload
• A leader with cultural and personal humility. Has a strong understanding of Medicaid and the barriers to healthcare access and quality among diverse, underserved populations, and is comfortable describing our work externally and building community relationships.
• Sound judgment and the ability to quickly analyze situations and manage team members with empathy and care
• Experience and comfort using technology for virtual communication, scheduling, and documentation.
• Strong understanding of, and ability to teach and implement, principles of trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, and harm reduction, including among populations facing serious mental illness and substance use challenges.
• Ability to travel to local neighborhoods across Orange and San Bernardino counties to help build and nurture community partnerships, establish new CHW teams, and support existing teams.
• A person who thrives on building and supervising a team of care providers, building professionalism and positive culture among those working to support the hardest-to-reach patients.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of common CHW recruitment, hiring, training and supervision strategies, and ability to compare and contrast such strategies in real-world situations.
• Community Health Worker certification.
• Long time resident of the Southern CA area and knowledgeable of community resources.

Hiring Salary Range
$71,000 - $98,000
In addition to salary, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. Here's what you can expect:
Stock Options: Opportunity to invest in the company's growth.
Work-from-Home Stipend: A dedicated stipend for your first year to help set up your home office.
Medical, Vision, and Dental Coverage: Comprehensive plans to keep you and your family healthy.
Life Insurance: Basic life insurance to give you peace of mind.
Paid Time Off: 20 vacation days, accrued over the year, plus 11 paid holidays.
Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents after six months of employment, and 8 weeks of bonding leave for non-birthing parents.
Retirement Savings: Access to a 401(k) plan with a company contribution, subject to a vesting schedule.
Commuter Benefits: Convenient options to support your commute needs.
Professional Development Stipend: A dedicated stipend supports professional development and growth.
As a healthcare company, Waymark is committed to protecting our employees, partners, and the patients we serve. Employees are required to comply with Waymark's vaccination policy, which includes annual COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations, as well as Hepatitis B, MMR, Varicella, and Tdap/Td vaccinations (or documented immunity where applicable). New hires will be asked to attest to their vaccination status after accepting an offer of employment. Waymark will consider reasonable accommodations for individuals who cannot meet these requirements due to a disability, sincerely held religious belief, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Offer of employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. Employment history and advance degree verification (when applicable) are included as part of the standard background check process.
Don't check off every box in the requirements listed above? Please apply anyway! Studies have shown that some of us may be less likely to apply to jobs unless we meet every single qualification. Waymark is dedicated to building a supportive, equal opportunity, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging - so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every preferred qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still consider submitting an application. You may be just the right candidate for this role or another one of our openings!