Join Our Team!
Join Egyptian Health Department’s team in investing in Healthy People…Healthy Communities.
Our Agency:
Egyptian Health Department has been serving the citizens of Southern Illinois since 1952. We are COA accredited and a leading agency in Southern Illinois. We are team oriented and a fast growing agency.
Job Benefits:
Excellent benefit package including:
- Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund
- Group Health Insurance
- Vacation Days
- Sick Time
- Personal Day
- 14 Paid Holidays
- 35 hour workweek
- 4 day work week available for most positions
- Great work environment
- National Health Service Corp (NHSC) approved site
To Apply:
- Submit an online application at apply.egyptian.org
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Download or pickup a paper application and return to Tammy Karnes at:
- Address: 1412 US 45 North, Eldorado, IL 62930
- Fax: (618) 273-2808
- Email: tkarnes@egyptian.org
Please include resume and three letters of reference with application. Three letters of reference will be required prior to start date.
Next application deadline is:
Current Job Opportunities
Select a job for more information.
Community Health Worker - Integrated Care for Adults (InCA)
Department: Integrated Care for Adults (InCA)
Minimum Requirements:
- High School Diploma or equivalent with any combination of 3 years health/social services experience.
- Experience in engaging community members.
- Excellent computer skills, task oriented.
- Preference will be given to candidate with experience working with clients with psychiatric or substance use issues and complicated medical needs.
- Must have valid driver’s license, transportation and evidence of insurability.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Help clients in utilizing resources, including scheduling appointments, and assisting with completion of applications for programs for which they may be eligible.
- Coach clients in effective management of their chronic health conditions including mental health and substance use disorder.
- Assist clients in developing and understanding care plans.
- Document activities, care plans, and results in an effective manner while strictly adhering to the policies and procedures in place.
- Work collaboratively and effectively within a team.
- Make contact with disengaged attributed clients via telephone, mail, and face to face interactions in the home/community.
- Uploads appropriate information to EHR and data collection systems within specified time frames.
- Contact all clients after behavioral health hospitalizations to complete a Transition of Care form and uploads into HealthEC.
- Attends weekly staffing to update team on progress.
$32,000
Community Health Worker - Integrated Care for Kids (InCK)
Department: Integrated Care for Kids (InCK)
Minimum Requirements:
- Requires a high school diploma.
- Experience working with a diverse group of community agencies, organizations, or other resources.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Help clients in utilizing resources, including scheduling appointments, and assisting with completion of applications for programs for which they may be eligible.
- Assist clients in developing and understanding care plans.
- Document activities, care plans, and results in an effective manner while strictly adhering to the policies and procedures in place.
- Work collaboratively and effectively within a team.
- Facilitate communication and coordinate services between providers.
- Contact disengaged attributed clients meeting face to face in the home or community.
- Assist newly engaged/re-engaged clients in accessing services, when appropriate, and follow up on requested services.
- Completing follow-up face to face tasks as needed.
- Coach clients in effective management of their chronic health conditions including mental health and substance use disorder.
- Convey the purposes and services of a program to the user population and the impact that program or service would have.
$32,000
Engagement Specialist - Crisis Services
Department: Crisis
Minimum Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED
- Have lived experience that has navigated or been a consumer of a mental health system.
- Night Shift - Wednesday & Thursday 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m., Friday 8:00 p.m. to 8 a.m.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Provide engagement services with Mental Health Professional during face to face screening and assessments for individuals in need.
- Assist Mental Health Professional with completion of screenings for substance use, social determinants of health and any other assessment screenings to be completed during assessment process for individuals in need.
- Provide peer engagement services.
- Provide transition, linkage and after care resources to referrals.
- Provide crisis deflection services within 24 hours to individuals deflected from a higher level of care.
- Individuals must demonstrate great cultural and socioeconomic sensitivity to populations served.
- Increase engagement in care by assisting families/individuals in moving through a mental health system from hospitalization and/or deflection, through the agency intake process and transition from crisis to other levels of services.
- Assist individuals/families/caregivers in understanding, seeking and achieving the best possible outcomes for themselves or a family member (including complete recovery) by supporting consumer rights and empowering individuals/families/caregivers
$32,000
Home Health LPN
Department: Home Health
Minimum Requirements:
- Currently licensed in the State of Illinois as a Licensed Practical Nurse.
- Graduate of Accredited Practical Nursing Program.
- Physical requirements include: Lifting (up to 50 lbs); kneeling and bending.
- Good speaking, hearing and communication skills.
- Ability to deal with the public courteously and tactfully.
- Ability to follow oral and written instructions and to work as a team.
- Must have valid driver’s license and auto insurance.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Provides services in accordance with agency policies including maternal and child health programs.
- Performs home health visits and other related duties under the supervision of an R.N.
- Follow plan of care initiated by the R.N.
- Assists in coordination of appropriate referrals to other disciplines and to insurance companies.
- Prepares clinical progress notes within 24 hours of a home visit.
- Assess and provides client and family/care giver education and information pertinent to diagnosis/plan of care.
- Uses universal precautions while administering care to clients and is knowledgeable of policies and procedures and protocols regarding infection disease.
- Individuals must demonstrate great cultural and socioeconomic sensitivity to populations served
$39,000
Home Health RN
Department: Home Health
Minimum Requirements:
- Registered Nurse in the State of Illinois
- One or more years of community health nursing experience.
- Must have a valid driver's license, availability of transportation and must have auto insurance.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Is informed and involved with initial evaluation, start of frequency of visits and method of payment on all home health clients.
- Regularly re-evaluates the individual’s nursing needs.
- Is responsible for maintaining Home Health Program standards as outlined in the Rules and Regulations for Home Health agencies.
- May perform services in the homes of individuals within designated counties in accordance with the medical treatment plan for each individual patient made by the attending physician in conjunction with the EHD staff.
- Provides the following services: Evaluates the level of function, follows the plan of treatment, prepares clinical and progress notes, advises and consults with the family and other agency personnel and participates in in-service programs.
- Maintain an up-to-date clinical record for each patient receiving care.
- Provide progress notes to the patient’s physician about patients under care when the patient’s condition change or there are deviations from the plan of care or at least every sixty days.
- Individuals must demonstrate great cultural and socioeconomic sensitivity to populations served.
Salary: $51,000 | Bachelor's Degree: $52,500
Service Integration Coordinator
Department: Integrated Care for Adults
Minimum Requirements:
- Requires a bachelor’s degree in human services or related field (e.g, social work, psychology, education, business, nursing, or other healthcare-related degrees).
- Experience working with a diverse group of community agencies, organizations, or other resources.
- Must be able to work within multi system/software platforms for both referral and data collection responsibilities.
- Requires knowledge of various community resources, excellent interpersonal skills, verbal and written communication skills.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Serve as the single point of service coordination contact for InCA designated Medicaid recipients age 21 and older through the ihub.
- Conducts Comprehensive Needs Assessment and Screenings for all adult beneficiary referrals and walk-ins.
- Supports and tracks linkages/referrals to community-based resources.
- Report and advocate for change based on needs indicators.
- Works closely with the direct service team and other key staff to ensure comprehensive care is provided.
- Provides outreach and coordination contact for core partner agencies and InCA beneficiaries.
- Provide referral and linkage information for collaborators and InCA recipients including stratification to medically necessary levels of care using the IM CANS needs assessment as a guide.
- Will prompt, record and ensure care tasks within a Population Health Management system (i.e, follow-ups, wellness visits, screenings, and care plans, etc.) are completed by appropriate direct service staff to improve health outcomes of InCA recipients.
- Establish and further develop collaborative working relationships as an informational contact for agencies, service providers, and Medicaid beneficiary families in the counties served.
- Individuals must demonstrate great cultural and socioeconomic sensitivity to populations served
$41,000
Substance Use Disorder Counselor
Department: SA
Minimum Requirements:
- Must have a Bachelor's in a human service field.
- Must have either an Illinois Certification (ICB) or be able to obtain certification within two years of hire. Other licensures relevant to the position will be considered.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Assume case management/therapist responsibilities for a caseload of clients with alcohol and drug related problems.
- Provide follow-up services to clients discharged from treatment facilities.
- Conduct substance use disorder groups.
- Maintain complete documentation in client records as required by Illinois Administrative rules.
Bachelor's Degree: $41,000 Master's Degree: $48,000
Substance User Peer Recovery Specialist
Department: SA
Minimum Requirements:
- High School Diploma required.
- Have IODAPCA certification or have qualifications to obtain certification within two years of hiring date and at minimum one year of recovery are required.
- Must demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of the families we serve.
- Must have a valid driver's license and auto insurance.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Follow up services after a patient is discharged from residential treatment, collaboration with DCFS, housing, food, support and individual and family counseling responsibilities.
- May work in the court systems.
- Must make community outreach contacts to potential referral sources.
- Provide in service or addiction education to community groups.
- Participate in weekly program meetings and general staffing.
- Maintain documentation in client records as required by SUPR 2060 rules.
$32,000
Youth Mental Health Professional
Department: C & A Division
Minimum Requirements:
- Requires a Bachelor's Degree in human services related field
- Will provide specialized mental health treatment services to youth and their families ages 0-21.
- This candidate will have an understanding and acceptance of System of Care values and principles and have excellent oral and written communications skills.
- This position will be at the Eldorado office.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Will provide direct services in home, office or community based settings to families and children.
- Have knowledge of treatment strategies in child behavior management.
- The candidate will have the ability to work with families in a supportive manner throughout the diagnostic and treatment process as well as coordinate with providers in other service systems.
- The candidate must demonstrate sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of families served.
Bachelor's Degree: $41,000 Master's Degree: $48,000