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.
CCSO Intensive Care Coordinator
Department: CCSO
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Health and Human related field OR
- High School Diploma with 5 years verifiable clinical experience in mental health or human services OR
- Family partnership professional with current certification from the Illinois Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Professional Certification Association.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Provide intensive care coordination to youth in Tier 2, maintaining an average caseload of 16 youth not to exceed 18 youth on a caseload at one time.
- Coordinate and facilitate Wraparound team meetings and assign responsibilities/activities to members on each wraparound team.
- Maintain comprehensive Plan of Care and update after each team meeting or as needed.
- Assist with the identification, recruitment, and engagement of existing natural supports for development of a natural support team.
- Assist with the development of crisis safety plans.
- Act as a liaison and consult with community providers and families to maintain coordination in the treatment team process.
- Educate families, providers and the community about the wraparound process.
- Participate in all HFS Intensive Care Coordination and High-Fidelity Wraparound trainings and quarterly boosters, as well as in complete yearly certification to administer IM-CANS lifespan assessment and other screenings with clients as required.
Experience Only: $32,000 Bachelor's Degree: $41,000
Community Health Worker - Integrated Care for Adults (InCA)
Department: 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
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- Sunday & Monday 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 a.m.,Tuesday 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 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.
- 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, empowering individuals/families/caregivers to make i
- Individuals must demonstrate great cultural and socioeconomic sensitivity to populations served.
$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
Public Health Nurse RN
Department: WIC
Minimum Requirements:
- Valid Illinois RN License.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Reports directly to the Maternal Child Health Coordinator.
- Perform WIC assessment, nutrition education, counseling, and other requirements as outlined in the state and local WIC policy and procedure manual.
- Administer WIC benefits and tailor client food packages as appropriate.
- Perform nursing assessment and other requirements as outlined in the state and local Better-Birth-Outcomes- Comprehensive (BBO-C) Policy and Procedure Manual.
- Will conduct client appointments in office, by telephone, and/or offsite as needed.
- Demonstrate a positive and supporting atmosphere for breastfeeding, and will obtain breastfeeding lactation certification when available.
- Administer and prepare childhood and adult immunizations per CDC and IDPH guidelines.
- Schedule and perform DNA testing as requested by commercial laboratories.
- Attend and/or participate in program outreach activities and events.
- Assist and document client referrals as needed to appropriate providers and/or resources.
$48,000
School Based Youth Mental Health Professional - Gallatin Co. School
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor or Mater's degree in human service field.
- Clinical license in the State of IL and/or certifications in evidence-based practices.
Full Time
Hours:
35 Hours per Week
Job Duties:
- Promote healthy social and emotional development in all children and youth served.
- Provides counseling/therapy services to individuals, groups, families, and classrooms.
- Provide comprehensive assessment, diagnostic crisis screening, referral services, developmental screenings, and direct therapeutic service to clientele.
- Provide consultation and support to caregivers and other providers as well as coordinating services to maximize resources and minimize duplication of services for clientele.
- Prepares client records, reports, data and required statistics in a timely fashion.
Bachelor's Degree: $41,000 Master's Degree: $48,000