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How Can You Help?

As a non-profit organization, volunteers help our clinic provide much needed help to the community. There is no requirement to be interested in medicine as a career, although we hope that you gain a greater awareness of the barriers to health care that our patients face. We thank you for your interest in volunteering, and want to make sure that you have a fulfilling and valuable experience. Please let us know how we can make your volunteer experience relate more to your goals regarding volunteer work.

Guidelines for Volunteering:

  • Volunteers must meet minimum time commitments for specific positions.
  • Volunteers must be at least 18 years old. Unless where noted otherwise. (16 is permittable for the Reach Out and Read position.)

Steps to Becoming a Volunteer:

  • Contact Volunteer Coordinator at (510) 981-4140 to talk about specific volunteer opportunities
  • Fill out a Volunteer Application
  • If working in high-risk areas, provide proof of Hepatitis B immunization.
  • If position requires specific skills, proof of this skills might also be required
  • Interview with the Volunteer Coordinator and with Site Supervisor

Expectations of Volunteers:

  • Let supervisor know your schedule, and call when you cannot make it
  • Be punctual
  • Wear nametag at all times
  • Conduct yourself in a professional manner, including dress and speech

Volunteer Opportunities:

Please note that some positions might be filled, due to limits on how many people are needed at the time. Some positions require time commitments, specific skills such as nursing, or language abilities. Please contact Volunteer Coordinator to discuss positions that would best fit your desires. (510) 981-4140 or volunteer@lifelongmedical.org.

Position: Pre-natal Intern

Description: Assist pre-natal workers with Centering Pregnancy groups for expectant mothers. This includes contacting patients of LifeLong to determine interest in participating, scheduling group meetings, preparing materials, set-up and clean-up for the meetings, and helping to facilitate the meetings. Other duties can include collecting donations for the expectant mothers and assisting with other childcare classes.

Location: West Berkeley Family Practice

Hours needed: Facilitating the classes usually happens on Tuesdays, with three different groups. Other duties can be done other days of the week. Between 10-20 hours a week are needed. Commitment of a year.

Specific skills or training needed: Working knowledge of Spanish preferred but not required. Communication and organization skills needed. Confidentiality and Dependability a must.

Position: Administrative Aide

Description: Clerical work for projects in Human Resources, Finance, or Development. Can include computer work, assisting with special events and fundraisers, filing, copying and mailing.

Location: Administration Offices, located at 2344 Sixth St., in Berkeley

Hours needed: Flexible

Specific skills or training needed: Ability to work independently. Organizational skills and confidentiality needed.

Position: Reach Out and Read

Description: Read to children in the waiting room. Books are provided, but if you wish to bring your own, that is possible. Duties can also include looking for donations of books that would increase the variety of the selection in the waiting room.

Location: West Berkeley Family Practice

Hours needed: 1-2 hours a week

Specific skills or training needed: Ability to work independently and with children.

Position: Medical Records Assistant

Description: Assist with duties such as setting up patient charts, filing lab reports, and photocopying charts.

Location: All clinics

Hours needed: Minimum of two hours a week

Specific skills or training needed: Ability to work independently. Confidentiality and dependability required.

Position: Certified Medical Assistant-day clinics

Description: Process patients for visits, take and record vitals, take preliminary health information, and provide support to medical staff as needed.

Location: Berkeley Primary Care, West Berkeley Family Practice, Over60 Health Center

Hours needed: At least four hours a week, either 8:30-12:30, or 1:00-5:00, Commitment of 6 months needed

Specific skills or training needed: Further training will be given by Head Medical Assistant. Will need proof of Hepatitis B immunization and TB test. Confidentiality and dependability needed. Working knowledge if Spanish preferred but not required.

Position: Medical Assistant-Wednesday Night Clinic BPC

Description: The Wednesday Night Clinic-BPC is a free drop-in clinic that operates out of Berkeley Primary Care. Duties include taking patient vitals, patient history, assisting medical providers in patient rooms, and running lab tests. Duties also include, or can be primarily, running the front desk, making patient charts, insurance eligibility, and appointment scheduling. For more information about Wednesday Night Clinics at BPC, go to the web page.

Location: Berkeley Primary Care

Hours needed: Shifts are 4 hours long. Wednesdays are from 5:30-9:30pm. Sign-up for shifts as you are available.

Specific skills or training needed: No experience needed. Training occurs either in large groups or individually. Working knowledge of Spanish preferred but not required.

Position: Medical Provider

Description: Looking for doctors, PAs, and nurses to provide medical care for volunteer clinic.

Location: Berkeley Primary Care

Hours needed: Shifts are 4 hours long. Thursdays are from 5:30-9:30pm, and Saturdays are 8:30-12:30am.

Specific skills or training needed: License as a medical provider.

Position: Hypertension Screenings Volunteer

Description: Conduct hypertension screenings for seniors. Take and record blood pressure and provide health education to patients as needed.

Location: Sites are in Oakland and Berkeley

Hours needed: Hypertension Clinics happen 2x a month, for 2-3 hours each time. 6 month commitment needed.

Specific skills or training needed: RN or similar qualification required. Confidentiality and dependability needed.

Position: Dental Clinic Volunteer (CURRENTLY FULL)

Description: Assist Dentists and Dental Assistants with their duties such as sterilizing equipment, assembling instrument trays, processing patients, preparing rooms for exams, and some chair side assistance.

Location: LifeLong Dental

Hours needed: Vary.

Specific skills or training needed: No skills needed. Will train. Confidentiality and dependability a must.

AmeriCorps Program

The Community Health Corps AmeriCorps members work to increase insurance enrollment and awareness and to educate people about health programs in the area. We are based out of LifeLong Medical Care, a community-based clinic consortium, with six clinics in Berkeley and Oakland. LifeLong provides continuous and comprehensive health care in the areas of family practice, primary care and pre-natal, to name a few.

Community Health Corp workers play many roles in our organization. Some members work to help enroll eligible clients into insurance programs, as well as advocating and troubleshooting for problems with health insurance and access to care. AmeriCorps members also refer patients to other needed social services and conduct individual and group health education seminars. In the Berkeley schools the AmeriCorps make sure every child has health insurance and design and teach health education curricula. Other agencies that the AmeriCorps work with are the City of Berkeley Office of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley, and local, community and faith-based organizations.

WE ARE CURRENTLY ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS TO THIS PROGRAM. We have begun accepting applications for the 2007-2008 session. Deadline for applications is June 30, 2007.

For more information on applying to the AmeriCorps Community Health Corps program, please go to www.americorps.gov and search for position number 00ADNDC0100013 or contact Linda Collins, the AmeriCorps Program Manager at lcollins@lifelongmedica.org

 

 


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