Due to the pandemic, there is a critical need for remote, home-based contact tracers. At least 100,000 contract tracers will be required over the next 6 months. Full time and part time. Must be able to work an assigned schedule. Some evening and weekend work might be required.

Contract Tracers earn around $57,000 per year and benefits are included for full time employees. All necessary equipment will be provided and phone/Internet expenses will be covered by the employer.

Though contact tracers have been around for decades, there has been an increased demand for them as a result of Covid-19.

Contact tracers are used to reach out to individuals who have tested positive for the virus. Because people with Covid-19 often don’t show immediate symptoms and may not know they have the illness until they receive an official diagnosis, contact tracers will help the infected person remember and identify the people they have been in close contact with during their diagnosis period and the two days leading up to it. This will be done by asking questions about where the person has been and who they’ve been in close proximity to at work, at home or maybe in a car.  Once those exposed individuals are identified, contact tracers will then make a list of those people and contact them.

When contacting someone who has been exposed to the virus it’s important for contact tracers to not identify the infected person for privacy protection reasons.  Instead, contact tracers will say, “We just have to let you know that you have been exposed and here are the things that you need to do next.”

Those next steps include contact tracers advising individuals to stay home and maintain social distance from other people for 14 days after they’ve been exposed to the virus. During this time, the exposed individual will be encouraged to check their temperature twice a day and monitor whether or not they develop any Covid-19 symptoms like coughing or shortness of breath. Contract tracers will then check in with these individuals periodically to ensure that these self-monitoring steps are being taken. In the event that symptoms do arise, contract tracers will advise the individual to notify a health-care professional for medical care.

• Conduct telephone calls with persons diagnosed with COVID-19 to complete case interviews, elicit and trace contacts exposed to COVID-19
• Provide follow-up instructions to cases and to contacts related to isolation/quarantine, symptom monitoring and assess the need for medical care and supportive services
• Communicate with cases and contacts in a professional and empathetic manner
• Collect and record information from the case interview/contact gathering into the data system
• Follow approved scripts and protocols, provide people with approved information about isolation and quarantine procedures, and if appropriate, refer them to testing
• Maintain daily communication with their Supervising Contact Tracer, as assigned
• Provide information on where to find other social, health resources using approved script/resource list
• Receive telephone consent for potential follow-up calls
• Protect and maintain individuals’ privacy and confidentiality.

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