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The Navigator supports participants in identifying their own goals, strengths, and readiness for change while assisting them in accessing medical, behavioral health, SUD treatment, recovery, housing, benefits, and other community resources.\nThis position is funded through a SAMHSA grant and is responsible for supporting program goals, required documentation, performance measures, and outcomes consistent with the approved scope of work.\nESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nPerforms a combination, but not necessarily all, of the following duties:\n1.Street-Based Outreach and Engagement\nConduct outreach in streets, encampments, shelters, motels, interim housing, and other community settings.\nBuild trusting relationships using a person-centered, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, recovery-oriented, and low-barrier approach.\nProvide consistent follow-up and engagement with participants over time.\nWork collaboratively with medical providers, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, case managers, HIV testing staff, and other Street Medicine team members.\n2. Peer Recovery Support\nProvide peer recovery support consistent with California Medi-Cal Peer Support Services requirements, organizational policies, and participant-identified goals.\nUse relevant lived experience and peer-support skills to support individuals in their recovery journey.\nAssist participants in identifying strengths, goals, priorities, recovery supports, and self-management strategies.\nConduct or support substance use screening using approved tools and protocols within the Navigator's scope of practice, including SBIRT-related activities.\nUse motivational interviewing and MET-informed strategies to explore substance use, ambivalence, readiness for change, and personally meaningful goals.\nProvide brief, person-centered interventions that do not require immediate abstinence or treatment engagement.\nEducate participants regarding treatment and recovery options and facilitate warm handoffs based on participant needs and preferences.\nEducate participants regarding available MAT options and assist with patient tracking, follow-up, appointment coordination, and engagement in services\nFollow up on referrals and assist with barriers to accessing care.\n3. Harm Reduction\nIntegrate harm reduction education into outreach, care navigation, and recovery support.\nProvide nonjudgmental education regarding overdose prevention, safer substance use, infectious disease prevention, and other health and safety concerns.\nProvide or distribute approved harm reduction supplies in accordance with organizational policies and protocols.\nConnect participants with appropriate harm reduction and health services. \n4. Advocacy and Participant Empowerment\nAdvocate for participant-identified needs using tools such as the PREPARE form to help identify and address social determinants of health. \nSupport participants in communicating their needs, preferences, and goals and navigating barriers to care through internal and external referrals to support services. \nProvide supportive intervention, referrals, resources, and follow-up for participants experiencing suicidal thoughts or emotional crisis, within the Navigator’s scope of practice. \n5. Multidisciplinary Street Medicine Collaboration\nParticipate in multidisciplinary team meetings and care coordination.\nCollaborate with physicians, nurses, behavioral health clinicians, social workers, case managers, substance use treatment professionals, and community partners.\nSupport participant engagement, follow-up, and linkage to HIV, Hep C and other STI care and prevention services. Services may include linkage to PREP and PEP available services. \nAssist with patient registration, intake, required forms, and appropriate documentation in eCW and/or approved systems when needed.\nAssist with daily van preparation, organization of supplies, preparation of participant resource/goodie bags, and other field-operational activities.\n8. Documentation, Data Collection, and Grant Compliance\nMaintain timely, accurate, and complete documentation of participant contacts, outreach, screening, interventions, referrals, care navigation, and outcomes.\nDocument services in the electronic health record and/or approved case-management system.\nComplete required SAMHSA grant data collection and reporting activities.\nTrack referrals, engagement, linkage to care, and participant outcomes.\nResponsibility to Team - actively support assigned team/department by participating in and supporting all team/departmental initiatives, proactively communicating with supervision, meeting assigned goals and objectives, and committing to embracing process improvement initiatives.\nResponsibility to Organization - actively support SJCH by consistently meeting St. John’s Mission, Vision, and Values; modeling positive interactions with patients, staff, and community; keeping informed of internal (e.g., policies and procedures) and external (e.g., legal or political matters) which may affect business.\nAdditional Duties - as assigned.\nFor Grant Funded Positions - All duties relative to grant number 3171 are contained within this job description.\nSt. John’s Community Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.\nQUALIFICATIONS\nTo perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.\nEducation & Experience\nMedi-Cal Peer Support Services Specialist certification is required OR completion of a state-approved peer support training program and successful certification required.\nMust maintain certification and meet applicable California requirements for delivery of Medi-Cal Peer Support Services.\nHigh School diploma or equivalent GED. Associate degree in a related field preferred. \nMust self-identify as a current or past consumer of mental health services or substance use. Having a relative that identifies with the mentioned above also qualifies. \nExperience working with people experiencing homelessness (PEH) is strongly preferred.\nExperience providing street outreach, harm reduction, peer recovery support, care navigation, or services in low-barrier settings is preferred but not required. \nInterpersonal Skills\nBilingual Spanish/English proficiency is preferred. \nCultural humility and culturally responsive communication.\nCrisis recognition, de-escalation, and appropriate escalation.\nProfessional boundaries and peer-support ethics.\nAdditional Requirements:\nReliable transportation and flexibility to travel between Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and Riverside Counties as needed.\nMust maintain certification and complete continuing education requirements.\nValid California Driver’s License preferred.\nLanguage Skills\nAbility to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.\nReasoning Ability\nAbility to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Synthesize complex or diverse information. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to interpret situations, characteristics, behavior, etc. and respond appropriately.\nComputer Skills\nTo perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of MS Outlook, MS Excel, MS Word, and Internet software. 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