PEER NAVIGATOR - TRUST **30hrs/week
Momentum for Health
- Palo Alto, CA
- $27.27 per hour
- Temporary
- Part-time
- 6% additional pay for overnight (NOC) shift from 11 pm to 7 am
- 4.5% additional pay for evening shift from 5:30 pm to 10:59 pm
- 4.5% additional pay for weekend shifts from 12:01 am on Saturday thru 11:59pm on Sunday
- Medical benefits –Kaiser--ranging from $0 Deductible Plan with $15 Copay to $,3200 Deductible Plan with Health Savings Account. Sutter Health plans are also available from $0 Deductible Plan to $2,500 Deductible Plan.
- Dental benefits –Guardian: 1 dental HMO and 2 PPOs
- Vision benefits – 2 options from Guardian VSP: a standard vision plan and an
- Establish links and working relationships with appropriate service providers, community agencies, and educational institutions.
- Encourage families to make use of all of their identified resources.
- Assist in a variety of support activities including client support groups and client recovery.
- Provide client assistance and mentoring on a one-to-one basis.*
- Establish a comfortable working relationship with all of the program participants (clients) and their families at the time of client enrollment.*
- Act as a liaison/advocate to ensure that the collaborative networks in the community are providing services in a respectful, user friendly and welcoming way.
- Communicate, represent and promote the client perspective within the mental health system.
- Assist the multidisciplinary team in identifying the strengths and needs of the community networks.
- Advocate for clients in a strength-based wellness and recovery plan.
- Develop effective working relationships with agencies and organizations to advocate for consumer and family/caregiver empowerment including self-help and wellness/recovery movements.
- Advocate that clients’ needs are met by appropriate caregivers.
- Attend case conferences.
- Promote wellness, recovery and support networks.*
- Provide outreach to clients in the community.*
- Confer with program staff and professional staff to assist in evaluating client needs or problems.
- Work a flexible schedule as required by responsibilities of the position.
- Attend and participate in staff, program, agency and community meetings, as required, requested or assigned.
- Provide backup support for crises.*
- Complete documentation and maintain clients’ files in accordance with program policies and funding source requirements.*
- Provide transportation in personal or agency vehicles including, but not limited to, the transportation of clients and/or program supplies for agency business.*
- Perform related work as assigned.
- Personal experience receiving mental health services and willingness to share that perspective with others within the context of providing peer support. (E)
- Proven problem-solving skills and abilities. (E)
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and demands. (E)
- Ability to engage and communicate effectively (E)
- Demonstrated ability to:
- Work independently and in a small team environment; (E)
- Engage and communicate effectively with others in both verbal and written English; (E)
- Monitor and support developmental growth and the recovery process; (E)
- Employ tact and diplomacy, exercise good judgment, and act calmly in emergency situations; (E)
- Work from a strengths-based, harm-reduction, social rehabilitation model; (E)
- Work effectively with persons differing in value systems, ethnicity, cultural backgrounds, language capabilities and disabilities. (E)
- Work collaboratively with individuals identified as those with serious mental illness who meet the following criteria: histories of hospitalization, institutionalization, substance abuse, low engagement in medication treatment, and difficulty in participating in structured activities and living independently. (E)
- Work with populations identified as high risk and/or considered under-represented in the County Mental Health system, with multiple barriers. (E)
- Knowledge of:
- Specific needs of the target population, as well as serious mental illness, substance abuse, other dual diagnoses, homelessness and the justice system; (D)
- Mental Health Services Act (MHSA); (D)
- Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP), or willing to learn; (D)
- Community resources, including those required to meet the non-mental health needs of the target population. (D)
- Exhibit exemplary customer service, compassion, and care in the execution of all duties and interactions. (E)
- Special Requirements: None
- Physical requirements needed to perform the essential functions of this job in day-to-day performance of the duties of this position, with or without accommodation:
- Hearing and talking on telephone and in person (over 2/3 of the workday); (E)
- Standing, walking, sitting, pinching and finger flexion are required constantly (over 2/3 of the workday); (E)
- Lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, bending, stooping, crouching, kneeling and twisting are required occasionally (under 1/3 of the workday); (E)
- Balancing, climbing and crawling are generally not required.