Hospital Responder Coordinator - BRAG

About the role

The Hospital Responder Coordinator plays a crucial role in reducing the possibility of retaliatory violence and the return of victims to hospitals. This position involves managing the Hospital Response department, supervising staff, and providing mediation and assistance to victims and their families.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Hospital Response department and work closely with B.R.A.G. West, North, and Northwest staff and St. Barnabas and Jacobi Hospitals to reduce retaliatory violence and the return of victims to hospitals.
• Ensure that data is entered by staff daily and analyze, review, and draw inferences for strategic planning.
• Attend and represent at key stakeholder meetings and provide presentations to promote hospital response work at St. Barnabas and Jacobi Hospitals.
• Provide consistent supervision to staff, assign required training, and confirm frequent contacts with victims from the 46th, 47th, and 52nd precincts.
• Oversee and/or maintain active risk loads of victims of violence for all B.R.A.G. programs due to guns/assaults while in the hospital.
• Verify staff home visits upon the release of the victim from the hospital if the victim lives within B.R.A.G.’s 46th, 47th and 52nd precincts' Catchment Areas.
• Provide feedback to Program Managers for B.R.A.G. on the hospital protocol and recommend improvements to enhance the program's quality and success.
• Participate in responses to shootings that take place in the 46th, 47th, and 52nd precincts' catchment areas.
• Plan, attend, and help facilitate events within St. Barnabas and Jacobi Hospitals.
• Enter all such information in a timely manner into the prescribed database on handheld devices or office computers.
• Work a highly flexible schedule that includes late evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of the Bronx 46th, 47th, and 52nd Precinct neighborhoods.
• Residence within the area and leadership skills are strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with hospital settings is a plus.
• Ability to work with individuals and families in the midst of extreme crisis.
• Experience and direct knowledge of at-risk youth and gang involvement.
• The ideal candidate is someone very close to the streets, able to communicate effectively with gang members and other high-risk individuals, and capable of gaining the trust of the highest-risk individuals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Computer literate and able to enter notes and activities into databases via handheld devices and office computers.
• Ability to work a highly flexible schedule that includes late evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Ability to pass a drug screening.
• Criminal justice history is preferred but may not be under current supervision.
• Committed to working toward positive community change.
• Commitment to work from a strength-based, trauma-informed youth and family development perspective.
• A valid, clean NYS driver’s license is strongly preferred.
• Ability to use public transportation.
• Ability to travel intensively, stand and walk for long periods, lift 25 lbs., bend, lift, and be otherwise physically active.
• Bilingual Spanish-English & Patois a plus.