Peer Navigator

About the role

This position within a program assists Stanislaus County Behavioral Health Clients with serious mental illness and their families to gain access to primary preventative and specialty health care services.

Responsibilities

• Engages, educates, and offers support to individuals, their family members, and caregivers in order to successfully connect them to culturally relevant health services including prevention, diagnosis, timely treatment, recovery-management, and follow-up.
• Assists with medication management, housing, counseling, support, and advocacy as needed.
• Develops individual service plans for each client with their input whenever possible.
• Engages members in the field, including meeting regularly with clients at Turning Point sites, at jobsites, homes, board and care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, psychiatric facilities, and other appropriate sites.
• Arranges or transports clients to and from medical appointments.
• Provides direct crisis intervention on behalf of clients including, but not limited to, telephone, walk-in services, and outreach services to program clients.
• Consults with or meets regularly with the client’s family, care provider or other significant persons with client’s consent.
• Coaches clients in developing age-appropriate social skills, money management, personal hygiene, and job readiness.
• Affords assistance in establishing client’s eligibility for Medi-Cal or other benefits and advocates for continuation of benefits when appropriate.
• Interacts productively within the team in order to provide holistic mental health and case management services to an identified group of clients.
• Provides “on-the-spot” counseling that is both helpful to the clients and consistent with the philosophy of the program.
• Maintains the safety, health, and wellbeing of clients.

Qualifications

• A typical way of obtaining the knowledge, skills and abilities outlined above is through graduation from High School or completion of GED program; two (2) years of varied lived experience or as a provider of mental health services.
• California driver’s license & current vehicle insurance/registration.
• Reliable means of transportation capable of passing vehicle safety inspection if more than five years old excluding all modes of two-wheeled transport inclusive of bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles.

Benefits

Not specified

Schedule

Monday to Thursday, 7:00 am to 5:30pm

Pay

$21-$22hr