PEER NAVIGATOR - SART **20hrs/week**

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for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We have schedule info: Work Schedule is Friday 9:00am-1:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-7:30pm, Sunday 10:00am-7:30pm (Flexible). So we can include Schedule section. Pay info: Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $29.14/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $32.17/hr. Shift Differential details. So we can include Pay section. Benefits: Not mentioned explicitly. There's no benefits info. So we should not include Benefits. Qualifications: Could include education, experience, etc. The posting includes "High School diploma, GED, or equivalent education. (E)" etc. Also "Personal experience in a mental health setting preferred. (D)" etc. Also "Experience as a mental health consumer or family member required for the position." So we can include Requirements or Qualifications. The instruction: Use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide which sections to include. We have responsibilities (principal duties). We have knowledge, skill and abilities required (which could be Skills or Requirements). We have schedule and pay. Also we have a brief description about role: "The Peer Navigator provides support, wellness and recovery services to clients..." That could be About the role. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (or Qualifications?), Skills, Pay, Schedule. We need to avoid duplication. The knowledge, skill and abilities required list includes many items; we could put them under Skills or Requirements. The instruction says we can have both Requirements and Qualifications sections, but we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine knowledge, skill and abilities into a Skills section (or Requirements). Let's decide: Use "Responsibilities" for principal duties. Use "Skills" for knowledge, skill and abilities required. Use "About the role" for the descriptive paragraph. Use "Pay" for pay rates. Use "Schedule" for work schedule. Possibly also include "Requirements" for education and experience required (High school diploma, experience as mental health consumer/family member required, personal experience preferred). But we could fold those into Skills as well. However the instruction says we should prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine education/experience into Skills as well. But we also have "Experience as a mental health consumer or family member required for the position." That's a requirement. Could be under Requirements. But we can also put under Skills. Let's see typical: Requirements often include education, experience, certifications. Skills include abilities. Since we have both, we could have two sections: Requirements and Skills. That's still okay. But we want few sections; maybe three sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Pay+Schedule? But schedule and pay are distinct headings. The instruction says include a section ONLY when posting has real specific content for it. So we need to include Pay and Schedule sections because they have specific content. So we will have at least those two. Then we need to include About the role, Responsibilities, and maybe Requirements/Skills. Let's decide to have: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Pay, Schedule. That's five sections. Could we combine Requirements and Pay? No. Keep them separate. Now we need to extract content. About the role: The paragraph: "The Peer Navigator provides support, wellness and recovery services to clients and their support networks in the community. Peer Navigator is an entry level, unlicensed paraprofessional who has experience navigating the mental health system. The Peer Navigator will receive close supervision and is expected to develop best-practice wellness and recovery skills and techniques through experience and on-the-job training and instruction." Also earlier: "Candidates with ability to balance own journey to recovery to those of individuals we serve are preferred." That's more about candidate preference; could be part of About the role or Requirements. We'll include in About the role maybe. Responsibilities: The list under "PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:" includes many bullet points separated by periods and asterisks. We need to convert to

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Let's list them: - Assist clients in navigation of the mental health system, referral to various county agencies, community mental health organizations, accessing benefits, personal medical services, social and recreational opportunities, special events, conferences, workshops and training. - 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. We need to ensure we didn't miss any. Also there is an asterisk after some items; we ignore. Now Requirements: We have: - High School diploma, GED, or equivalent education. (E) - Personal experience in a mental health setting preferred. (D) - Human services experience such as facilitating groups; developing consumer-run, self-help activities; providing peer support. (D) - Personal experience receiving mental health services and willingness to share that perspective with others within the context of providing peer support. (E) - Experience as a mental health consumer or family member required for the position. (stated earlier) - Also maybe "Proven problem-solving skills and abilities." etc but those are under Knowledge, Skill and Abilities. We'll treat those as Skills. Thus Requirements section includes education and experience requirements. Now Skills: The knowledge, skill and abilities required list (E = Essential; D = Desired). We'll extract each bullet. List: - 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. We need to preserve all substantive information. We'll put each as li under
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  . Ensure we include all details: Pay rates for Union positions are set in the Collective Bargaining Agreement with SEIU Local 521. Each position has a total of six steps, Step 1 (entry level) through Step 6 (15 years of employment with the organization). Union staff are promoted from Step 1 to Step 2 upon their one-year anniversary. The current Step 1 rate for this position is $29.14/hr, and the current Step 6 rate for this position is $32.17/hr. Shift Differential (only for positions that have non-business hour shifts) In addition to our competitive salaries, we pay a shift differential for certain shifts in our 24-hour programs as follows: (Only 1 differential -whichever is highest will apply at a time). 6.25% additional pay for overnight (NOC) shift from 11 pm to 7 am 4.75% additional pay for evening shift from 5:30 pm to 10:59 pm 4.75% additional pay for weekend shifts from 12:01 am on Saturday thru 11:59pm on Sunday We need to preserve that exactly. Now Schedule section: Work Schedule is Friday 9:00am-1:00pm, Saturday 10:00am-7:30pm, Sunday 10:00am-7:30pm (Flexible). We'll put in

  . Now About the role: We'll include the paragraph plus maybe the candidate preference sentence. Let's craft About the role paragraph: "The Peer Navigator provides support, wellness and recovery services to clients and their support networks in the community. Peer Navigator is an entry level, unlicensed paraprofessional who has experience navigating the mental health system. The Peer Navigator will receive close supervision and is expected to develop best-p