Peer Navigator

1 month ago


Bronx, New York, United States Vocational Instruction Project Community Services Full time
Job Title: Peer Navigator

Join our team at Vocational Instruction Project Community Services as a Peer Navigator, where you will play a vital role in supporting individuals with medical, behavioral, and mental health needs.

Job Summary:

The Peer Navigator will provide concrete services to engage individuals in a continuum of care, helping them achieve and maintain motivation for continuing their care while recovering from substance abuse and mental illness.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Provide clinical adherence management to clients in accordance with policy, procedure, and regulatory protocol.
  • Conduct in-person outreach to clients having difficulty maintaining adherence to treatment.
  • Assist with engaging patients lost to care, accompany clients to appointments, and document in ECW and AIRS.
  • Promote pro-social behaviors, facilitate groups, and maintain good working relationships with staff, clients, and visitors.
  • Conduct HIV and Hepatitis counseling, participate in Community Outreach activities, and attend agency programs staff meetings, trainings, and special projects as assigned by the Director.
Requirements:
  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Prior experience working with the target population.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to speak, read, and write the English language.
  • Bilingual English/Spanish a plus.
Work Environment:

The Peer Navigator must possess sight and digital senses or prosthetics that will enable the essential functions of the job to be completed.

Familiarity with life issues facing the target population, including HIV/AIDS, behavioral health, or other chronic illness, is required.

An understanding of community-level work and the importance of collaborating and coordinating with other organizations is necessary.

Salary:

$23.07 hourly



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