Family Medicine-411601

Research Professionals

06/11/2024

06/30/2024

No

Permanent Staff (EHRA NF)

FIT Wellness Program Manager

EHRA Non-Faculty Research

20064772

NF0008224

Full-Time Permanent

1

40

North Carolina, US

$67,000 - $77,000

07/15/2024

The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the nation’s leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.
Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.
Education: We will prepare tomorrow’s health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.
Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

The UNC Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) Program is situated within the Department of Family Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. The FIT Program is a partnership between UNC Family Medicine, the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction (DAC) (which administers the state prison system), Federally Qualified Health Centers, County Departments of Health, community-based organizations, and local reentry councils. The FIT Program coordinates with existing state and local resources to assist people coming out of incarceration with connections to essential health services. A specially trained Community Health Worker (CHW), with prior justice system involvement, acts as a peer navigator to connect to services. FIT was designed to leverage existing community and statewide investments in reentry and address the absence of linkages to essential healthcare for people coming out of incarceration that suffer from chronic disease, mental illness, and/or substance use disorder. FIT is modeled on an evidence-based program developed by the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN), which has demonstrated reduced utilization of emergency services, hospitalizations, and days incarcerated. FIT CHWs are integrated into their local community health center and assist clients upon reentry in establishing care at a primary care medical home, and if needed, obtain mental health and substance use disorder treatment. CHWs also assist clients with all aspects of reentry including housing, job training, legal needs, education, transportation, life skills, and interactions with the justice system. The mission of the FIT Program is to empower community members upon their return from incarceration to become self-sufficient and to reach their health and wellness goals. Since its inception, FIT has taken on additional projects that align with the program’s mission to improve health outcomes and decrease recidivism for formerly incarcerated people.
In 2022, the FIT Program launched a pilot, named FIT Wellness, to provide psychiatric and primary care services to individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) releasing from prison in Wake County. Given the success of the pilot, the state has awarded the program with funding to continue the work in Wake County and expand services to Orange, Durham, and New Hanover counties. The FIT Wellness program seeks to hire a full-time Program Manager. The Program Manager will have significant oversight of the implementation, development, budget, and management of the FIT Wellness program at all county sites. The Program Manager is responsible for expanding the FIT Wellness program to Orange, Durham, and New Hanover counties in addition to supporting the existing program in Wake County. Additionally, this position will supervise four full-time Community Health Workers within the Wake County FIT Program, based at the UNC REACH Enhanced Primary Care clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina. The position will function as the lead member of a highly integrated and interdisciplinary team and work closely with respective internal and external partner agencies.

Relevant post-Baccalaureate degree required (or foreign degree equivalent); for candidates demonstrating comparable independent research productivity, will accept a relevant Bachelor’s degree (or foreign degree equivalent) and 3 or more years of relevant experience in substitution. May require terminal degree and licensure.