Gilead - Community Navigator

Established in 1968, Gilead has over 50 years of experience providing the highest quality services that support each person’s recovery from mental health or substance use challenges in their lives. Gilead empowers personal growth, independence and recovery through improved mental health, physical well-being, and community integration. Gilead’s supportive and collaborative services are marked by excellence, compassion, innovation, and integrity.

Gilead Community Services is seeking an attentive and recovery-oriented Community Navigator to provide clinical and administrative services in our outpatient mental health support service.

About the position:
The Community Navigator for Gilead’s Middletown area mental health community support service works 40 hours: Monday – Friday 8AM-4PM with some flexibility required providing case management, advocacy, educational, and supportive services to adults with major mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders. The individual in this role carries out all phases of clinical services including intake, engagement, assessment, treatment planning, case management, referral, and discharge. Services are provided in home and in the community as well as in office. This role also requires the timely completion of required documentation including assessments and other treatment planning.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a human service field; Master’s degree preferred
• One year of clinical experience
• Must maintain and provide proof of valid driver’s license and automobile insurance in good standing
• Reliable use of personal vehicle as needed
• Experience with co-occurring psychiatric and substance abuse disorders required
• Ability to work flexible hours when necessary

Benefits:

• Generous paid vacation, sick, and personal time plus paid holidays
• Affordable, employer-sponsored medical and dental insurance (Gilead pays 88%)
• Employer-provided long-term disability and life insurance (Gilead pays 100%)
• Hands-on learning experience and supervision
• Scholarship, tuition reimbursement, and professional development opportunities
• Paid training, education, and certification as necessary (including CPR training)

This is a non-union position and pays $41,000-$51,000 annually dependent on level of education and experience.

Responsibilities:

• Providing clinical knowledge regarding severe and prolonged mental health and substance abuse disorders through training and education
• Providing recovery-oriented clinical case-management services with an emphasis on dignity, respect, and inclusion of family and other natural supports to a case load of 25 or fewer clients
• Providing resource navigation, support and advocacy for individuals’ needs in areas including entitlements, housing, food, clothing, pursuit of personal interests, vocational interests and finance management
• Coordinating the clinical care for clients’ mental health needs and assessing for risks, implementing risk management plans as necessary
• Monitoring positive outcome measures and ensuring program compliance through accurate and timely data reporting
• Completing assessments, treatment plans, and other documentation electronically and on paper in a timely manner
• Acting with compassion, integrity, and ethics

Gilead employees are held to standards and regulations set by the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) and other regulatory bodies. These standards are outlined in Gilead’s “Standards of Conduct” policy. It’s important that these standards and regulations are met through all duties performed, outcomes achieved, and conditions kept within the organization.

We support equality for and advancement of all people, based on their qualifications and actions alone, without regard to color, gender, age, religion, national origin or disability.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary : $41,000 - $51,000