What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Health Navigator, CCBHC position at The Thresholds?
Job Description
Job Description
The Peer Health Navigator (Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic) CCBHC provides peer support and care coordination aimed at assisting individuals who are experiencing serious mental illness with health and wellness goals, with a focus on obtaining health care services. The Peer Health Navigator utilizes and discusses personal experiences regarding his or her recovery from mental illness when providing services to promote recovery and healthy living. This role engages participants by compassionately and collaboratively assessing participant needs and goals, personal strengths, addressing barriers to wellness, providing linkage to services and resources, and developing plans to achieve wellness goals.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions :
- Empowers members to find solutions for health problems and concerns.
- Collaborates with participants in creating a plan to address the participant’s physical health and wellness goals.
- Compiles and shares healthcare and wellness resources in CCBHC communities of focus.
- Assists members with obtaining access to healthcare resources including navigating through systems of healthcare and social services and accompanying participants to appointments.
- Works with participants through peer support and frequent communication, utilizing relationship building, selective self-disclosure, motivational interviewing, and a strengths-based approach.
- Participates in weekly supervision, meetings, conferences, and committees as assigned.
- Provides basic advocacy, assessment and planning of health care services.
- Assists participants in collaborating with community health and social service providers and partner agencies to identify barriers and service gaps.
- As needed, works with all members in the cohort to assure appointments are kept and prescriptions are filled.
- Electronically documents services provided to caseload.
- Completes the NOMS (National Outcome Measures) and submits them timely.
- Maintains a shared caseload of participants.
- Ability to engage individuals who are experiencing mental illness and substance use.
- Ability to work with vulnerable populations in a non-judgmental manner and to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Awareness and sharing of own individual life experience and its impact on health care participation and physical health goals. Able to share this experience with participants served to help meet their own goals.
- Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing; basic computer skills sufficient to document services and navigate electronic health systems and resources.
- Ability to transport self to and from off-site locations.
- Other duties as assigned
MARGINAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
EDUCATION
EXPERIENCE
WHAT SETS THRESHOLDS APART
Subject to increase based on education and experience
Thresholds is a mission-driven agency with a deep commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We foster an environment where all feel valued and respected, a place where every employee can be themselves, thrive, and support the agency’s mission. Click here to learn more.
One of the oldest and largest community mental health organizations in Illinois, we pride ourselves in being a Chicago Tribune Top Workplace and one of Chicago’s 101 Best & Brightest Companies to Work For, several years in a row.
Salary : $43,160
