Outreach Care Coordinator - AtlantiCare

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:

* The Outreach Care Coordinator will have at least two years of substance use disorder, behavioral health or related experience with persons who inject drugs in a harm reduction setting.

* Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, STDs, hepatitis and other blood-borne infections, harm reduction concepts and principles, local substance use disorder and health care services, criminal justice systems and other social service resources

* Previous experience implementing support groups and training and be a self-directed, motivated, and flexible person with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

* Must have valid driver’s license

* BA/BS preferred

GENERAL FUNCTIONS:

Provides outreach and case management services and may perform specialized activities and functions to assist individuals accessing medications for substance use disorders.

REPORTS TO: Recovery Support Supervisor

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Participate in daily drop-in operations including opening and closing procedures to help ensure MOV and program spaces are clean, safe, and welcoming.

* Conduct street-level outreach activities for active users in areas or neighborhoods identified as high-risk or high-need within program catchment areas.

* Recruit and engage high-risk, hard to reach people who use drugs or engage in sex work, including injection drug users.

* Provide substance use and sexual risk assessments and discuss individualized risk reduction and harm reduction strategies including safer injection education, risk reduction strategies around substance use and sexual practices.

* Provide low-threshold referrals and connect clients with medical care, substance use treatment, and other social services and assist with home inductions, when necessary.

* Assist with the provision of overdose prevention trainings and Narcan distribution and document incidences of overdose and reversals.

* Keep accurate, consistent, complete, and intelligible records and data on all program activities and/or clients and provide program director with reports in a timely manner.

* Provide an evidence-based comprehensive case management assessment, develop care plans, coordinate services, provide referrals and do follow-up, collect and enter admission, treatment and follow-up data, including GPRA interviews.

* Refer and link clients to community resources (i.e., county welfare and social services, housing, employment and the JBRC Recovery Community Center).

Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Protected Veterans/Disabled