Part-Time Care Navigator

Compensation Range: $18/hr - $19/hr commensurate with experience 

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview:

The Part-Time Care Navigator supports Housing Specialists in providing comprehensive, client-centered services to individuals living with HIV. This role focuses on helping clients access housing resources, supportive services, and healthcare while promoting housing stability and improved health outcomes. The Care Navigator works closely with clients to identify barriers, coordinate services, and connect them with community resources. The Part-time Care Navigator works with clients in the Ryan White HPC Housing Placement Program and serves as a role model and advocate in the areas of entitlement, self-advocacy, empowerment, navigating systems, health and behavioral health, and housing.

Responsibilities:

• Provide concrete service delivery to clients as per program needs (i.e. benefits, entitlements, accompaniments to medical, behavioral health, and housing appointments) and connect them to community-based resources.
• Secure linkage to medical care and essential support services for individuals who test HEP C positive.
• Conduct outreach and engagement field work for clients who need further program engagement, and work with clients to identify barriers to engagement.
• Conduct home/field visits and maintain client engagement in accordance with program standards.
• Coordinate client services with internal and external service providers as directed by team leadership (field based or office based).
• Document client encounters in electronic health records.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned.

Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED required
• Good oral and written communication skills, as well as good interpersonal and customer service skills and the ability to effectively work as part of a team.
• Demonstrated computer proficiency, particularly with Microsoft Office and electronic health record systems.
• Demonstrated knowledge of HIV/AIDS, chronic medical conditions, mental illness, substance use, and homelessness, as well as a basic understanding of public benefits and entitlements.

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU

Salary : $18 - $19