What are the responsibilities and job description for the Peer Navigator position at Oaks Integrated Care?
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As a Peer Navigator, you'll make a meaningful difference in the lives of vulnerable youth ages 14-21 involved in NJ's foster care system. This role is designed for someone with lived experience - someone who is relatable and can connect though empathy, trust and shared understanding. The right support at this age can help change the direction of someone's future.
Travel throughout Atlantic, and Camden Counties required.
Schedule: Full-time, Varied Hours
Salary: $40,000 - $42,745 per year
Responsibilities:
- Harness own lived experience navigating foster care to engage, empower and connect with youth who are currently involved with the child welfare system.
- Serve as mentors, role models and "system navigators" to youth (ages 14-21) who are in the DCF foster care system and preparing for adulthood.
- Responsible for supporting the philosophy, mission and purpose of P2P, and its strength-based, trauma and healing informed care services to assist the youth in leading self-directed lives centered on fostering authentic goals-centered partnerships.
- Connect youth to resources and services necessary to support their individual growth and success.
- Assist youth in the foster care system to understand the different and key roles that various professionals such as child welfare, legal professionals (Law Guardian), advocates (CASA), and behavioral health system professionals (CSOC, CMO) play in their lives.
- Establish rapport with youth and provide guidance in youth’s identification, development, and planning of specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound goals to pursue.
- Ensure that youth assessments and data entry are completed on time to track youth progress.
- Attend ongoing supervision to process the challenges and barriers in working with youth, and to develop strategies to enhance youth mentorship.
- Schedule and attend appointments with youth and ensure that communication is maintained between appointments.
- Gain a thorough understanding of the roles of other professionals who assist the youth.
- Ability to maintain written communication logs and progress notes in a timely manner.
Benefits:
- Competitive base salary
- Medical and dental insurance
- Vision plan
- Retirement plan
- Flexible spending plans
- EXCELLENT time benefits for qualified positions!
- Opportunity for personal and career growth, including supervision towards professional licensure for eligible candidates
- Team-oriented environment – we practice the FISH! Philosophy
Qualifications:
- Education: Must have at least a GED or High School Diploma with lived experience in the child welfare system.
- P2P navigators are considered “near peers” and are required to be relatable to the youth.
- License: Required to possess a valid driver's license in good standing
All positions require a valid driver’s license in good standing and pre-employment drug screening. Oaks Integrated Care considers applicants for all positions without regard to: race; color; religion; sex; national origin; age; sexual orientation; marital or veteran status; the presence of a medical condition, genetic information or handicap, unrelated to performing the tasks of the job; or any other legally protected status.
Salary : $40,000 - $42,745