Transitional Care Coordinator
Description
Location: Middletown, NY
Rate of Pay: $20.29 Hourly
Hours: Monday -Friday 9am - 5:30 with flexibility to be available at least 3 evenings per week
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NYS Certified Peer Specialist/NYS Certified Youth Peer Advocate or be able to obtain at least one of these certifications.
Seeking a Transitional Care Coordinator with lived experience with a mental health challenges and is willing and able to share that experience. The Transitional Care Coordinator will work with young adults ages 16-25.
Job Description:
In this role you will:
- Attend SPOA Meetings
- Share your lived experiences to support the young adult in the program
- Provide services in the form of direct support, information sharing, and skill building.
- Coach, educate, support, encourage young adult to use their voice and make informed choices.
- Increase young adult self-empowerment and advocacy skills.
- Mediate, facilitate, or bridge between young adult and agencies.
- Assist young adult in:
- Identifying natural supports
- Connecting to informal supports
- Discovering their own strengths
- Ensuring their plan is customized and individualized
- Defining what success looks like the young adult
- Resolving conflicts
- Integrating into community, school, and family
- Achieving successful independent living options
- Obtaining employment
- Transitioning into adulthood
- Navigating the public human services system
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have:
- Have a working knowledge of the MH, education, social, employment, and community services
- Must be able to relate to issues faces by young adults, while supporting and providing a positive attitude
- Demonstrated direct experience with their own mental health challenges
- Ability to work with a variety of agencies/organizations/schools
- Must be organized and able to prioritize
- Have good organization, writing and telephone skills
- Willingness to participate in ongoing trainings
- Report to the Senior Family Partner
- NYS Certified Peer Specialist/NYS Certified Youth Peer Advocate or be able to obtain at least one of these certifications
- Must have dependable transportation
EOE/AAE/M/F/D/V