SUD Patient Navigator

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services. Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Position Summary

The SUD Patient Navigator is responsible for providing outreach, education, resource services, and care coordination to clients discharging from the Lynnwood Crisis Center into Sea Mar’s outpatient Behavioral Health sites and in the community.

Duties and Responsibilities

As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services. 

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:

• Understanding and empathizing with client needs
• Surpassing client expectations
• Demonstrating a high level of integrity
• Exhibiting compassion and commitment
• Advocating for social justice
• Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
• Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assists therapist/case managers in the following areas:

• Provides outreach and engagement services to individuals using drugs and/or alcohol who need treatment.
• Provides case management services to assigned consumers.  These services may include collaborating in the provision or actually providing assistance to the consumer and their family or significant others to obtain and/or maintain housing, income, employment, medical and mental health treatment, and meaningful social and recreational activities in the community.  It is expected that the provision of these services will constitute at least 50% of the CPC’s work.
• Assists the recovering person to identify their personal interests and goals in relation to recovery and integrating into the community.
• Educates clinical staff and others about the recovery process and the damaging role that stigma can play in undermining recovery.
• Assists recovering persons’ abilities, strengths and assets to assist them to recognize these strengths and use them to achieve their goals.
• Has an understanding of community resources such as vocational, social, cultural, spiritual, etcetera, as well as funding and how to help consumer’s access services as appropriate.
• Assures appropriate documentation of the above activities.
• Assists with case management for clients from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health programs; assists with obtaining records and maintaining records as needed; assists with administrative work as assigned by Program Manager.
• Participates in clinical consults with either Program Manager / Clinical Supervisor or assigned Therapist as well as seeks additional consultations as needed.
• Attends and participates in meetings as directed.
• Helps to create an environment in which good mental health and a climate of teamwork is fostered.
• As needed, provides on-site and off-site services to acute-care consumers, including groups, one-on-one support, and coordination with other clinic services and staff, including medical prescribers and crisis staff.
• Performs any other duties or special projects as assigned by the Program Manager / Clinical Supervisor.

Collaboration: 

• Collaborates with the Primary Clinician / Clinical Supervisor and fosters the ability of the program to assist the client in obtaining appropriate community resources, natural supports, and entitlements as identified through a comprehensive assessment and treatment plan, by providing case management to facilitate the arranging of these services and to assist the client in learning the skills necessary to obtain and keep these support