Substance Use Navigator (Department of Emergency Medicine)

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Posted Job Title

Substance Use Navigator (Department of Emergency Medicine)

Job Profile Title

Clinical Research Coordinator B

Job Description Summary

This full-time, in person position is for a Substance Use Navigator (SUN) who will be a core member of a collaborative care team. The team includes Penn Medicine on Demand clinicians (PMOD), the PI and Co- PI, program manager, and CRS Director. The SUN will be part of a partnership with the Philadelphia Department of Public Health project expanding low barrier buprenorphine treatment access via a Warmline. The ideal candidate will have experience and skills to rapidly establish rapport with recovering persons and to utilize an outreach moment to promptly engage and connect patients with opioid use disorder to a PMOD clinician, and community follow up care. This individual will also be involved in a number of projects and grant-based programming, relating to expanding and supporting services to increase access to substance use disorder treatment and resources within the Penn system and greater community. There are also opportunities to learn advanced skills including participating in grant applications, funding proposals and implementation of new projects. This person will develop relationships with community groups/agencies in partnership with others in the agency. The SUN will be responsible for updating and expanding resources within Penn and with community practices (communities of recovery, educational, vocational, social, cultural, spiritual resources, mutual self- help groups, professional services, etc.). This will involve a collaborative effort including the recovering person, agency staff and other relevant stakeholders. The SUN will be responsible for managing their own caseload of patients by providing patients with recovery education and by providing a model for both people in recovery and staff by demonstrating that recovery is possible. The SUN will maintain contact either in-person, by phone or e-mail with the recovering person once they are connected with care and throughout the intervention to ensure ongoing success and to provide re-engagement support in partnership with others in the agency if needed. This individual will assist the recovering person to identify their personal interests, goals, strengths and weaknesses regarding recovery and link them to needed resources. The SUN will help patients identify barriers to accessing care to assist in recovery-related activities and develop strategies to overcome those barriers. The target population are individuals with substance use disorders.