Oncology nurse navigator [h1.location_city]

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Job Type

Full-time

Description

Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Health Navigator will provide counseling and supported referrals for people who use drugs (PWUD) who are at high-risk of infection or are HIV / HCV / STI positive, while delivering harm reduction services in a drop-in setting. This includes : providing prevention and screening services to clients who use drugs, syringe exchange, safer use supply distribution, overdose prevention training, emergency response and overdose response, conflict de-escalation, motivational interviewing, crisis counseling, data collection and entry, and individual and group-level interventions aimed to reduce infectious disease transmission and increase access to care and treatment. The Health Navigator will seek to engage and empower clients with a focus on their strengths, dignity, and lived wisdom.

Representative Duties :

Provide accessible and low threshold services to PWUD that operate within the harm reduction framework.

• Assist PWUDs with warm connections to support services such as primary care, MAT and behavioral health, homeless shelters, housing, and legal advocacy.
• Connect PWUDs to HCV testing and treatment through relationship building, viral hepatitis education, and motivational interviewing.
• Conduct risk assessments and risk reduction plans. Provide harm reduction counseling on safer injection and vein care strategies, wound care, overdose prevention, sexual health and HIV / HCV / STI transmission.
• Train PWUDs in overdose prevention and how to use Naloxone. Distribute Naloxone and other safer use supplies and complete all associated MDPH data collection and internal data collection.
• Collect and distribute syringes from PWIDs. This includes safely handling, storing and disposing of syringes, and general biohazard and infection control protocols
• Administer Naloxone during overdose events and support revival efforts by way of calling 911 and using a bag valve mask / ambu bag until help arrives on scene.
• Escort clients to the building's bathroom, ensuring that all precautions, protocols and safety checks are performed.
• Conduct periodic sweeps of the outside perimeter to ensure that there are no discarded materials and ensure community safety.
• Work with team to organize daily operations and programs in the drop-in center, including opening and closing procedures to help ensure facilities are clean, safe and welcoming; creating and distributing harm reduction kits; and restocking and organizing supplies in the drop-in center.
• Assist in maintaining inventory levels of harm reduction supplies and work with leadership to adjust par levels as needed throughout the year.
• Coordinate with leadership to maintain organization of back supply closet and needle room.
• Participate in restorative justice protocols and support the community advisory board.
• Attend community meetings as necessary.

Effectively Carry-Out Administrative Duties

Participate in Planning and Implementation of New Interventions

Meet agency participatory expectations :

Requirements

Preferred qualifications :

Physical Requirements :

We offer competitive salaries, and for those who qualify, an excellent benefits package; including comprehensive medical and dental insurance plans, and a retirement plan with employer match. We also provide 12 paid holidays, paid vacation, and more.

LGBTQIA+ identified persons, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC), and individuals from other historically underrepresented communities are strongly encouraged to apply.

This is a union position in a Fenway Health bargaining unit represented by 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East.

Salary Description

$23.74- $26.10 / hour