Prevention Navigator - Manhattan

Compensation Range: $21/hr - $24/hr commensurate with experience 

Benefits:
We have three comprehensive healthcare plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview:

Working across two harm reduction program locations, the Prevention Navigator is responsible for engaging participants in comprehensive prevention, harm reduction, and supportive services. As a member of the multidisciplinary team, the Prevention Navigator provides outreach, screening, care coordination, health education, and navigation services to individuals at risk for or living with substance use disorders, HIV, viral hepatitis, and other health conditions. The Prevention Navigator works closely with program staff, medical providers, case managers, behavioral health professionals, and community partners to ensure participants are connected to prevention services, treatment, healthcare, benefits, and other supportive resources. The position promotes low-threshold, participant-centered, and trauma-informed engagement while supporting continuity of care across both program locations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct participant engagement, navigation, and support services across two harm reduction program sites.
• Conduct participant screenings and assessments related to prevention services, health needs, and social determinants of health.
• Educate participants on harm reduction strategies, overdose prevention, safer substance use practices, HIV prevention, STI prevention, viral hepatitis, and other wellness topics.
• Facilitate referrals and linkage to services including primary care, substance use treatment, mental health services, housing, benefits, HIV care, Hepatitis C treatment, and other community-based resources.
• Support participant enrollment and retention in prevention and treatment programs.
• Assist individuals in accessing and adhering to HIV prevention services, including PrEP and PEP, as applicable.
• Promote access to Hepatitis C screening, treatment, and follow-up care.
• Maintain ongoing communication with participants to encourage engagement and continuity of care.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary staff to develop and implement participant-centered service plans.
• Conduct follow-up activities to monitor referral outcomes and participant progress.
• Document participant encounters, referrals, and services provided in electronic health records and/or data management systems in a timely and accurate manner.
• Participate in case conferences, team meetings, quality improvement activities, and program trainings.
• Maintain confidentiality and comply with all applicable organizational, regulatory, and funding requirements.
• Support program outreach and community engagement activities as needed.
• Travel between assigned program locations and community sites as required.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a health field or equivalent in experience preferred
• Minimum 1 year of relevant non-profit employment experience required (i.e. outreach, testing, group facilitation, case management, etc)
• Knowledge of HIV/AIDS, homelessness, substance use and mental illness, and LGBT youth issues
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously
• Strong documentation/computer skills (Word, Excel, etc)
• Good verbal and written communications skills

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established New York State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the social entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to quality housing, healthcare, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ New York City employees represented by a labor union known as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment related to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a collective bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU