Outreach Worker

Physician Affiliate Group of New York, P.C. (PAGNY); New York (NY); On-site; USD 42,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) is seeking an Outreach Worker for NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. The role involves mentoring high-risk youth, conducting community outreach, and connecting students with educational and social services.

Under supervision, you will canvass schools, organize groups on conflict mediation and anti-violence, and respond to crises to prevent violence through mentorship and support.

Responsibilities

• Recruit and manage a caseload of high-risk students and provide case management services.
• Canvass assigned school on foot and identify and diffuse hot spots for shootings and violence.
• Coordinate and facilitate groups that focus on anti-gun violence, conflict mediation & resolution, anger management, mindfulness, and leadership.
• Link participants and individuals to opportunities and programs in the community including vocational, educational, recreational and social services.
• Work closely with safety staff to identify and engage at-risk students.
• Serve as a visible, approachable presence during school hours to build relationships with students.
• Detect, interrupt, and mediate conflicts involving students inside and outside the school.
• Coordinate and facilitate restorative circle and conflict mediations.
• Respond to crisis situations promptly, deescalating conflicts, and preventing violence through intervention and mentorship.

Job description

Physician Affiliate Group of New York (PAGNY) has an opportunity for an Outreach Worker at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. Jacobi is a 457-bed, Level I Trauma Center and NCB has 213 licensed beds. The hospital maintains a strong academic affiliation with Albert Einstein College of Medicine to maintain its high healthcare delivery standards.

The mission of NYC Health + Hospitals is to extend equally to all New Yorkers, regardless of the ability to pay, comprehensive health services of the highest quality in an atmosphere of humane care, dignity, and respect. Their Values are built on a foundation of social and racial equity and has established the ICARE standards for all staff.

NYC Health + Hospitals is the nation’s largest municipal health care delivery system in the United States. Dedicated to providing the highest quality health care services to all New Yorkers with compassion, dignity and respect, and regardless of immigration status or ability to pay.

The SUV Stand Up to Violence is a gun violence prevention initiative run out of NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi. The SUV program is an evidence-based, violence reduction initiative that treats gun violence as a disease, by identifying its cause and it's causes and interrupting its transmission. The program hires a community outreach team of credible messengers - individuals who are hired from the communities in which they work and have backgrounds similar to those with whom they aim to connect - mentor the highest risk youth with an emphasis on conflict mediation and violence prevention.

In order to prevent violence, methods and strategies associated with disease control are implemented:

• Detecting and interrupting conflicts - Outreach Workers identify and mediate conflict between high-risk individuals and groups in order to prevent violence and ongoing acts of retaliation.
• Treating the highest-risk individuals, the Outreach Worker mentors and supports high-risk youth and young adults (ages 14 to 28) and connect them to educational, vocational, recreational, and social services.
• Changing social norms.

Opportunity Details

Under the direction of Assistant Program Director and in collaboration with the School Coordinator, the Outreach Worker will:

• Recruit and manage a caseload of “high risk” students and provide case management services. Responsible for mentoring these participants with a focus on providing alternatives to high-risk and violent behavior.
• Canvass assigned school on foot (through safe passages) and identify and diffuse “hot spots” for shootings and violence.
• Coordinate and facilitate groups that focuses on anti-gun violence, conflict mediation & resolution, anger management, mindfulness, and leadership.
• Link participants and individuals to opportunities and programs in the community including vocational, educational recreational and social services.
• Work closely with safety staff to identify and engage at‑
• Serve as a visible, approachable presence during school hours to build relationships with students.
• Detect, interrupt, and mediate conflicts involving students both inside and outside the school.
• Coordinate and facilitate restorative circle and conflict mediations.
• Respond to crisis situations promptly, deescalating conflicts, and preventing violence through intervention and mentorship.