Recovery & Housing Peer Navigator

Emotional Health Association; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

SHARE! Collaborative Housing in Los Angeles is seeking Peer Bridger staff to support residents in recovery-oriented housing. You will build personal recovery relationships, orient participants, and connect residents to self-help centers, groups, and funded programs.

You will collaborate with volunteers, owners, and staff to place residents, document activity, and adhere to recovery-focused policies. Flexibility for evenings/weekends and crisis support is required.

Qualifications

• Reliable transportation, driver's license, and active driver’s insurance policy.
• Proficiency in documentation and record-keeping.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of self-help support groups, peer support practices.
• Ability to work with both sober living and non-sober living residents.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with diverse populations.
• May be on call for problems that may arise after hours.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends (shifts are Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday through Saturday).
• Ability to normalize difficult situations and fluency in crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques.
• Basic knowledge of cultural competency, implicit bias and microaggressions.

Responsibilities

• Develops personal recovery relationships with housing residents to help with achieving their goals.
• Works with houses to develop a culture of recovery, establish policies, structure, schedule and activities.
• Enroll and orient participants and get informed consent for data collection.
• Connects residents to SHARE! self-help centers, self-help support groups, Volunteer-to-Jobs program and activities.
• Provides linkages to the mental health system and other governmental and non-governmental resources, including self-help support group meetings, volunteer opportunities, medical and mental health resources, money management, criminal expungement, benefits and other assistance as needed.
• Works with volunteers, participants and owners to develop good neighbor relations.
• Enrolls new Collaborative Houses, develops relationship with new owners and place participants.
• Finds new placements for residents who want or need them.
• Submits program reports as needed.
• Performs case management and documentation and submits in a timely manner using various platforms like Excel, CHAMPS, Salesforce.

Skills

Reliable transportation

Documentation

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Peer support practices

Crisis intervention

Flexibility with schedule

On-call availability

Education

Higher education or certifications in social work/psychology

Medi-Cal Peer Support certified

Job description

SHARE! Collaborative Housing in Los Angeles is seeking Peer Bridger staff to support residents in recovery-oriented housing. You will build personal recovery relationships, orient participants, and connect residents to self-help centers, groups, and funded programs.

You will collaborate with volunteers, owners, and staff to place residents, document activity, and adhere to recovery-focused policies. Flexibility for evenings/weekends and crisis support is required.