Family Advocate

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Summary: VNS Health Family Advocates guide children and families through challenging times by connecting them with essential resources and support, leveraging lived experience to navigate complex systems. Highlights: 1. Leverage lived experience to guide families through challenging times. 2. Act as a trusted navigator of complex systems for VNS Health clients. 3. Collaborate with an interdisciplinary team to support client needs. Apply Now Overview VNS Health Family Advoces embody our core values of Emphy, Integrity, and Agility by helping children and their families access life changing resources whether it’s basic needs of housing and public assistance or community resource programs th support social emotional wellbeing. This role draws on lived experience to guide others through challenging times. Family Advoces are trusted navigors of complex systems th help VNS Health clients live and heal home surrounded by their family and community. VNS Health provides vital client-centered behavioral health care to New Yorkers most in need, across all stages of life and mental well-being. We deliver care wherever our clients are, including outpient clinics, clients’ homes, and the community. Our short- and long-term service models include acute, transitional, and intensive care management programs th impact the most vulnerable populions, from children, to adolescents, to aging adults. As part of our fast-growing Behavioral Health team, you’ll have an opportunity to develop and advance your skills, whether you’re early in your career or an experienced professional. Wh We Provide   Attractive referral bonus opportunities    Generous paid time off (PTO), starting 20 days of paid time off and 9 company holidays  Health insurance plan for you and your loved ones, Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability   Employer-mched retirement saving funds  Personal and financial wellness programs   Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (FSAs) for healthcare and dependent care    Generous tuition reimbursement for qualifying degrees  Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement   Internal mobility, CEU credits, and advancement opportunities    Interdisciplinary network of colleagues through the VNS Health Social Services Community of Professionals    Wh You Will Do Applies mutually shared and lived experiences naviging the systems of care as a caregiver. Serves as a role model, advoce, and mentor for children and families  Assists with obtaining and maintaining clients’ entitlements, including Medicaid, Public Assistance, SSI as well as assisting with problems reled to housing or utilities  Interviews clients and significant others, when approprie, in order to obtain personal histories and to understand the social and emotional factors reled to the client’s mental health problems  Participes in frequent active engagement with families to engage them in receiving services and assists in empowering them to take the steps necessary to maximize their quality of life  Develops inventory of resources th will meet the clients’ needs as identified in the assessment process Advoces for and assists clients in utilizing adjunctive community resources. Arranges transportion and accompanies clients to approprie facilities/agencies, as necessary  Provides linkage, coordinion with, referral to and follow-up with other service providers. Monitors appointments medical facilities, social service agencies or other providers of concrete services  Collabores with interdisciplinary team members to discuss care needs and identify solutions to support clients/consumers/members  Attends planning meetings with service providers to coordine service plans  Inities written (including clinical and progress notes) and verbal communicions, and ensures th all pient record keeping is in compliance with agency, ste, city and federal requirements  Participes in agency and community programs and educion, as requested  Participes in interdisciplinary team meetings, case conferences, staff meetings, quality assurance meetings, and supervision meetings as required  Qualificions Licenses and Certificions: Valid driver’s license (i.e., license mching ste of residence) required Credentialed family peer advoce preferred Educion: Bachelor's Degree in social work, health and human services or a reled field preferred Two or more years of equivalent and relevant experience in a social service agency OR an equivalent combinion of the educion and experience preferred Work Experience: Minimum of one year of experience in a mental health or social service setting with emphasis on family support services and/or family psycho-educion required Lived experience as a caregiver for children with behavioral health needs in accordance with the New York Ste Office of Mental Health and the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. required Bilingual skills may be required as determined by operional needs   Pay Range USD $20.98 - USD $26.23 /Hr. About Us VNS Health has been committed to meeting the needs of New Yorkers for over 130 years. We’re one of the largest nonprofit home- and community-based health care organizions in the country, and today, more than 11,500 team members work together to make a difference in the lives of more than 99,000 pients and members on any given day.Apply Now