Department: Health Dept.
Pay: $20.10 per hour.
Work Schedule: Monday – Friday 8:00am – 5:00pm, evening and weekend work may occur.
Sedgwick County offers a comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees that includes health coverages, paid leave, regular compensation reviews, retirement plans, and professional development opportunities. For more detailed information, please visit our benefits page at SCBenefits.
The Care Coordinator Overdose Prevention works primarily in shelters to provide intensive care coordination to individuals who are unhoused and at risk of opioid or stimulant overdose. This work will improve community health by preventing disease and promoting wellness. The position provides support to peers and links peers to recovery-oriented systems of care and substance use, mental health and primary care providers. The position is required to become certified as a Kansas Peer Mentor (Substance Use) and Kansas Peer Specialist (Mental Health). The employee may have interactions with individuals who are angry, upset, or expressing frustration. Employee will provide support during public health emergencies.
Engage peers who may be at risk of overdose
- Initiate and develop on-going relationships with people who are at risk for overdose
- Interview peers, collecting and documenting qualitative and quantitative assessment data
- Implement identification, assessment, and referral strategies
- Coordinate with shelter staff and with outreach teams
- Drive to locations where peers are
- Serve as a trusted resource to peers and shelter staff
- Share “lived experience” and model successful behavior and strategies
Support peers through personalized intensive care coordination
- Link peers to resources, services and supports
- Support recovery planning by assisting peers to set goals and determine the status of the goals over time
- Interact with peers regularly to ensure they are supported through recovery-oriented systems of care
- Tailor support services provided to and with a peer
- Coach, education and communicate to peers and peers’ families in a culturally-appropriate and health literacy-appropriate manner
- Help peers to manage crises, to regain the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment
Communicate and collaborate with team, peers’ families and community partners
- Use respectful, person-centered, recovery-oriented language in written and verbal communication
- Coordinate with peers and organizations to enhance the provision of services and supports
- Utilize a trauma-informed framework with peers and organizations
- Accurately document work in case management database
- Participate in meetings to develop strategies to improve effectiveness
- Assist with data collection for grant deliverables
- Maintain Kansas Certified Peer Mentor and Kansas Certified Peer Specialist credentials by taking required continuing education after obtaining initial certificates.
Minimum Qualifications: High School diploma or equivalent. Per Sedgwick County Policy, this is a driving level position that requires a valid US driver’s license without restrictions and current proof of automobile insurance. Meet the eligibility for certification as a Kansas Certified Peer Mentor (KCPM) and Kansas Certified Peer Specialist (KCPS), including a minimum of one year in stable substance use recovery and one year in stable recovery from a behavioral health condition. Obtain Kansas Peer Mentor in Training (KPMT) and Kansas Peer Specialist in Training (KCPST) certificates within 4 months of hire. Obtain Kansas Certified Peer Mentor (KCPM) and Kansas Certified Peer Specialist (KCPS) certificates within 1 year of hire. Attend Mental Health First Aid, Person Centered Case Management and ASSIST training within 1 year of hire.
Preferred Qualifications: Kansas Certified Peer Mentor (KCPM). Kansas Certified Peer Specialist (KCPS). Proficiency in English and a language other than English; proficiency is demonstrated by passing a standardized test.
It is the policy of Sedgwick County not to discriminate in its programs or services provided to the general public, including employment and all other activities, on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, sex, age, disability, veteran status or any other similarly protected status. Sedgwick County is committed to making the application, interview, and pre-employment testing process accessible to persons with disabilities. If you wish to volunteer information regarding any special assistance you may need, please notify Human Resources by phone at (316) 660-7050, TDD (Kansas Relay at 711 or 800-766-3777). Do not use this phone number for employment questions. This number is provided only for those requiring ADA assistance. You will be contacted should the department feel that you are a qualified candidate.