SUD Navigator

POSITION SUMMARY:

• Serve as part of an integrated, comprehensive community mental health team supporting individuals with severe and persistent mental illness.

• Provide social support, community resource referrals, and advocacy for patients and their families.

• Deliver crisis management services as part of a comprehensive care management approach.

• Provide direct clinical services, including individual, group, and family therapy.

• Offer skill-building support to patients.

• Assist patients in setting personal goals and applying recovery principles.

• Conduct ongoing follow-up, basic motivational interviewing, and goal setting.

• Provide therapy for patients with behavioral health issues complicated by environmental or personal challenges.

• Fully integrate into the patient care team and actively participate in care planning.

• Identify and communicate psychosocial issues that may complicate patients’ health conditions to medical staff.