UNIV - Violence Prevention & Intervention Client Advocate - Surgery: General Surgery
About The Position
The Department of Surgery is actively recruiting for an Violence Prevention and Intervention Client Advocate. This individual will work with violently injured youth and young adults in MUSC's Turning the Tide Violence Intervention Program (TTVIP), a hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP). Based out of MUSC Health - Charleston's Level 1 adult and pediatric trauma centers, the program aims to prevent and reduce community and interpersonal violence among youth and young adults by providing comprehensive wrap-around, multidisciplinary services to address patients' underlying risk factors and social determinants of violence. The purpose of this role is to provide direct hospital and community-based services, including performing need & risk assessments, mentorship, case management, healthcare navigation, resource referral, and long-term client and family support. This role also supports the provision of education and outreach to MUSC staff and community members on violence prevention and trauma-informed care.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree and one year relevant program experience.
- Driver's license to support client and community outreach activities required.
- Ability to be on-call and respond during evenings and weekends to support patients required (approximately 7-10 days per month on-call; average 3-5 after hour responses to the hospital per month; schedule is subject to change).
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in public health, social work, psychology, health education, or other human services field and at least 1 year of relevant experience required.
- Experience in community violence prevention and intervention or trauma-informed support services preferred.
- Experience working with diverse, high-risk youth required.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills required.
- Experience in motivational interviewing, mentorship/peer counseling, goal setting, and case management strongly preferred.
- Experience documenting service provision strongly preferred.
- Experience with the Microsoft Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel) required.
Responsibilities
- The advocate will provide long-term case management services to patients, which includes risk and needs assessments, developing action plans with patients, and coordinating multidisciplinary hospital and community services to address individuals' risks, social determinants of health, and injury recovery needs. This may include identifying and connecting patients to services for health and mental health, substance misuse, housing, employment, education, healthy relationships, criminal justice advocacy, arts and recreation programs, and other resources to address risks, needs and goals.
- The advocate will provide long-term follow-up services to enrolled clients, including outpatient care coordination, home visits and community service navigation.
- The advocate will work directly with patients at MUSC Health - Charleston's trauma centers who have experienced a community violence-related injury. When on-call, this person will provide immediate bedside response and support to patients and their family members, including liaising with law enforcement and clinical providers, anti-retaliation counseling, crisis management, and discharge safety planning.
- The advocate will document the provision of all services in patients' medical charts and the program's case management databases. This data is recorded for the purposes of documentation of the intervention, quality improvement, program evaluation, research, and grant-writing.
- The advocate will participate in related program activities including trainings, meetings, and other events. Similarly, this role supports hospital and community outreach and education to engage and educate healthcare trainees/students, hospital staff, community members, and other stakeholders on violence prevention and intervention strategies and trauma informed care.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Industry
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
