Community Resilience Coach - 139466

The UCSD Prosocial Skills Program (PROS) is a collaboration between the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and the UC San Diego Health Level I Trauma Center - Injury Prevention Program.

The UCSD Prosocial Skills Program (PROS) is a multipronged prevention and intervention program addressing key drivers of gun violence in the San Diego community. UCSD PROS boosts economic stability of at-risk community members via service navigation, career coaching, interpersonal skill building, and tattoo removal. The current expansion of UCSD PROS includes a new hospital-based violence intervention and prevention (HVIP) program at UC San Diego Health's Level 1 Trauma Center in Hillcrest and a school-based resilience program to build protective factors among San Diego Unified at-risk middle and high school youth and their families.

The Community Resilience Coach is a licensed clinical social worker who provides patient-centered and trauma-informed behavioral health service navigation and case management to eligible trauma patients, and/or their family members, admitted due to violent injury. This role aims to stabilize and improve violent injury patients' outcomes, mitigate social and economic drivers of gun violence, and promote protective factors and patient self-efficacy. The Community Resilience Coach delivers PROS Soft Skills and resilience coaching, conducts assessments, and works collaboratively with other UCSD PROS staff (e.g., Service Navigator, Peer Support Specialist, Career Coach) to support the fulfillment of enrolled patients' individual service plans.

In collaboration with other hospital-based PROS team members, the Community Resilience Coach will also deliver off-site prevention services at San Diego Unified School District locations - facilitating evidence-based resilience curriculum for healthy coping skills to protect against trauma and violence, and connecting parents/guardians of enrolled youth to UCSD PROS Core Services as needed.

• Must be a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

• Experience working with youth or young adults.

• Prior work experience in training facilitation of evidence-based manualized curriculum.

• Experience working with individuals impacted by violence or involved with the justice system and youth experiencing mental health challenges.

• Knowledge of trauma-informed care practices and evidence-based mental health treatments.

• Working knowledge of DSM-V categories and differential diagnosis.

• Understanding of suicidal behavior and ability to assess suicide risk and create appropriate treatment plan.

• Knowledge of mandated reporting requirements and other significant legislation and laws regulating mental health practice.

• Prior work experience connecting individuals with social services.

• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with clients, family members, and coworkers.

• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with community partners and in a hospital trauma or emergency departments with victims of gunshot or penetrative injuries.

• Excellent organizational and analytical skills.

• Proficiency with Windows-based software.

• Current certification as a Violence Prevention Professional or Community Health Worker.

• Current certification as a Community Resiliency Model instructor.

• Prior work experience in violence prevention and intervention programming and supporting persons experiencing gang involvement, homelessness, physical disability, or mental illness in San Diego County.

• Prior work experience collaborating with hospital security and San Diego Police Department for patient safety.

• Deep experience providing case management, mental health and other supportive services to individuals and families throughout San Diego County, especially Southeast San Diego, South Bay, and Central San Diego.

• Prior work experience in a healthcare setting, especially emergency department and/or trauma units, and using the Epic electronic medical record.

• Bilingual skills in English and Spanish.

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check and pre-employment physical.

• Must be able to work various hours and locations based on business needs. May be required to travel to and from UCSD Hillcrest to San Diego Unified Schools.

• Must pass San Diego Unified School District background check.

• Employment is subject to a criminal background check.