Peer Network Coordinator
Peer Network Coordinator- Full-time
Camp Kim- South Korea
About Potomac Healthcare Solutions:
Potomac Healthcare Solutions is an award-winning, dynamic, and rapidly growing healthcare services company with a proven background in providing world-class health services for both government and commercial organizations. We are actively recruiting skilled, caring practitioners to support our rapidly growing program base and supported healthcare facilities. If you would like to be a part of a quality-driven organization and make a difference, we would like to talk to you!
About the Position:
The Peer Network Coordinator is responsible for comprehensive and effective coordination, development, and evaluation of programs and services that contribute directly and positively to preservation of the assigned unit’s force and families.
Responsibilities:
- Organize and oversee peer support networks for their assigned commands. These networks will be developed to accommodate service members and families
- Recruit active duty and family member peer support counselors, and ensure participating peer support counselors are vetted and trained according to standards established by DOD and USSOCOM
- Provide information and community resources to peer support counselors, and members of their assigned units and families
- Collect and report data for the purposes of formative and outcome evaluations of peer support programs and other community based support programs
- Identify and document program/service needs and evaluation data, and develop need’s based programming to serve specific demographic groups and geographic locations as required.
- Market available DOD resources, such as the Military OneSource, Military Family Life Consultants, and Peer to Peer Counseling Support Call.
- Lead and/or assist in the coordination and/or development of official processes, functions and networking opportunities for subpopulations served.
- Facilitate the provision of programs and services utilizing existing resources from within their assigned commands, DOD and the civilian sector.
- Assist with the development of standard operating procedures/service provision protocols, program development, community organizing, community outreach and liaison, serve as the commander’s representative for matters related to community and family support, and communicate on behalf of the command utilizing a variety of media/social media
Qualifications
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in education, human/social services or a related field OR four years’ experience providing social service education, or work/family life consultation or coordination services.
- Minimum of two years experience coordinating social service education programs.
- Must have, or be willing to receive, specialized training on peer support counseling, community resources and referrals and suicide prevention.
- Remain current on their knowledge of best practices and developments in areas of peer support counseling and suicide prevention, and will keep abreast of DOD, Service and community sponsored resources intended to promote the well-being of service members and their families.
Potomac Healthcare Solutions offers the following benefits:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Employer-paid Basic Life and AD&D
- Employer-paid Short-term Disability
- Voluntary Life and AD&D
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Holiday
- Paid Time Off
If you do not find interest in this opportunity but know of someone who may, we kindly ask that you refer the individual to Potomac Healthcare Solutions by forwarding this job posting.