Department:

Psychiatry-Centr ofExcel-OASIS - 412212

Research Professionals

10/15/2024

10/18/2024

Temporary Staff (SHRA)

Human Services Program Support Tech

20058165

S024189

Part-Time Temporary

3

Hours flexible based on supervisor's determination of operational needs.

North Carolina, US

$18.00 per hour

10/21/2024

6 months not to exceed 11 months

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill consistently ranks as
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The UNC School of Medicine has a rich tradition of excellence and care. Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of North Carolinians, and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research. We strive to promote faculty, staff, and learner development in a diverse, respectful environment where our colleagues demonstrate professionalism, enhance learning, and create personal and professional sustainability. We optimize our partnership with the UNC Health System through close collaboration and commitment to service.



OUR VISION

Our vision is to be the nation's leading public school of medicine. We are ranked 2nd in primary care education among all US schools of medicine and 5th among public peers in NIH research funding. Our Allied Health Department is home to five top-ranked divisions, and we are home to 18 top-ranked clinical and basic science departments in NIH research funding.



OUR MISSION

Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve. We accomplish this by providing leadership and excellence in the interrelated areas of patient care, education, and research.



Patient Care: We will promote health and provide superb clinical care while maintaining our strong tradition of reaching underserved populations and reducing health disparities across North Carolina and beyond.



Education: We will prepare tomorrow's health care professionals and biomedical researchers by facilitating learning within innovative curricula and team-oriented interprofessional education. We will cultivate outstanding teaching and research faculty, and we will recruit outstanding students and trainees from highly diverse backgrounds to create a socially responsible, highly skilled workforce.



Research: We will develop and support a rich array of outstanding health sciences research programs, centers, and resources. We will provide infrastructure and opportunities for collaboration among disciplines throughout and beyond our University to support outstanding research. We will foster programs in the areas of basic, translational, mechanistic, and population research.

Flexible work arrangements, including virtual/hybrid work locations, are an integral part of the School of Medicine's Working Forward initiative. As such, this position's work location is designated as hybrid. Please note that the designated work location is subject to change based on the unit's business needs.



The Family Worker will support parents and guardians of individuals with first episode psychosis in a digital intervention at two clinics in North Carolina as part of a research study. Altitudes is a digital platform for parents and guardians of individuals with first episode psychosis which consists of therapeutic content and a social media newsfeed. The Family Worker will interact with and connect families on Altitudes. In this capacity, they will post on the social media newsfeed of the Altitudes platform and will respond to family member's posts. They may also lead monthly or bimonthly virtual family member hangouts with participants in the Altitudes platform. Their caseload will be up to 20 individuals.

Demonstrated possession of the competencies necessary to perform the work.

Applicant must be the parent or guardian of an individual who experiences and receives (or has received) care for psychosis (e.g., schizophrenia, schizoaffective, other specified schizophrenia spectrum disorder).

Preference will be given to parents and guardians who have a family member that has received services from a first episode clinic (i.e., 'coordinated specialty care' CSC) for at least one year and those who have attended family therapy or multi-family group at a CSC program for at least one year.

Not Applicable.