E/Quality Care Training Co-Facilitator – Part Time, Virtual
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Rainbow Heights Club is seeking a part-time, virtual training co-facilitator to support the enhancement and expansion of the E/Quality Care training program. The E/Quality Care Training Co-Facilitator will be responsible for collaborating directly with Rainbow Heights Club staff to prepare and co-facilitate LGBTQ+ and TGNC cultural competency trainings for health and human services providers in New York State.
Co-Facilitator Responsibilities:
- Co-facilitate between 3-5x E/Quality Care training webinars per month via Zoom with Director of Community Engagement
- All training scheduling with external agencies will be handled by Director of Community Engagement; Co-Facilitator is expected to respond in a timely fashion to availability queries
- Onboarding will include paid time spent viewing, evaluating and providing feedback on content and presentation of LGBTQ+ and TGNC trainings, to ensure their alignment with co-facilitator’s own clinical expertise and lived experience
Co-Facilitator Qualifications:
- Education: Master’s degree and licensure in Social Work or a related field
- Clinical Experience: A minimum of 2 years of clinical experience in the provision of behavioral health services in a community setting. Clinical experience working with LGBTQ+ (particularly TGNC) adolescents a huge plus, but not required.
- Training Experience: A verifiable track record of developing and delivering cultural competency or continuing education trainings for health and human services providers
- Communication Skills: Effective oral communication and presentation skills – particularly, comfortarticulating the clinical benefits of LGBTQ-affirming care, as well as answering participant questions and providing practice suggestions in real time
- Commitment to Organizational Mission & Values: Understanding of and commitment to addressing mental health disparities within LGBTQ+ communities, in particular for LGBTQ+ communities of color, TGNC people and people with disabilities
- Understanding of Racial and Economic Justice: Understanding of the impacts of racial, ethnic and economic marginalization on LGBTQ New Yorkers living with mental illness, and commitment to culturally competent, anti-oppressive clinical practice
- Service Familiarity: Knowledge of and connections to community resources that address the mental health, substance use, physical health, housing, etc. needs of low/no income LGBTQ+ New Yorkers
- Optimism: Ability to assume positive intent in training Q&As and respond in ways that foster growth
Location: Applicants must live and be familiar with the service landscape in New York State, but the duties of the position can be fulfilled virtually.
Hours/Duration: 8-15 hours per month. Trainings typically take place on Tuesdays before noon, but this position will periodically require scheduling flexibility beyond that. The training contract runs through the end of June 2023, at which point there could be the opportunity to renew for the following fiscal year.
Compensation: Training co-facilitator will be paid as a consultant at an hourly rate to be negotiated based on experience.
Application: Please email your cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject line, Training Co-Facilitator.
As an agency dedicated to peer support, we believe that clinical expertise is most impactful when paired with lived experience. Rainbow Heights Club is a project of Heights Hill Mental Health Service South Beach Psychiatric Center Community Advisory Board, Inc., which is an equal opportunity employer. We actively encourage applications from women, BIPOC, TGNC people, people living with disabilities, and people from other marginalized groups.
- Asking clients about their gender identity, correct name and pronouns (99%)
- Correcting themselves, apologizing and moving on if they accidentally use the wrong name or pronoun for a trans client (99%)
- Asking for clarification when a trans client uses a term they aren’t familiar with (100%)
- Knowing what questions are appropriate and helpful to ask during intake sessions (100%)
