Staff Analyst, Health (Navigation Team)

Salary Range: $6,806.73-$9,820.80 monthly

SUMMARY

The Office of Diversion and Reentry (ODR) within the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services is seeking a Staff Analyst to join its Navigation Team.

This team supports community providers and clients with histories of homelessness and severe, persistent mental illness who are diverted from the Los Angeles County jails into community-based services.

ODR clients are referred to community agency providers offering intensive clinical case management, ensuring continuity of care as individuals transition from custody to the community and work toward long-term stability and permanent supportive housing.

The Staff Analyst (SA) on the ODR Navigation Team provides technical guidance, project coordination, and programmatic oversight to promote high-quality, harm-reduction, and trauma-informed practices among ODR community providers serving clients at elevated risk of psychiatric crisis.

This hybrid, field-based, role supports the team by monitoring high-acuity cases; triaging and liaising with providers; coordinating with community-based services; assisting with hospitalization processes, including transportation; and conducting follow-up with providers regarding high-risk clients.

Currently, ODR has a hybrid work schedule with a combination of workdays in the office, in the field and remote.

This may change at discretion of DHS.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Programmatic Oversight and Provider Support


* Provide technical and programmatic oversight and guidance to community-based providers serving ODR clients with severe mental illness and elevated risk of psychiatric crisis.


* Promote and support harm-reduction, trauma-informed, and client-centered practices across provider networks.


* Serve as a resource to program partners by providing timely clinical consultation, guidance, and support.

High-Acuity Case Monitoring and Clinical Consultation


* Monitor, track, and assess high-acuity client cases to ensure timely intervention, continuity of care, and adherence to ODR standards.


* Triage urgent clinical and programmatic issues and coordinate appropriate responses.


* Consult on complex cases with interdisciplinary teams; develop, review, and communicate clinical recommendations to ensure clients receive services at the appropriate level of care based on acuity.


* Review and oversee the evaluation of medical and mental health records to support case consultation and identify factors contributing to client risk.

Crisis Response and Hospitalization Coordination


* Engage in field-based team interventions as needed, including coordinating or directly facilitating voluntary or involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations.


* As appropriate, participate in team-based interventions that may include assisting with the safe transfer of a client onto a gurney during involuntary hospitalization.


* Assist with hospitalization-related processes, including care coordina...