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# Health Access Navigator at GLIDE

- **Company:** GLIDE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $30–$32/hr
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/glide/7e233e38-495c-4152-b243-9c073d8afb43

## Job description

## About Glide

GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization

Position Summary: GLIDE’s Health Access Programs are at the forefront of innovative and collaborative approaches in San Francisco. The program’s goals are to improve our community’s wellness through linkages to medical services, collaboration with community and city providers, advocacy for underserved and marginalized individuals and engagement in recovery and health improvement activities. The Health Access Navigator provides support to individuals with a history of substance use and co-occurring disorders who are in immediate need of harm reduction supplies, health services, and other support. The Health Access Navigator – provides supplies, information, and support to overcome barriers, provide early-interventions, and link to long-term services and care. Though trained cross-functionally across harm reduction navigation services, this position specifically supports on-site and outreach-based syringe access services (these services provide clients with sterile supplies and equipment for people who use drugs—PWUDs and other wrap around and integrated services).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Provide harm reduction supplies, including safe sex and safe using supplies, to community members via SAS desk and community outreach.
- Promote and recruit clients for syringe access services as well as HIV/Hep C services; and other social and health services and/or recovery and treatment services.
- Assist SAS Manager with all SAS data collection and preparation of monthly reports.
- Assist Community Engagement Coordinator with engaging community navigators during their training for and hours spent at the SAS desk and outreach.
- Provide group education, support groups and presentations. Will assist with preparing outreach materials.
- Provide prevention & health education including safer sex, and safer injection drug use, overdose prevention education for PWIDs (People Who Inject Drugs), distribute condoms, dams, lubrication, hygiene kits, and other harm reduction/prevention materials and supplies.
- Assist with GLIDE’s DOPE Program (Drug Overdose Prevention Education) and Narcan distribution to prevent opioid overdose and over ramping or overdose with methamphetamine and or other substances.
- Assist with coordinating community outreach activities and Special Events to promote testing, linkages to care, health and wellness, prevention education.
- Develop rapport and trust with clients, through motivational interviewing techniques, to ensure a smooth and successful transition to long-term services and their providers.
- Develop and maintain an effective network, based on collaborative efforts, with other GLIDE service providers and appropriate community service agencies, to provide comprehensive services to clients;
- Document service contacts and other efforts within program database and maintain accurate, current data, records and files, and documentation of clients’ progress.
- Apply strength-based, client-centered approach with adherence to cultural humility and trauma-informed service and harm reduction principles.
- Attend weekly individual supervision and other administrative meetings as directed by supervisor.
- Adhere to professional boundaries and standards, including requirements of HIPAA, best practices to maintain confidentiality, and reporting requirements (e.g., child reporting, abuse, etc.).
- Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as: collaborating with co-workers, meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, attending, and actively participating in staff and individual meetings, supervision, and in-service training.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Direct experience with harm reduction services (syringe access, outreach and health navigation).
- Experience providing direct social services to homeless and/or very low-income clients who are duel diagnosed and/or have experienced involvement in the criminal justice system.
- Knowledge of violence prevention and intervention de-escalation & harm reduction practices and motivational interviewing techniques.
- A minimum of 1-2 years harm reduction services, case management, or advocacy experience working with socially and/or economically marginalized, multiply diagnosed populations.
- Experience providing direct social services to homeless and/or very low-income clients who are dual diagnosed and/or have experienced domestic violence, and/or have been incarcerated.
- Proficiency in spelling, grammar and writing is needed to draft required documentation.
- Excellent interpersonal/communication skills; ability to maintain effective working relationships with clients.
- Experience with crisis management and ability to provide de-escalation in individual and group settings.
- Ability to work professionally and ethically, including ability to maintain confidentiality and privacy of persons, documents, data, and communications.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently while working to meet the demands of clients.
- Ability to plan and implement outreach objectives and other programs and services; and ability to collect data and prepare reports to record efforts.
- CA Rapid HIV/HCV Testing and/or Harm Reduction certification preferred.
- Current valid California Driving License in good standing preferred.

Physical Requirements

- This work can be physically and mentally demanding. As a result, employees may be frequently standing and walking. Physical stamina and a high energy level are essential to this role.
- Ability to move quickly to address emergencies.
- Must possess the strength, stamina and mobility to climb multiple flights of stairs, repeatedly in a given shift.
- Ability to hear within normal range, and communicate effectively (in person, telephone or zoom).
- Finger dexterity and the ability to use all standard office equipment.

Work Environment GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.

This role is covered by the collective bargaining agreement.

## About GLIDE

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice in San Francisco that provides integrated comprehensive services, free daily meals, housing assistance, behavioral health support, and advocacy to break cycles of poverty and marginalization.
- **Entity Type**: Non-profit (501(c)(3) foundation) – publicly supported charity
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (330 Ellis St, San Francisco, CA 94102)
- **Founded**: 1963 (GLIDE Memorial Church roots; incorporated as foundation later)
- **Founders**: Rev. Cecil Williams (founder of GLIDE Memorial Church) and Janice Mirikitani (co-founder of GLIDE's social service programs)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Social services, poverty alleviation, hunger relief, housing/homelessness services, behavioral health, domestic violence intervention, child and family services
- **Target customers**: Homeless, low-income, and marginalized populations in San Francisco (Tenderloin neighborhood); B2C (direct service recipients)
- **Mission statement**: “Create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.”

## Products & Services
- **Daily Free Meals Program**: Three free, nutritious meals served 364 days a year to anyone in need – 533,298 meals served annually
- **Welcome Center**: Immediate basic needs (shelter, hygiene, blankets) and emotional support with case management
- **GLIDE Women’s Center**: Trauma-informed support groups, case management, and counseling for women survivors of violence, homelessness, or isolation
- **Transitional Age Youth (TAY) Health & Wellness Center**: 24/7 center for youth ages 18–27 experiencing homelessness, offering respite, mentoring, and connection to long-term resources
- **Journey Home Program**: Client-centered relocation and reunification support to move people from homelessness toward stability
- **Health Empowerment & Access Team (HEAT)**: Harm reduction, medically assisted treatment, HIV/Hep-C outreach, testing, and health system navigation
- **Community Ambassador Program**: Street-level engagement and placemaking to support San Francisco’s economic revitalization (30×30 plan)
- **Janice Mirikitani Family, Youth and Childcare Center**: Child and infant care, after-school programs, and family counseling for low-income families

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not applicable (non-profit); annual operating budget not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 533,298 meals served per year; 3,937 people connected to social benefits (CalFresh, SSI) in recent period; $24 million secured in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Works in partnership with City of San Francisco leaders; receives state funding; coalition funding from California state budget
- **Growth Signals**: Expanding integrated mobile services; launching a new TAY Health & Wellness Center; developing a $31M fundraising plan (FY24); facility expansion and behavioral health services under current CEO Dr. Gina Fromer

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deeply rooted community trust**: 60+ years serving the Tenderloin, recognized as a “safe space” and oasis for those most in need
- **Integrated service model**: Combines meals, housing, healthcare, childcare, legal clinic, and advocacy under one roof, creating a holistic pathway out of crisis
- **National leadership in social justice**: Actively shaping policy and public narrative on poverty, homelessness, and racial justice from a faith-grounded but secularly inclusive foundation
- **Scale and reach**: One of the largest hunger relief and social service providers in San Francisco, with over 200 employees and thousands served daily

## Strategic Focus
- **GLIDE Forward plan**: Expand integrated and mobile services to reach more people citywide; raise $31M in FY24 for building repair, expansion, and behavioral health; showcase GLIDE as a national social justice leader through art and storytelling; improve business systems and infrastructure; center work on voices of marginalized people; inspire staff growth
- **30×30 alignment**: Supporting San Francisco’s economic revitalization through the Community Ambassador Program and low-threshold case management
- **Policy advocacy**: Secured $24M in state funding for housing subsidies, shelters, and mental health support through coalition building

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Supportive, diverse, and inclusive team environment rooted in radical inclusivity, justice, and love. “Work is meaningful and the people are great.”
- **Work environment**: Friendly, accepting, and informal (casual dress code noted)
- **Benefits**: Competitive salaries, medical and dental insurance, generous paid time off, retirement savings plans
- **Equal opportunity employer**: Proudly equal opportunity; will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records (San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance)
- **Growth opportunity**: Chance to be part of a transformative expansion under new CEO Dr. Gina Fromer, with a strong emphasis on staff development and “building the capacity to learn and iterate”
- **Hybrid/remote policy**: Not explicitly stated; likely on-site given service delivery nature, but check role-specific postings

## Sources
1. [glide.org – About](https://www.glide.org/about/)
2. [glide.org – Careers](https://www.glide.org/Careers/)
3. [jobs.lever.co/glide](https://jobs.lever.co/glide)
4. [guidestar.org – Glide Foundation Profile](https://www.guidestar.org/profile/94-1156481)

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