Housing First Coordinator: Community Support Program - Danvers, United States - Eliot Community Human Services

Description

$3,000 Sign On Bonus

Eliot's Homeless Services Division has been recognized regionally and nationally for its work in the Mass & Cass area of Boston, having housed more than 150 people from tent encampments.

Due to increased funding for positions, we are seeking additional Housing First Coordinators to expand and build upon our current stabilization team in the North Shore.

The team leverages access to government funding which provides flexible housing options for individuals served; and operates within a large multi-agency effort to reduce chronic homelessness, with the CSP-HI team providing ongoing intensive housing stabilization.

The ideal candidate is open-minded, tenacious, and willing to engage with honesty and empathy using a harm reduction framework.

We are seeking staff with a genuine respect for clients' decisions as they take their unique pathway to recovery from addiction, trauma, health and mental health concerns, homelessness and legal-involvement.

Our team is rich with experience and talent- multidisciplinary teams are comprised of Housing Coordinators, Recovery Coaches, an expressive art therapist, and supervision from psychiatric, nursing, and clinical social work experts in specialized treatment modalities within addiction medicine, harm reduction, holistic, trauma-informed behavior change, and healing.

Funded through MassHealth, the housing coordinator will provide person-centered, strengths-based case-management.

Responsibilities include conducting needs assessments, collaborative goal planning with clients, and providing weekly support services to successfully address barriers within a robust and well-resourced continuum of care and support.

The position requires a commitment to ongoing, consistent documentation in our eHana data system in order to maintain strong client support.

Housing Coordinators will collaborate with clients to identify and address short, medium, and longer term objectives with the ultimate goal of successfully maintaining long-term sustained housing, financial independence and emotional well-being.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure clients are treated with dignity & respect according to ECHS' Human Rights Policy
• Engage in client-centered/harm-reduction/Housing First framework.
• Forge and maintain positive/ productive working relationships with community members and coalitions

Maintain and grow relationships with collateral contacts, and community providers (i.e., mental health, primary care, etc.)

• Advocate to ensure that client interactions with support services and interventions are as person centered/strength based/recovery oriented as possible
• Collaboratively develop and implement needs assessments and action plans with clients that improve their success in sustainable housing
• Maintain client records, document progress/setbacks collateral contacts, and additional assessments within the Eliot database eHana
• Provide weekly updates assessing client's clinical, safety, and stabilization needs
• Address ongoing clinical and/or systemic needs - with attention to potential risk factors
• Develop and implement safety response plan as needed
• Use consultation from the multidisciplinary team and direct supervisor as needed
• Working knowledge of Boston area resources and providers is a plus
• Familiarity with the challenges related to homelessness, substance use, mental illness and trauma is a must.

Qualifications:

One of the following:

• 2 years case management or comparable experience with the homeless population
• Lived experience with substance use disorder, homelessness, or mental illness
• Bachelor's degree in a human services field; social work, psychology, human services, or sociology preferred

Schedule:
Full time. 40 hours per week. Monday - Friday, 9am- 5pm, with some schedule flexibility

Salary:
Bachelor's degree- 48k annually, Master's degree- 50k annually

Bilingual candidates in needed language are strongly encouraged to apply and are eligible for a 6% salary increase upon hiring.

Spanish speaking is highly needed. This is a Union supported position that offers annual salary increases and increased paid time off accruals.

Location:
Community based work with an office in Lynn. Metro North catchment area is between Lynn and Salisbury. Car is required. Mileage reimbursement after the first trip to the Lynn office.

Meeting clients in the community is a requirement from MassHealth and paramount to building rapport and success in our program.

Eliot is a large human service organization


We offer:
* a generous benefits package
* paid training and conferences
* tuition reimbursement

• MBTA pass reimbursement and mileage reimbursement

* opportunities for personal and professional growth

Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized

racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.