EXEMPT: No – full time or part time regular employment
REPORTS TO: Program Director
COMPENSATION: $18-$20.00/hour DATE: October 1, 2020
SUMMARY: The Social Worker II/Housing Navigator is responsible for the development and management of individual recovery plans for 15-18 chronically homeless adults often experiencing mental illness and addiction, working primarily inside encampments with a team. The Social Worker II /Housing Navigator is expected to assist the client in a kind, caring and trauma-informed way to assess, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate actions required to meet the client’s health and human services needs. Social Worker II/Housing Navigator also has additional responsibilities to mentor and train first level social workers/Community Health Workers and perform additional administration.
Our Multidisciplinary Integrated Social/Medical/Mental Health & Housing Outreach Team is the beginning of a regional approach to serving people entrenched in encampments, folding together social services with housing support, disabilities support, medical and mental health testing and treatment in the field, and police assistance to people with multiple minor infractions that limit their access to services.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES include the following as well as other duties that may be assigned:
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Please send cover letter and resume to: Martin Alvarez, Program Director: martin.alvarez@dorothysplace.org