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About Your Team
Your team works with families with children in the program to provide necessary structure and housing stability needed to help them grow, thrive, and succeed after leaving our programs. The Support Housing Program is a highly effective strategy that combines housing security with intensive coordinated services proven to help program participants transition out of housing insecurity and stay together.
What You’ll Be Doing
You will be working alongside the Director of Residential Services to assure program compliance and training of current and new staff. You will oversee the Housing Stabilization Program, specifically, to assure compliance with the program requirements.
Your Main Priorities
1. Develop referral and intake packets for program clients.
2. Ensure all appropriate notifications, incident reports, logs, and data entry are completed as necessary and as required by state and agency policies and procedures.
3. Manage program’s data collection, case management, and networking efforts with partnering agencies.
4. Work with programs within the agency as well as community agencies and participate in activities with Rhode Island Housing as appropriate.
5. Coordinate referral process, waiting list, resident intakes, and coordinate with Coordinated Entry, Newport Housing Authority, and Trinity Management.
6. Develop assessment needs and service planning at intake and monthly and quarterly reviews to assess progress of self-sufficiency plan and permanent housing plans.
7. Responsible for the overall support of the residents, i.e., safe housing and community.
8. Respond to residents and their family/caretakers with empathy, sensitivity, and respect while maintaining trauma-sensitive language and approaches; understand the short- and long-term impacts of trauma and neglect.
9. Supervise the interactions and activities of residents when appropriate, ensuring active engagement in day-to-day structured and unstructured activities, psycho-educational groups, resident house meetings, and life skill development and maintenance.
10. Implement both agency and individualized behavior management practices utilizing appropriate trauma-sensitive techniques to monitor, assess, and document situations and client status.
11. Meet all requirements of daily tasks of household management including cleanliness and safety, monitoring clients and their daily activities, minimizing safety and risk concerns.
12. Maintain positive, professional interactions with program contacts and within the community, i.e., parents, law enforcement, DCYF, schools, etc.
Who You Are
Requirements, Skills & Abilities:
1. Bachelor’s degree in social work, criminal justice, or related field required.
2. Minimum 1 year experience with direct care experience required.
3. Previous work experience with housing strongly preferred.
4. Minimum 1 year of administrative or supervisory experience preferred.
5. Bilingual in Spanish preferred.
6. Strong organizational, critical thinking, and time-management skills.
7. Basic computer skills required; knowledge of Microsoft Office 365.
8. Ability to communicate and effectively interact with a diverse population.
9. Collaboration and teamwork.
10. Must have a valid driver’s license, proof of auto insurance, and car registration.
11. Must authorize Child & Family to complete a motor vehicle records check.
12. The ideal candidate will be required to meet all background checks and medical clearances required for the position.
Physical Requirements
This position requires time sitting, standing, walking, driving, carrying, and lifting up to 25lbs. This role also requires operating desktop, laptop, and/or cell phone, and communicating with colleagues.
Total Rewards
* Paid time off: 12 holidays, 1 personal day, up to 4 weeks’ vacation, up to 12 sick and safe leave days.
* Blue Cross Blue Shield, Delta Dental, VSP Vision Care – including coverage for domestic partners, spouses, and/or dependents.
* 100% company-paid health reimbursement arrangements (HRA) through London Health.
* Health and dependent care flexible spending accounts (FSA) through London Health.
* Up to 2.5% company match and profit-sharing 401K contributions after 1 year of service.
* 100% company-paid Cigna life, accidental death & dismemberment, and long-term disability insurance.
* Coastline EAP employee assistance program for staff, family, and friends.
* $2,000 employee referral bonus and $500 foster parent referral bonus.
* $1,200 annual tuition assistance; Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility.
* Clinical supervision of students and those working towards licensure.
* Shift differentials (overnight).
* Discounts: Sandpipers Early Learning Center (agency childcare), Verizon Wireless, Nationwide pet insurance, Wishbone pet insurance, YMCA, BJ’s, Jeka Wellness Center, and Great Work Perks.
Child & Family will not discriminate against any individual on the basis of age, gender, sexual orientation, color, race, creed, national origin, ancestry, religious persuasion, marital status, political belief, pregnancy, military status, veteran status, physical or mental disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodations, genetic predisposition or genetic carrier status, or any other protected category under local, state, or federal law, nor will anyone receive special treatment for those reasons, except for reasonable accommodation as required by law. It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors.
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities, and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
Affirmative Action
Child & Family strives to achieve a workforce that includes representation of qualified affirmative action group members in proportion to the qualified and available target group workforce in the community that we serve.
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services
In order to provide equitable service delivery and go above and beyond equal opportunity requirements, our organization is committed to ensuring that all staff are able to perform the following cultural competencies:
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate and effectively interact with people across cultures, ranges of ability, genders, ethnicities, and races.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the history of discrimination in America, particularly as it relates to race and racism, and how this history has led to disparities experienced by marginalized communities such as BIPOC, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ communities and others.
• Demonstrate the ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services.
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