Housing First Coordinator (Stabilization) - Emergency Family Shelter (Bilingual)
Eliot Community Human Services
- Marlborough, MA
- $48,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
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 Emergency Family Shelters. 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 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
- 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.
- 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
- a generous benefits package
- paid training and conferences
- tuition reimbursement
- MBTA pass reimbursement and mileage reimbursement
- opportunities for personal and professional growth
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