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People Inc lists this Part-Time Housing Coordinator opportunity in kingston, New York. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Part-Time Housing Coordinator
Location: Kingston, NY
Schedule: 20 hours per week, afternoons preferred
Pay Rate: $23.07
Summary: The Part-Time Housing Coordinator staff will support the daily operations at the assigned location. She or he provides peer support for each housing participant enrolled in the program. The Housing Coordinator is available to instill hope, support wellness and demonstrate that recovery is real and does happen. Staff model and utilize trauma-informed techniques and tools, help guests set goals and engage in community and social events. The Housing Coordinator position will be a peer (personal lived experience/s with mental health challenges or substance use challenges) who implements PEOPLe, USA's Supportive Housing programs (MRT, OMH, HUD), helping people with histories of mental health challenges to live independent, self-determined lives in the community.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
Provides screenings to potential program participants identified through the local county's Single Point of Access (SPOA) process
Educates potential program participants on who PEOPLe USA is, what the agency stands for, and how the agency's Supported Housing program operates
Provides additional information on OMH, MRT, or HUD Supportive Housing guidelines and general housing
Assists accepted program participants with budgeting, including rental costs, utilities, program subsidies, personal finances, and other related personnel costs
Directly explore with participants housing rental options that suit their financial, environmental, and personal needs
Assists participants in completing rental applications
Assists participants in understanding all leasing contract components
Assists participants in managing the moving process
Assists participants in furnishing rentals
Help participants to continuously budget their money sensibly to maintain their housing and other basic needs
Regularly verify participants' income and budgeted costs to ensure that rental subsidies are up-to-date and accurate
Maintains regular meaningful contact with participants (amount determined by participants), with no less than one (1) face-to-face and two (2) additional indirect contacts per month
Educates participants on useful health & wellness topics, including but not limited to: Peer/Self-Help resources, Recovery from Mental Health Challenges (from a Psychiatric Rehabilitation perspective), Wellness & Whole Health (SAMHSA's Eight Dimensions of Wellness), Community Resources (across all domains of health, e.g.: physical, mental, substance use, socioeconomic determinants of health), Trauma & Healing, Wellness Planning & Prevention (e.g. WRAP), Natural Supports (developing/maintaining)
Helps participants to identify barriers to their recovery journeys or personal wellness, including issues related to access, quality of care, people's rights, lack of basic needs, and stigma & discrimination
Advocates with participants side-by-side to overcome identified barriers, making sure their voices are heard, and their decisions are understood and respected
Builds peer-to-peer connections/relationships based on mutuality (shared lived experiences), empathy, and hope for recovery/wellness (peers-as-proof)
Provides peer support, sharing stories, personal feelings, information, and strategies for living well
Coaches clients to identify & accomplish whole health goals related to the Eight Dimensions of Wellness (emotional, social, physical, environmental, financial, intellectual, occupational, spiritual)
Directly connects people to the services and supports they need through direct bridging/linking (as opposed to referrals only)
Develops and maintains positive working relationships with other provider agencies, and local housing providers (landlords) within the county and its surrounding environs
Documents all meaningful interactions in electronic records software and maintain hard copies in participants' files
Regularly attend SPOA meetings, HUD Continuum of Care meetings, and other related meetings
Consistently support PEOPLe, USA's mission to instill a sense of hope, empowerment, and self-determination in people living with mental illness that fosters recovery and a transition to wellness
Align all behaviors with core values that promote trauma-informed care, customer engagement and satisfaction, mutuality & empathy, and a philosophical commitment that everyone can and will recover
Staff must document their time in Paycor effectively. Staff cannot work over their positions allocated hours without Director approval
Competencies:
Technical Capacity
Communication
Thoroughness
Customer/Client Focus
Collaboration/Teamwork Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Computer Skills
Organization & Time Mgmt.
Mediation
Resiliency & Flexibility
Responsiveness & Calmness
Ethical Conduct
Results Driven
Supervisory Responsibility: This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment: This job operates mostly in community settings, including each program participant's housing (scattered site). The job also operates in a peer-run non-clinical mental health care setting that includes professional office environments. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines.
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Travel: Travel is primarily local during the business day, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected. This position requires up to 75% travel.
Required Education and Experience:
High School degree or equivalency.
Personal lived experience/s with mental illness or substance abuse.
Clean & valid driver's license
Preferred Experience:
Bachelor's degree
Bilingual English/Spanish
Significant demonstrable experience in health & human services
Additional Eligibility Qualifications:
Must work towards or possess the following: New York State Certified Peer Specialist must be obtained within 6 months of hire.
Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP).
All other training assigned to staff must be done in a timely manner.
Worksite address
kingston, NY, 12402, US
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