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Job Type
Full-time
Description
Days Off : Fri / Sat / Sun OR Sat / Sun / Mon
Shift : Day
Insurance Benefits : Medical (no premiums / payroll deductions for employee coverage), Dental, Life, Long-term Disability
Other Benefits : Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan
About DESC :
DESC (Downtown Emergency Service Center) is a nonprofit organization working to help people with the complex needs of homelessness, substance use disorders, and serious mental illness achieve their highest potential for health and well-being through comprehensive services, treatment, and housing.
Our vision is a community where no person is abandoned, ignored, or experiencing homelessness.
As the region's leading provider of services to multiply disabled adults who have experienced chronic homelessness, DESC serves almost 2,000 people each day.
Our integrated service model is designed to help people secure and maintain appropriate, safe and affordable housing. DESC is recognized nationally and regionally as an innovator in developing solutions to homelessness.
We are looking for energized and passionate Residential Counselors to manage basic day-to-day operations at our Permanent Supportive Housing Projects.
Residential Counselors assist the individuals living in our supportive housing with their daily needs, with special emphasis on challenges related to severe and persistent mental illness and substance use disorders.
JOB DEFINITION :
Homeless Outreach Stabilization and Transition (HOST) is a multi-disciplinary team serving homeless adults experiencing severe and persistent mental illness and co-occurring disorders.
HOST prioritizes services to those who are highly vulnerable, lack service connections or other support, and are unwilling or unable to engage in traditional service models.
The HOST team works throughout Seattle and parts of King County to provide critical survival services and engagement with the ultimate goal of addressing acute mental and physical health needs, increasing stability, obtaining housing, and transitioning to long-term services.
The HOST Medial Assistant (MA) coordinates and evaluates client medical needs under the supervision of the RN Supervisor.
This position functions as part of the larger HOST team to serve clients struggling to meet their basic needs, navigate the healthcare system, and engage in traditional healthcare settings.
Services will be provided in clinic, on the streets, in shelters and other service centers as assigned. Interested individuals should possess a high degree of coordination and collaboration skills, interest in social justice, advocacy, and health integration.
MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :
Case Management & Social Support :
consult and collaborate with community providers to ensure continuity of care.
Medication, Medical Services, and Clinical Skills :
Ensure that client spaces and clinical spaces are clean, stocked, and appropriate medical equipment is in working order.
Other duties & responsibilities :
participate in quality assurance reviews when assigned.
Requirements
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS :
PREFERED QUALIFICATIONS :
Experience in community health, behavioral health, case management, and / or resource referral.
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.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will be required to sit, communicate with other employees, required to lift and carry items weighing up to 40 pounds and to operate computer hardware systems.
Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER :
DESC is committed to diversity in the workplace, and promotes equal employment opportunities for all staff members and applicants.
The Agency will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, creed, color, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, caste, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental or physical disability in any employment practice, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification.
Minorities and veterans are encouraged to apply.
Salary Description
Last updated : 2024-06-18
Full Time
Social & Legal Services
$41k-49k (estimate)
06/20/2024
06/21/2024
desc.org
SEATTLE, WA
200 - 500
1979
Private
CLARK KIMERER
<$5M
Social & Legal Services