What are the responsibilities and job description for the Outreach Specialist - South Seattle position at Evergreen Treatment Services?
Job Type
Full-time
Description
Work at Evergreen Treatment Services and make a difference in our community!
- ETS has been working to transform the lives of individuals and their communities through innovative and effective addiction and social services in Western Washington for over 50 years. Learn more about our mission and values.
- Change begins within. We strive to foster and sustain a diverse and inclusive community within our organization. Find out how we are working to achieve racial equity, health equity, and community justice.
- Our Clinic Services and REACH teams bring critical professional expertise and heartfelt compassion to the work they do every day to serve our most vulnerable community members. Check out the compelling stories told by our patients, clients, and staff members that provide more information and a clear picture regarding our organization's essential work.
REACH Mission and Values
The REACH Program works with individuals experiencing homelessness and behavioral health conditions to help them achieve stability and improved quality of life. The REACH mission is to foster community health and safety through outreach, relationship, healing interventions and systems advocacy for people who use drugs.? REACH provides outreach-based-care coordination, multidisciplinary clinical services, and supports to access and maintain housing.? All services are based in principles of harm reduction that offer respect and dignity to individuals moving through stages of change in their lives.
REACH incorporates a racial equity lens that includes naming the impact and actively dismantling systems of oppression rooted in White Supremacy, while addressing the root causes perpetuating historical trauma and immense suffering in individuals' lives.? We are committed to building a robust behavioral health response that diverts people away from jail by rebuilding community and providing services to ensure those presently marginalized aren't just surviving, but able to thrive.
REACH offers an array of services ranging from survival support provided where folks are living outside to linkages to essential resources such as housing, assistance to resolve legal issues, health care, entitlements and easily accessible treatment for substance use disorders and mental health conditions.
The REACH team is passionate about creating a hospitable and welcoming environment for all people while providing quality services on an individually tailored basis to our clientele. REACH values diversity of lived experience, is committed to racial equity and social justice, and appreciates hard work, creativity, and a good sense of humor. People who have been impacted by the criminal legal system are encouraged to apply.
This dynamic position plays an important role in helping ETS accomplish our mission!
The Outreach Team focuses on engaging clients living on streets and encampments with low barrier resource navigation, maintaining engagement with case management services, and establishing partnerships with other providers and organizations to coordinate care. The REACH Outreach Team conducts assessments and provides referrals to services such as shelter, case management, behavioral and physical healthcare, substance use harm reduction resources and education, and housing, if able. REACH services are person-centered, strengths-based, trauma-informed, culturally relevant, and respectfully provided from a harm reduction perspective to promote client autonomy and dignity in how they access resources and services.
The South Outreach Specialist will also be responsible for supporting partnerships with the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA), Seattle of City Unified Care Team, community-based organizations, and neighborhood businesses. The South Outreach Specialist will work with city and service partners to create a coordinated street outreach strategy in their geographical area and district in Seattle to demonstrate an effective, trauma-informed response to people living unsheltered. The South Outreach Specialist will also partner with REACH program staff to support clients enrolled in REACH intensive case management services.
The South Outreach Specialist will be based in District 2 region of Seattle working with the South Outreach Team. This position will work closely with the City of Seattle UCT to coordinate shelter referrals at eligible sites and partners in neighborhoods such as Mt Baker, Columbia City, and Rainier Beach.
Job Functions (may include) :
Provide outreach to folks living outside in Seattle D5 to conduct health and needs assessments and provide recommendations for services and resource distribution
Benefits Assistance
Additional duties as assigned.
Requirements
Qualification Requirements
Education
Experience
Knowledge Requirements
Language Skills
Physical Conditions and Requirements :
The employee may be exposed to illicit drug residues and fumes or other bio-hazardous materials when carrying out job functions. There is also potential for exposure to bloodborne pathogens. ?ETS will provide employees with appropriate training to limit the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. Policies and procedures are in place addressing each item specifically.
The employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear; frequently required to stand, walk, and kneel; occasionally to climb balance, or stoop; rarely to crouch or crawl.
The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 30 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, color, and peripheral vision and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is moderate.
Equipment Used
Inclusivity and Reasonable Accommodation :
Evergreen Treatment Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
ETS will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with a disability so that they can perform the essential functions of a job unless doing so causes a direct threat to these individuals or others in the workplace and the threat cannot be eliminated by reasonable accommodation, or if the accommodation?creates an undue hardship for ETS. We also seek to provide reasonable accommodation for the interview process.
Salary Description
72,000.00-74,000.00
