Street Outreach Specialist - Full Time

Job Details

Level

Experienced

Job Location

Home Sweet Home Ministries - Bloomington, IL

Position Type

Full Time

Salary Range

22.51 - $22.51 Hourly

Job Shift

Job Category

Nonprofit - Social Services

Description

For over a century, Home Sweet Home Ministries has stood as a pillar of the community and a beacon of Christ's love for the hungry, homeless, and hopeless here in Central Illinois. It is the mission of every member of our staff and our volunteers to demonstrate Christ's love through innovative approaches that instill hope, restore lives, and build community. We offer supportive services to those in need - providing shelter, food, case management, as well as programs including Bridge of Hope, Rapid Rehousing, and our Bread for Life Co-Op. Now you, too, can help build upon our traditions and contribute your passion for caring for others and your desire to be a guiding light for Christ's love to those caught in the storm by joining our dedicated team. Home Sweet Home Ministries offers employment opportunities for those with a desire to be part of a community committed to helping others.

The Street Outreach Specialist (SOS) is a day shift role who works directly with individuals in the community experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The SOS provides case management, education, harm reduction, and advocacy to help clients connect with community resources, including recovery services, emergency shelter, and permanent housing. Additionally, this position ministers to clients' spiritual needs, provides for their basic physical needs, and documents their homelessness to help them access benefits.

How You'll Help Fulfill the HSHM Mission

• Drives a company vehicle to locations not meant for human habitation and / or tent encampments with an Outreach Team member to provide mobile case management that identifies barriers and seeks to meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of those experiencing unsheltered homelessness through a client-centered approach.
• Builds relationships with people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness by talking with them, praying for them, and encouraging them to engage in services.
• Conduct screenings and assessments to aid client referrals and coordination with agency resources
• Provide services for people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness at The Junction Community Center. Services include preparing clients to be document ready, connecting clients to emergency assistance (food, clothing, transportation, medical care, etc.), and connecting them to other services as appropriate.
• Coordinate and assist in the training, direction, and supervision of interns and outreach volunteers
• Partner and collaborate with other agencies and nonprofits to better serve and advocate for clients.
• Record client information, progress notes, case plan, and services rendered into the client services database. Record information necessary for outcome tracking.
• Document clients who are classified as homeless by HUD in the Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) for Coordinated entry, with all supporting documentation.
• Develop knowledge base of and partnerships with publicly supported programs and guidelines offered by local, state, and federal agencies.
• Work with Director of Community Outreach to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of programs and special projects.
• Represents Home Sweet Home Ministries in a positive light with all donors, recipients, clients, volunteers, and the general public.

Qualifications

Qualifications :

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 is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit, stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, or crouch. The employee must lift and / or move up to 25 pounds frequently in the course of a work day. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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