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About the Role

Supportive Housing Specialist role focused on helping individuals achieve goals and advance their lives through advocacy, linkage, and coordination of services. Emphasis on enabling recipients to attain and remain in permanent community housing.

Responsibilities

• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of needs and develop an individualized support plan.
• Support individuals through skills and practices including motivational interviewing, suicide prevention, risk screening, trauma-informed care, and person-centered planning.
• Assist residents with identifying and achieving person-centered goals and recovery.
• Monitor consumer wellness and ensure well-coordinated care among all providers.
• Maintain accurate documentation for all services and submit required reports.
• Assist residents with securing safe, affordable, permanent housing.
• Assist residents in negotiating with landlords, vendors, and service providers.
• Assess needs and solicit preferences for residents, make appointments, and inspect housing.
• Purchase supplies and physically help with moving, setting up, and maintaining housing.
• Conduct monthly in-home visits and update support plans every 90 days.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with supervisors, colleagues, and community services.
• Attend county-specific meetings to ensure timely processing of referrals.
• Provide more comprehensive case management services as needed.

Requirements

• High School Diploma with two (2) years of relevant experience or an associate degree in human services.
• Valid NYS Drivers License (as driving is an essential function of this position).

Skills

• Trauma informed care perspective
• Psychiatric rehabilitative approach
• Advocacy, linkage, and coordination of services
• Motivational interviewing
• Suicide prevention
• Risk screening
• Person-centered planning
• Contemporary office equipment, particularly a computer with word processing, database and report generating software
• Communicate effectively with diverse individuals
• Listen, understand, and appreciate the experiences of clients
• Persuade, negotiate, and instruct
• Manage and resolve conflicts
• Provide positive role modeling
• Inspire respect, confidence, and trust in clients and staff
• Respect and maintain appropriate confidentialities
• Effectively encourage clients toward greater independence and self-sufficiency
• Perceive and describe changes in behavior
• Seek, accept, and learn from peer and supervisor feedback
• Organize time effectively
• Plan and implement strategies consistent with client needs and overall organization goals, objectives, and standards.

Location

• Ithaca, NY

Work Type

• Full-time
• Onsite

Experience Level

• 2 years of relevant experience

Education Level

• High School Diploma
• Associate degree in human services

Salary/Compensations

• $17.52 - $22.82 per hour

Benefits

• 3+ weeks of Personal Time Off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Sick Time and Extended Illness Bank
• 9 Paid Holidays and 1 Floating Holiday
• 401(k) with Agency match
• Voluntary Medical/ Dental/ Vision
• Employer Funded Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Tuition Assistance

About the Company

• Lakeview Health Services is a premier partner throughout the Finger Lakes region, providing safe, affordable housing, support, and rehabilitative services to persons with mental illness as well as health care coordination services to individuals with chronic mental and physical health challenges.
• Dedicated to helping individuals identify and achieve personally meaningful and measurable life goals, and to realize their full potential.
• Seeks to create an environment of learning and development that will lead to an engaged, motivated, and high performing team with a devotion and commitment to client service.

Equal Opportunity

• Complies with the legal requirement to take affirmative action and not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
• Will not discharge or otherwise discriminate against applicants or employees who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or that of others, subject to certain limitations.