PILOTS Caseworker - Danbury

PILOTS Caseworker - Danbury

CHD is seeking an Outreach Caseworker to join our growing Planning and Implementing Housing Options for Long-term Success (PILOTS) team in Danbury, CT. Through this program, the Outreach Caseworker PILOTS staff will use a counseling approach that uses both motivational interviewing and harm-reduction. As a PILOTS Support Specialist, you will assist program participants to live independently in the community by addressing their mental and physical health, substance use, employment and housing needs.

PILOT's staff use a counseling approach that uses both motivational interviewing and harm-reduction. You will help the participants with:

• Securing housing, move-in, relocations, interventions in eviction processes, rent arrears and housing stability.
• Assist participants with budgeting/banking
• Help participants with obtaining and maintaining entitlements.
• Provide crisis intervention
• Provide vocations assistance; resume writing, interview preparations, and job search assistance.

The Support Specialist should actively support the philosophy of the agency and maintain a high level of commitment to program participants and staff. Personality traits should include:

• Ethical, moral and professional integrity
• Empathetic and understanding to the people we serve
• Capable to efficiently manage the day to day workload
• Philosophical commitment to the concept of human potential
• Supportive and goal orientated
• Open, direct interpersonal style; works well as a team member
• Maintain professional boundaries at all times

Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required
• Experience working with psychiatric disorders or co-occurring population preferred
• Must be comfortable engaging clients in the community for majority of the position
• Field visits within the surrounding communities to see clients
• Registered & insured vehicle and approved driving record check
• Approved criminal background check

Schedule:

1st shift, 8:30am-4:30pm. Days on:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. Days off:
Saturday and Sunday. Pay rate is $20.00/hourly, along with a phenomenal benefit package that includes Dental, Health and Life insurance. Paid time off, earned vacation time and paid holidays, and mileage reimbursement just to name a few.

At Center for Human Development (CHD), Care Finds a Way:
The Center for Human Development (CHD) provides a broad range of high quality, community-oriented human services dedicated to promoting, enhancing, and protecting the dignity and welfare of people in need. At CHD we are celebrating differences, inclusion is not just a policy- it is a daily practice. Multicultural, multilingual, and fluent in sign language, CHD is a reflection of those we serve.

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