Social Worker, Community Health

Job Details

Job Location:

NYC
- Bronx - 233 - Bronx, NY 10466

Position Type:
Full Time

Salary Range: $66,300.00 - $66,300.00 Salary

Community Housing Innovations (CHI) is a not-for-profit housing and human services organization that aims to support social and economic independence. Our vision is to end generational poverty and foster upward mobility by ensuring that all families and individuals live in quality housing, have a home of their own, and a job to support them. We believe quality, affordable housing is the foundation for prosperity, personal fulfillment, and success.

• Generous Paid time off
• Personal and Sick Days
• Health insurance and health reimbursement account
• Dentaland vision plans
• Flexible spending account
• AFLAC supplemental insurance
• Dependent Care Spending Account
• Commuter Transit and Parking Account
• Working Advantage
  - Employee Perks
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Life insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Monthly trainings and career development plans

The Social Worker is part of a human service team that develops and executes service and care plans for residents to provide a supportive and empowering environment that fosters stabilization, independence and self-reliance, and skills development. The Social Worker plays a key role in assessing resident needs, providing direct services, bridging residents to external service providers, and promoting healthy behaviors and practices amongst residents.

Pay: $66,300.00 annual salary.

FSLA:
Exempt- not eligible for overtime.

Schedule:

Monday-Friday 8am-4pm

Location:

East Chest ester Bronx, NY

These duties are essential and specific to the successful implementation of this position.

• Ensure residents receive quality and appropriate services per organizational principles and program requirements.
• Conduct comprehensive biopsychosocial assessment to identify immediate and long term needs in healthcare, food and nutrition, childcare and youth education, employment and vocation, immigration and citizenship status, English language proficiency, trauma care and recovery, and other social need as disclosed by residents.
• Coordinate with Case Managers to design service and care plans that correspond to biopsychosocial assessments and address human, health, education and employment, recovery and stability needs.
• Coordinate workshops and activities that enhance self-care and healthy habits, cultural and social adjustment, recovery and stabilization, and English language acquisition.
• Collaborate with external providers and organizations to assist residents with social and cultural adaptation, address social and human service needs, access preventive and remedial healthcare, and access to mental health services including trauma recovery and therapeutic counseling.
• Meet with residents in assigned caseload at least once a week to assess progress with service and care plans. Modify plans as needed.
• Coordinate with Case Managers to conduct weekly room inspections to ensure healthy hygiene and housekeeping practices.
• Coordinate with Case Managers on discharge plans to ensure needed service linkages and referrals to community-based organizations are in place.

• Develop and facilitate workshops and activities with external service providers; monitor resident engagement and assess impact of activities and workshops to individual residents and the general resident population.
• Provide crisis intervention and de-escalation interventions as needed to ensure the safety of residents, staff, and visitors in the building. Follow-up with residents post Priority 1 and 2 incidents and bridge residents to services as needed.

• Document interactions and communications…