Social Worker, Community Health

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Full Time Professional Asheville, NC, US

Salary Range: $49,471.00 To $86,890.00 Annually

Hybrid remote work schedule: 3 days in office/field and 2 days remote from home

Base office in Asheville

Position Status:
Full-Time

FLSA Status:
Non-Exempt

Pisgah Legal Services (PLS) is a community-based non-profit legal aid agency governed by a local Board of Directors. Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western North Carolina (WNC), Pisgah Legal Services provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in WNC. The organization currently has offices in Asheville, Brevard, Burnsville, Franklin, Hendersonville, Highlands-Cashiers, Marshall, Morganton, Newland, Rutherfordton, Spruce Pine, and Waynesville.

With over 100 dedicated staff, including over 30 attorneys plus program staff, and an active group of 300 volunteer attorneys, the program provides free services to nearly 20,000 people per year to meet their basic needs, primarily in the poverty law areas of housing, public benefits, domestic violence prevention, health care, immigration, and consumer law.

PLS seeks a full-time Social Worker for the Homelessness Prevention Program to focus on assisting people experiencing Housing Instability and recovery from Hurricane Helene. The position will be based in our Asheville office and will serve clients in all 18 counties of Western North Carolina, with a primary focus on the following counties:
Buncombe, Henderson, Rutherford, and Transylvania. This position will partner with attorneys and other staff to help support clients connect with resources to address social determinants of health related to housing, income and disaster recovery. The Social Worker will provide case management to support Medicaid eligible clients in meeting interpersonal violence, housing and other health-related stability goals.

• Develop relationships with each client based in respect and compassion.
• Utilize an empowerment and advocacy approach to promote and protect their clients’ right to self- determination.
• Provide case management services to Pisgah Legal Servicesclients.
• Support clients to make their own decisions and life plans.
• Work within a Trauma Informed Care framework, recognizing that many of their client’s behaviors and responses may be directly related to traumatic experiences.
• Have a deep understanding of the causes and impacts of poverty.
• Understand and apply approaches within the social determinants of health framework.
• Work to understand the discrimination and oppression that impacts their clients, based on race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, immigration status, and other factors, and adapt their work accordingly.

The social worker should have a passion for promoting justice and overcoming barriers facing low-income people, be a creative and zealous staff member and a team-player and demonstrate a commitment to achieving lasting results for clients and low-income communities.

• Commitment to PLS’ mission, values and vision.
• Document all work in Legal Server case management.
• Build relationships with clients to support and meet immediate needs.
• Connect clients with appropriate services to address safety, health, housing, transportation, employment, food, education, substance use & family care needs.
• Explore options to meet needs when necessary services do not exist in a community.
• Organize and conduct community engagement.
• Develop and maintain community relationships with other non-profit agencies, government officials, government employees, community leaders and others.
• Travel within our service area and also to meetings or conferences in other parts of NC.
• Adhere to program priorities and case handling policies, procedures and standards of practice, as well as the highest professional and ethical standards.
• Work with volunteers, including volunteer attorneys and social workstudents.
• Assist with fundraising in coordination with PLS Development Team.
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