Supportive Services Specialist

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JR101670

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization
** Position Summary
** Sea Mar Community Health Centers has recently acquired a multifamily apartment building for its Affordable Housing program. This building is located in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle. The Supportive Services Specialist will support this building by working autonomously and collectively as an empowered staff member of Sea Mar’s Affordable Housing program. The role of the Supportive Services Specialist is to conduct an initial screening and provide a comprehensive assessment;

develop care plans based on that assessment; check in with resident about their care plan through discussion and/or counseling, and consult with the interdisciplinary supportive services team on the needs of clients served. The productivity expectation for this position is 15 or more client encounters per week for full-time work and a caseload in excess of 65 low-income, marginalized or otherwise disadvantaged clients who may or may not have been previously homeless.
** Duties and Responsibilities
** As a mission-driven organization, the core values of, and the services offered at Sea Mar are based on the belief that everyone deserves to be respectfully treated in a way that preserves dignity and enhances self-worth. Sea Mar is an advocate for its clients and aims to achieve industry-leading, client-centered, culturally-aware services.

Sea Mar employees serve as an extension of this mission and demonstrate their commitment to an excellent client experience by:
* Understanding and empathizing with client needs
* Surpassing client expectations
* Demonstrating a high level of integrity
* Exhibiting compassion and commitment
* Advocating for social justice
* Taking pride in individual work as well as that of the team
* Continually learning to stay current with industry standards, best practices and technology

As a Sea Mar employee, the individual in this position commits to adherence to these values to their utmost ability and endeavors to strengthen and embody this mission daily.
** Essential Duties and Responsibilities
*** Exemplify excellent customer relations with clients, visitors, and other employees; show courtesy, friendliness, and respect.
* Identify specific problem behaviors and with knowledge of agency and community-based resources propose/recommend interventions that could reduce or eliminate those behaviors.
* Provide brief, consistent, and culturally relevant discussion for client which would include: crisis intervention, mental health concerns, pregnancy and birth options, grief; stress, parenting, coping skills, problem-solving, abuse/neglect; and family violence. Educate the client to make informed decisions regarding personal, child and family health/mental health care and treatment. Brief discussion is defined as talking with the client to assist the client in developing skills to cope with issues that are presented and developing a plan to refer to and address ongoing longer term treatment with appropriate mental health providers.
* Complete a thorough, culturally sensitive, psychosocial assessment which includes but is not limited to: personal history (cultural background, health status, coping strategies, mental health status, substance use, abuse and violence); current family functioning; review of support systems (formal and informal); ability with maintaining housing; and basic physical needs. This assessment is shared with the client and team members to assure that all relevant psychosocial issues are addressed in the care planning.
* Ensure that treatment planning and interventions are client centered, culturally competent and age appropriate. Consider all aspects of the client by respecting their family and their community’s psychosocial, economic and cultural needs, as well as providing care with respect to client confidentiality, safety and self- determination.
* Based on identified client needs, make referrals to appropriate agencies/services or provide information that assists clients with self-referral.
* Assist client in accomplishing tasks necessary to access services such as filling out…