Job Description

Description

Location; North shore region.

Eliot’s Homeless Services Division is seeking creative/strengths-based Housing First Coordinator for our model of care entitled: Tenancy Preservation Program (TPP/EDI). Our TP program provides clinical consultation to the court in eviction cases that are entitled to “reasonable accommodations” due to the presence of a documented mental health or physical disability. Clinicians assist the Housing Court, including judges, mediators, and social service providers, to maintain stable housing for tenants by helping with referrals for treatment and support in order to resolve tenancy issues and prevent eviction. Eliot’s TPP/EDI staff will have the capacity to assist with tenants facing financial risk of eviction, regardless of disability, may also provide consultation to cases where an eviction is imminent and additional community support services are needed.

Successful candidates will have unwavering empathy, as well as an open mind in terms of pathways to recovery/harm reduction when collaboratively working with people experiencing homelessness, medical complexity, and/or untreated behavioral health concerns (e.g. PTSD).  Housing Coordinators will identify and address barriers to obtaining and maintaining long term sustainable housing utilizing a housing first approach within this cutting-edge multidisciplinary team model (e.g. specialized treatment modalities to address post-traumatic stress, Recovery Coaching, in the field Psychiatry/MAT).  Working knowledge of area resources/providers is a plus.  

Eliot is a large human service organization that offers competitive salaries, generous benefits package, paid training and conferences, tuition reimbursement, MBTA pass reimbursement, and various opportunities for personal and professional growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure that consumers are treated with dignity and respect in accordance with ECHS’ Human Rights Policy. 
• Provide initial assessment of individuals referred by the Housing Court, Legal Services, the Department of Mental Health, or another authorized referral source.
• Create individual case management/clinical plan in collaboration with the person served; identifying root cause of current housing instability, coordinate treatment action steps and measurable goals, interventions, and outcomes to prevent homelessness and stabilize current housing situation if possible.
• Provide linkages across agencies through intensive clinical assessment and identification of consumer needs with the goal of preventing homelessness, either through stabilization of the current tenancy or through securing alternative housing.
• Maintain a thorough, current knowledge of local public and private resources including entitlement/benefit programs, housing, residential, and other community services.  Maintain effective working relationships with collaborative resources.
• Possess a working knowledge of Massachusetts Housing Law, Tenant and Landlord       rights and responsibilities, including the eviction process
• Work collaboratively with Court appointed Housing Specialists to resolve disputes between Tenants/Landlord referred to the Housing Court. Assist in the de-escalation and problem solving between both parties as well as identification of solutions to current tenancy issues.
• Coordinate collection of data required by grant/funding source requirements, complete report requests in accordance with contract requirements and keep material in order and up to date.
• Coordinate efforts with the Housing Court and the agency to ensure the effective use of resources.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Rehab Counseling, Psychology, or related discipline or 2 years professional experience working with the homeless adult population is required. 
• A Master’s degree in the Healing Arts or Education is strongly preferred. 
• Working knowledge and/or experience with evaluating eligibility criteria based on disabling condition(s), reasonable accommodation options through Housing Court systems, dispute mediation, and housing and entitlement resources is required.  
• Ability to assess client support systems, develop comprehensive service plans with maximum client input, assess client ability to transition to a supportive Housing First Model, and provide ongoing support services.

SCHEDULE: MONDAY - FRIDAY, 9AM - 5PM.

WORK SERVICE AREA IS LOWEL, LAWRENCE, SALEM AND MORE OTHER TOWN!

BACHELORS;  $48,000 MASTERS DEGREE; $50,000

Eliot is committed to identifying and dismantling barriers that prevent people with marginalized racial identities from actualizing their full employment potential, assuming leadership roles, or from fully engaging at all levels in the workplace.

*ELIOT MANDATES COVID-19 VACCINATIONS FOR EMPLOYEES, PLEASE DISCUSS THE REQUIREMENTS WITH THE HIRING MANAGER DURING THE INTERVIEW PROCESS.

Qualifications

Skills

PREFERRED

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Expert

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SKILLS

Expert

EXPERIENCE WITH POPULATION

Expert

Education

PREFERRED

Bachelors or better in Social Work.

Licenses & Certifications

REQUIRED

MA DRIVER'S LICENSE

Company Description

Eliot provides an integrated and comprehensive network of community-based services to more than 50,000 individuals and families throughout Massachusetts. Eliot has been delivering state of the art, evidence-based programming for more than fifty years. Using a person-centered, family-driven approach, we believe strongly in partnering with the communities we serve. Our programs collaborate with one another, utilizing the expertise within the agency to provide the highest standard of quality services to our clients, their families, to the community, and to our funding sources. This commitment to collaboration fuels our strategy to employ a consumer centered approach to service delivery to meet the individual needs of our clients. Our approach fuses community resources, funding resources and our vast array of services to ensure that the high quality programs bring hope to those we serve. Our continuum of services includes twenty-four hour psychiatric emergency services and crisis stabilization, individual, group, and family outpatient counseling, addiction services, in-home therapy, therapeutic mentoring, and early intervention services for children, and community outreach and case management to individuals with mental illness. We oversee residential programs for young children and adolescents in the custody of the Department of Children and Families, residential treatment programs for youth mandated by the Department of Youth Services, and residential, day, social and vocational programs for adults with mental illness, brain injury and developmental disabilities. Eliot also provides outreach, community support and case management to homeless individuals throughout the Commonwealth. Eliot is funded and serves individuals referred by Managed Medicaid Organizations, Commercial Insurers, the Massachusetts Departments of Children and Families, Developmental Disabilities, Public Health, Mental Health, Youth Services, and the Massachusetts Rehabilitation Commission.