Job Details
Job Location
HAWC – Houston, TX
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Travel Percentage
Up to 25%
Job Category
Nonprofit – Social Services
Description
Being a Bilingual Case Manager you will coordinate and provide case management by assessing survivors needs, connect clients to appropriate services, and advocate for clients to ensure the provision of comprehensive services which meet the identified needs/goals. The Case Manager will implement services with a trauma-informed, evidence-based, and client-centered approach while assisting clients to working toward self-sufficiency.
Your Schedule:
- Full Time
- Monday – Friday from 9am-6pm
- Work Model: hybrid
- Local Travel:25%
Our Total Compensation Package:
- Starting Salary Range: $27.89 hourly
- Pay schedule bi-monthly
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and Disability Insurance Programs
- Generous Paid time Off- 11 paid holidays per year, 3 personal holidays per year, 15 paid Vacation days per year, Approx. 7 hours per month of accrued Sick days
- 401K the agency matches 125% of employee contributions up to 4% of the annual salary of a full-time employee
- Company paid Life Insurance
- Company paid Long Term Disability
- Employee Assistance Program
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples lives. Working at Houston Area Women’s center gives you a rewarding experience in which our diverse team of employees work together as part of the empowerment of a survivors life and at the same time part of a much larger mission. We are committed to doing the work and challenging each other to be an organization in which everyone is respected and heard. Every day we continue to embed diversity, inclusion, belonging, and equity in everything we do as we provide service to survivors of domestic and sexual violence.
Qualifications
The Requirements We are Seeking:
- Master’s degree in Social Work
- Minimum of ten years’ experience in case management
- Proficient in Microsoft Office specifically Excel and Outlook.
- Fluent in Spanish: able to read, write, and speak fluently.
- You have a valid Texas driver’s license with a good driving record; reliable transportation; ability to travel to off-site locations utilizing personal transportation.
What you Deliver in this role:
- You will provide pro-active Case Management which include but not limited to: Motivational interviewing, crisis intervention, evaluating/assessing clients to determine their needs, connecting clients with services, such as financial assistance, counseling or health care, assisting clients in developing plans for addressing their long-and-short term needs and goals, following up with clients to make sure that they are getting the supportive services that they need by establishing a system of weekly contacts with clients.
- You will conduct initial consultations and economic stability assessments with all non-residential survivors of family violence.
- You will to help break down barriers, Mobile Advocacy may be required. This includes meeting the client in the community at home, work, or other safe places, etc. and accompany clients to appointments as needed.
- You will maintain accurate records, reports, and files.
- You will ensure timely submission of reports in compliance with agency, funder, state, and federal requirements.
- You will work towards constantly improving skills/knowledge related to job duties by seeking appropriate workshops, seminars, and conferences to attend.
- You will assist the Director on maintaining program budget.
- You will evaluate and make recommendations concerning client services and programming.
- Other duties may be assigned.
What Skills and Assets you bring, and more:
- Excellent attention to details
- Demonstration of professional objectivity and appreciation for confidential information
- Ability to follow instructions and to adhere to policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritize tasks to meet individual and team deadlines
- Has a growth mindset and is a good team player
- Strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
When you work here at HAWC you make an impact not just in the lives of the survivors and the people you help, but also make an impact in our own lives and our community. We learn and grow with a purpose where we strive to work for a common cause, which is to end domestic and sexual violence for ALL.