JOB TITLE: Service Coordinator

LOCATION: Baltimore, MD

REPORTS TO: Lead Service Coordinator

COMPENSATION: $20 -$22

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Service Coordinator is primarily responsible for providing continuous coordination of services for victims seeking services with the HRM. This position is responsible for welcoming and orienting new residents to the program, providing crisis intervention and safety planning, developing an intervention strategy, support system, and connection to programs. Offsite visits are part of the job. This position is also responsible for contact center coverage on the 24 hour hotline. Participants in House of Ruth Maryland programs are all victims of Intimate Partner Violence and have experienced complex traumatic events that shape how they interact with the people around them. The Service Coordinator must have a firm understanding of trauma, the effects of trauma, engaging traumatized people, and must be comfortable working in a Voluntary Services program model.

This position is based at the Argonne Drive campus in Baltimore City, with approximately 30% of the time spent in travel around Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Prince George's County and Montgomery County.

Standard Schedule: Standard hours for this position are Monday - Friday, starting between 8:00am-10:00am and finishing between 4:00pm-6:00pm. Flexibility to provide off schedule hours as needed to attend to critical work activities (home inspections, meeting with participants with schedule conflicts, etc.) is expected up to 10% of the time. This position is based on site in HRM's Administration Building location in Baltimore City, Maryland. Local travel around the Baltimore Metropolitan area is expected and encompasses up to 50% of the position.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive and culturally relevant coordination of services for a caseload of approximately 15-20 participants. Participants are referred from the HRM 24 hour Hotline, other HRM departments, and self-referral through walk -in.
• Work with participants to make introductory contact within 24 hours of receiving case assignments, provide a thorough assessment of needs, create a comprehensive and culturally appropriate service plan with timeline for completion, and coordinate with internal and external providers of services.
• Assess safety needs, make recommendations for action to improve or maintain safety.
• Gather and synthesize information on participant from agency sources and from significant recent and current community support systems.
• Work with participants to clearly identifying support people in the participant's life and how they might contribute to the participant achieving goals.
• Guide and support participants to increase self-sufficiency skills, safety, education on domestic violence, and problem-solving in group and one-on-one settings. Educate participants on American processes and systems including teaching self-advocacy skills and advocating on behalf of participants when necessary to achieve participant goals.
• Maintain paper and electronic case files in keeping with program standards.
• Assist program management in compiling necessary statistical data and narrative for grant reports and applications.
• Assess participant's mental health and substance abuse needs, make recommendations for further treatment and coordinate a plan for addressing those needs that respects the cultural beliefs of participants.
• Coordinate participant's use of agency and community services to provide comprehensive and unduplicated services that maximize participant success, including organizing team meetings as necessary.
• Arrange for interpretation and translation services as necessary.
• Visit participants in home environments that have been determined to be safe.
• Participate in Service Coordination Team meetings and make recommendations concerning ind vidual participant's eligibility for financial assistance and expected termination date from the program.
• Participate in Team meetings to discuss outreach and services in the Latino community. Assist with coverage of the community walk in site.
• Assist participants in planning for exit from program, including connecting participants with other agency services and outside local resources.
• Provide admissions screening for participants seeking to enter HRM Residential programs and make recommendations for admissions decisions, including placement assistance for Risk One victims who may require emergency shelter.
• Provide one on one counseling for participants in crisis and to help participants resolve conflict.
• Distribute material goods in accordance with program procedure such as clothing, bus tokens, and personal hygiene supplies.
• Provide relief and back-up coverage in emergency and urgent situations if required.
• Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Authority:

• Distribute material goods to program participants.
• Create service plans with participants. Reviews and adjusts plans as relevant.
• Make offsite visits, and visits to agency providers and landlords.
• Distribute participant material and financial stipends in accordance with budget and individual participant plan that has been approved by Program management.
• Recommend participants for admission to HRM programs, including Emergency Shelter or 3 day emergency hotel placements pending space.
• Represent the agency with area service providers and landlords.

Measures of Success and/or Accountability:

• Meet program quality and service targets; including caseload performance standards, and deadlines for data entry efforts and reports.
• Individual Service Plans are completed within 24 hours and service plans within 72 hours of program referral.
• Participants feel welcomed and meet as scheduled and are well-educated on all available services.
• Participants receive services that are culturally appropriate and sensitive.
• Material goods and financial assistance are disbursed to participants as outlined and have appropriate documentation to justify expenditures.
• Follow-up visits are conducted in accordance to program standards and documented accordingly.
• Participant records are documented clearly, concisely, and in keeping with agency accepted professional standards.

Experience/Requirements:

Two years of paid or volunteer experience providing counseling, case management, or v