SOAR Housing Advocate (Housing Services)

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

• Formal Education and Training
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Personal vehicle with current automobile insurance and valid Maryland driver’s license required

• Experience
• Two years of experience in connecting individuals to essential services including healthcare, mental health, and addiction services
• One year of experience completing intake assessments and developing treatment plans
• Experience working in a health care setting preferred

• Skills
• Knowledge of Baltimore City community resources for addiction, social services and mental health
• Willingness to adopt Harm Reduction and Housing First principles and apply them to work with clients
• Approaches change with a positive, open-minded attitude
• Demonstrates personal integrity and has well-developed interpersonal skills necessary to engage clients and promote positive relationships with other community agencies and providers
• Displays strong attention to detail and notices discrepancies easily
• Able to be flexible and work as part of an interdisciplinary team
• Able to take initiative and problem solve
• Able to work with ill, disabled, emotionally upset, and sometimes hostile clients

Key Agency Responsibilities

• In addition to role responsibilities, every staff member has the following responsibilities as a part of their employment:
• Models and reinforces the core values of dignity, authenticity, hope, justice, passion, and balance
• Actively participates in performance improvement and advocacy activities that support the mission
• Protects clients’ personal health information by maintaining compliance with HIPAA and other relevant health care-related IT security regulations
• Performs other duties on an as-needed basis

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• Why join us?
• Be part of a mission-driven team committed to racial equity, social justice, and community wellness.
• Work in a dynamic, people-first organization that centers compassion, authenticity, and hope.
• Receive training and support to grow in your advocacy and peer work.
• Help shape the future of housing and recovery services in Baltimore.

Read more about the people we serve here

https://www.hchmd.org/who-we-help [https://www.hchmd.org/who-we-help]

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Join us in advancing health equity and delivering exceptional care to our community’s most underserved populations. Apply today to be a part of something bigger.

Health Care for the Homeless is an equal opportunity employer.

Notice to Applicants Health Care for the Homeless participates in E-Verify. All newly hired employees are required to complete the I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification form and provide documentation proving their identity and legal authorization to work in the United States.

We use the E-Verify system to confirm employment eligibility in accordance with federal law.