Applications have opened for the Health & Wellness Caseworker Vacancy at IRC in the USA. Interested candidates can apply for the position now.

Duties

• Provide culturally sensitive case management for individuals who are socially isolated, have previous exposure to trauma, and/or are at risk of mental illness.
• Perform intakes, screenings, and service planning to ensure clients’ psychosocial wellbeing needs are met.
• Additionally, work with staff to identify, screen, and support with navigating barriers to care for clients determined to have a high probability of physical and emotional stress.
• Also, provide time-limited case management services to high-needs clients.
• Likewise, conduct Bridge-to-Safety screenings to assess for domestic and sexual violence; provide appropriate referrals to community mental health and/or other service providers.
• Also, ensure accurate tracking and data entry of client notes, assessments, RHS-15 screening, and referrals, in accordance with quality assurance standards of the IRC, and ACBHCS.
• Additionally, ensure clients with identified mental health risks or interest in specialty mental health care have linkage and referrals to culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health care partners.

Qualifications

• Associate degree with an emphasis in Social Work, Psychology, sociology, or an equivalent field of study or work experience. Bachelor’s degree.
• Also, 2+ years of relevant work experience. A significant portion of this experience would include responsibilities in community-based services, social services, education, capacity building, and/or humanitarian relief.
• Likewise, the understanding of community integration, resettlement and migration trauma.
• Cross-cultural awareness and communication skills.
• Experience with psycho-social programming preferred.
• Similarly, success working and communicating effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience working directly with underserved populations.
• Also, the ability to contribute both independently and as a key team member.
• Furthermore, organized with excellent reporting skills.

About IRC

The IRC in Northern California was established in 1975 in response to the needs of the growing refugee population. Over the past 40 years the IRC has resettled nearly 60,000 clients in Northern California. Originally focused on reception and placement the IRC in Oakland, one of four offices in Northern California, provides a range of services including resettlement and economic empowerment services, immigration, community gardening, and case management for victims of trafficking.

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