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Responsibilities for Health & Wellness Caseworker Vacancy 

• Provide culturally sensitive case management for individuals who are socially isolated, have previous exposure to trauma, and/or are at risk of mental illness.
• Additionally, 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.
• Conduct Bridge-to-Safety screenings to assess for domestic and sexual violence; provide appropriate referrals to community mental health and/or other service providers.
• Furthermore, 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate degree with an emphasis in Social Work, Psychology, sociology, or an equivalent field of study or work experience. Bachelor’s degree desired.
• Additionally, 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.
• Also, 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.
• Ability to contribute both independently and as a key team member.
• Organized with excellent reporting skills.
• Furthermore, self- starter with excellent analytical skills combined with the proven ability to multi-task, prioritize duties, and manage time effectively.

Work Environment

• Responsibilities split between field-based and office environment.
• Additionally, travel to field site operation often. Access to reliable and insured transportation required.

Key Working Relationships

Position Reports to Health and Wellness ManagerIndirect Reporting: Director Other Internal and/or external contacts: Internal: Direct service staff including MG, ICM, AT, and R&P staff, Health and Wellness staff at other IRC sites. External: Also, other refugee resettlement agencies, ethnic Community- Based Organizations, Community leaders, and other stakeholders.