There is an announcement for the Health & Wellness Caseworker vacancy in Oakland, CA, United States.

Job Summary

Its Community Health and Wellness programs ensure that all newly resettled refugees have access to on-going psycho-social support to serve their adjustment needs as well as ensures additional culturally and linguistically sensitive mental health referral support services are available. You will be responsible for the implementation of psycho-social programming serving the newcomer population in the Bay Area. The psycho-social programming is funded through the Alameda County Behavioral Health Care Services Prevention and Early Intervention (PEI) program.

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.
• Likewise, perform intakes, screenings, and service planning to ensure clients’ psychosocial wellbeing needs are met.
• Also, 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.
• Furthermore, 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.
• 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.
• Moreover, 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.
• Also, conduct outreach to existing refugee, immigrant, and asylee community to encourage participation and increase referrals to our programming.

Qualifications for Health & Wellness Caseworker Vacancy

• Associate degree with an emphasis in Social Work, Psychology, sociology, or an equivalent field of study or work experience. Bachelor’s degree desired.
• 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.
• Likewise, cross-cultural awareness and communication skills.
• Experience with psycho-social programming preferred.
• Moreover, success working and communicating effectively in a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience working directly with underserved populations.

IRC Summary

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. The Oakland office provides further psycho-social services to support newcomer population’s wellness, emotional health, and promote the healthy integration of refugees into new communities.

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