Applying for:

This is a professional position responsible for providing housing case management services to families who are homeless or at risk of homelessness with a focus on families involved in the child welfare system. This position will utilize Housing First approach to prevent homelessness, promote family reunification and secure sustainable housing solutions.

Essential Functions:

• Establishes and maintains positive working relationship with HFC internal and external customers, to include the Homeless Coalition of Polk County, landlords, and other service providers

• Meets monthly and annual contract deliverables

• Screen potential housing clients to determine and document eligibility

• Performs intake, case management, and billing duties for housing clients

• Identify, develop, maintain, and facilitate relationships with landlords and providers of housing resources in the community with a goal of identifying physical housing locations for participants

• Provides assessment, monitoring, planning, linkage and advocacy for the most appropriate services for individuals and families

• Assess individual and family members of their strengths, needs, abilities and preferences to assist in the development of housing goals

• Will maximize the annual funding by maintaining an active case load up to 25 households at any time

• Utilize best practices with participant engagement to meet unique needs of the individuals

• Work from a housing focused, strengths based, trauma informed perspective

• Develop housing stability plan with client, address crisis intervention, potential barriers, housing identification, move-in, self-sufficiency and budget for individuals

• Monitor progress of client and maintain accurate documentation of progress towards goals and services provided

• Monitor participants housing stability and be available to resolve crisis

• Provide referrals and facilitate access to services and community resources as needed

• Conducts home visits as required

• Responsible for collecting all necessary documentation for client files according to established guidelines

• Process requests for rental assistance, utility assistance, application fees and other forms of assistance

• Process, submit, and track the monthly program billing and adjust spending as needed to maintain the established budget set forth in the contract

• Utilizes and inputs data in the housing management information system

• Participate in monthly, annual and audit reporting as needed

• Performs special projects as assigned

Required Qualifications: 

Bachelor’s degree in Social work or related field.  Minimum of two years of experience working with children, teens, young adults and/or families.