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About the Organization
The nation’s oldest community development corporation with a 53-year track record of serving Brooklyn families, Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (Restoration) seeks a qualified Jobs-Plus Clinical and Wellness Coordinator to support its mission of relentlessly pursuing strategies to close gaps in family and community wealth. Serving over 60,000 annually, Restoration’s programs span job training and placement, financial inclusion, and care coordination, connecting customers to social supports, including benefits, mental health services and the arts. Restoration is an equal opportunity employer. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. For more information on Restoration, visit: http://www.restorationplaza.org
About Jobs-Plus
Jobs-Plus, a comprehensive, place-based employment model that offers services to all working-age residents in designated public housing developments or clusters of developments, serves as a platform to help residents build their skills and connect to the labor market in high growth, high opportunity sectors so they can increase their incomes. Jobs-Plus should not be viewed as a quick fix; rather, the program seeks to help residents continue to improve their earnings over time, with residents taking the necessary and, at times, difficult steps towards advancing in their careers and closer towards their personal financial goals.
About the Position
The Jobs-Plus Clinical and Wellness Coordinator will report to the Jobs-Plus Assistant Director. Specific responsibilities and tasks of the Jobs-Plus Clinical and Wellness Coordinator include, but are not limited to:
● Lead the integration of C2C throughout all aspects of the Jobs-Plus program.
● Coordinate staff trainings and deliver continuous coaching to staff as needed on motivational interviewing, psycho-education, and mental health first aid.
● Screen customers for public benefits/social service needs and/or mental health needs (Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Substance abuse), ensuring that this is captured in the member’s Career Development Plan.
● Collaborate with and manage the Jobs-Plus Part-Time Clinician to coordinate pathways to clinical care for certain members.
● Collaborate closely with the Jobs-Plus Career Development Specialist to ensure that the member is addressing all supportive needs, if any, including wrap-around social services and mental health counseling, to optimize for job search.
● Make appropriate connections and schedule appointments with internal service staff as applicable and/ or refer for external community services.
● Participate in outreach and recruitment of new customers, conduct customer orientation sessions and facilitate workshops as needed.
● Participate in case conferences and lead technical assistance engagement of the site.
● Participate in regular staff meetings and supervisory sessions.
QUALIFICATIONS:
● Bachelor’s Degree
● At least five (5) years of successful experience working social services, mental health and/or substance abuse, or a related area.
● Ideal candidates have experience implementing partnerships and experience in the implementation of
community mental health service models, though these are not requirements.
● Excellent customer service skills, placing the member first and ability to work with customers from a strength-based approach.
● Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as documentation skills.
● A strong sense of and respect for confidentiality involving both clients and fellow employees.
● Ability to work in a variety of settings with culturally-diverse families and communities with the ability to
be culturally sensitive and appropriate.
● Bi-lingual (Spanish) is preferred but not required.
