Reports To: Program Director

Title: SOCIAL WORKER (Community-Based Services)

Reports to: Program Director

Hours: 35 Hours/Week; Exempt (Position requires staff to be onsite/Hybrid Schedules are determined by Program Leadership)

Job Summary: The Social Worker provides a full array of counseling, case management, group work services, and advocacy to victims of gender-based violence and their children.

Major Duties:

• Conduct intake and assessment with victims of domestic violence and other forms of gender-based violence for counseling, advocacy, legal assistance, and other needs.
• Provide direct service, including short-term individual counseling, on-going support groups, and follow-up to victims of domestic and gender-based violence.
• Provide advocacy and referrals related to entitlements, shelter, police response, legal assistance, medical, housing, and other emergency needs, as well as referrals for on-going and follow-up needs for survivors and their children.
• Develop and implement safety plans and goals according to the needs of the individual.
• Maintain case files, including progress notes, advocacy letters, and benefits applications.
• Cover hotline shifts to ensure survivors are responded to in a timely fashion.
• Participate in agency, program, and community meetings to further the goals of the program, including weekly supervision and staff meetings.
• Conduct community tablings, trainings, outreach activities, and education for sessions for various professional and lay groups as well as community residents and participants from other internal GSS programs as well as external organizations.
• Keep statistics and narratives for city, state, and federal reports, and enter data into the SHP ETO/Salesforce systems in a timely manner.
• Work a minimum of one late-night per week to meet the needs of the program and participants when needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in social work or relevant field required; licensure preferred.
• Knowledge of domestic and gender-based violence issues and experience working with survivors preferred.
• Ability to speak comfortably in public representing Safe Homes to community members and other professionals.
• Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Flexibility and ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to work independently and take initiative for projects and activities to support the program.
• Willing to travel to meet participants and/or external stakeholders.
• Commitment to work from a strength-based, youth and family development perspective.