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POSITION TITLE : Employment Specialist I
POSITION TYPE : Full-time (40 hours); non-exempt
PAY RANGE : $27-$30 Hourly
REPORTS TO : Workforce & Training Manager
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ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO (MHASF)
MHASF is a mental health peer-run nonprofit located in downtown San Francisco and has been serving people and agencies across the Bay Area since 1947. As mental health consumers, we center the lived expertise of people with mental health challenges in our advocacy, education, and support programs. We believe that dignity and recovery in mental health are something everyone can experience. Our staff is dedicated to creating spaces for learning and healing around stigmatized and under-resourced areas in mental health-hoarding and cluttering behavior; post-hospitalization peer support; mental health and nutrition; peer mental health workforce development; and much more.
OVERVIEW OF POSITION
PROPEL is a workforce development division of MHASF. PROPEL's mission is to support, train, and place individuals seeking employment in mental health and/or substance use treatment. PROPEL achieves this by engaging in recruitment and outreach, career counseling, training, placement, and support activities, prioritizing peer personnel employment.
An Employment Specialist I (ES) with the PROPEL program at MHASF carries out Supported Employment (SE) services by helping participants obtain and sustain employment consistent with their vocational goals and supportive of their recovery. ES is responsible for all SE evidence-based practices that assist in securing jobs for those with mental health and substance use challenges. An ES with PROPEL understands that competitive employment is achievable if a participant wants to become gainfully employed. Participants served are not excluded based on readiness, diagnoses, symptoms, substance use history, psychiatric conditions, homelessness, level of disability, or legal system involvement. An ES for PROPEL will also interface with the business community and community-based organizations to establish relationships that can benefit PROPEL participants. An ideal candidate is highly organized and detail-oriented and should be able to work independently and with a team.
TOP 3 RESPONSIBILITIES
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
As job descriptions cannot be exhaustive, the above list of responsibilities is intended to provide a general overview of duties to be assigned and in no way is a comprehensive list of position duties and responsibilities.
POSITION QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS
SUCCESSFUL ATTITUDES & WORK APPROACHES
Full Time
$82k-101k (estimate)
05/29/2024
06/15/2024
mentalhealthsf.org
BURLINGAME, CA
25 - 50
1947
DONNA WOLF
<$5M
Ancillary Healthcare
The Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHASF) cultivates peer leadership, builds community, and advances social justice in mental health. We are a peer-led social justice community dedicated to progressive mental health issues for the past 70 years. We provide person centered support focused on building human connection and community development. Learn more about MHASF's programs here: http://mentalhealthsf.org/causes/ !
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