Description

Position: Housing and Vocational Specialist

Program: REACH (Re-Entry Assisted Community Housing)

Location: New Haven

Salary: $23.00/hour

Schedule: Full time, 40 hours, 1st shift, Monday-Friday

Program Summary:

Providing short-term supportive housing and case management services for adults re-entering the community after incarceration to assist them in obtaining employment, identifying long-term housing, and maintaining a substance and crime free lifestyle.

Position Summary:

Work with case management staff to provide REACH clients with the necessary skills, including resources, needed to find and maintain employment while working towards their successful discharge from the REACH program. Ensure that REACH maintains the contractually necessary apartments, while working with staff and landlords to maintain these apartments in satisfactory condition.

Working within Adult Services, the Housing and Vocational Specialist works with Community Justice program staff to help to rehabilitate, educate, and successfully guide clients from incarceration back into the community.

Requirements: 

• Associate’s Degree
• 2 years of related experience in the direct service and case management field
• Valid Connecticut driver’s license
• Regular and predictable attendance is required
• The Connection Inc. complies with Executive Order 13G. Any employee hired on or after September 27, 2021 must either be vaccinated against COVID-19 or apply for a medical or religious exemption and be approved.

Orientation:

If selected for employment with The Connection, newly hired employees will be required to attend a two (2) day mandatory New Hire Orientation at our Roscommon office located in Middletown.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental, vision benefits are offered along with other additional voluntary coverages with full time employment
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer matching contribution
• Company paid short and long term disability and life insurance with full time employment
• Paid time off (vacation, personal and sick) with full time employment
• 12 paid holidays

The Connection is a statewide human services and community development agency that provides unique solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental illness, substance use, improving child welfare and community justice rehabilitation. For additional information, visit www.theconnectioninc.org.

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