What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director Social Services position at HELP USA?
Program: Anchor Inn City | 215-35 Northern Blvd, Bayside, NY 11361
What You’ll Do
If you want to help struggling and vulnerable families, this could be a great opportunity for you. Anchor Inn, located in Bayside, Queens, is an emergency shelter for asylum-seeking families with children. As Director of Social Services, you’ll lead a social services team providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed services.
Your responsibilities will include:
At HELP USA, we work to ensure that everyone has a place to call home. We’re one of the nation’s largest non-profit homeless services providers and low-income housing developers serving at-risk populations, including families, individuals, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, people with physical and mental health challenges and disabilities, and seniors. With an annual operating budget approaching $150 million and 1400 employees working in nearly 60 programs, we have helped over 500,000 people facing homelessness and poverty to build better lives. We hope that you will consider joining our team in the fight against homelessness.
EOE. A Drug-Free Workplace.
What You’ll Do
If you want to help struggling and vulnerable families, this could be a great opportunity for you. Anchor Inn, located in Bayside, Queens, is an emergency shelter for asylum-seeking families with children. As Director of Social Services, you’ll lead a social services team providing culturally sensitive, trauma-informed services.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing direct supervision to Case Managers and Recreation Specialists, ensuring the delivery of quality and appropriate services to clients through case conferences, team meetings, supervision, and case record reviews.
- Developing and monitoring service linkages for medical and mental health care, immigration legal services, childcare, school registration and related services, ESL instruction, interpretation and translation services, and other services as needed.
- Ensuring a smooth handoff from the Intake process to the Case Management team.
- Identifying changing program needs and program gaps and developing new services, service directions, and/or programs to meet client needs.
- Identifying staff development issues and ensuring staff receive appropriate training as needed.
- Managing a small caseload as needed.
- Master's degree in social work or related field preferred, with a Bachelor's degree required.
- Minimum five years of management experience, including management of a team providing services to people experiencing homelessness.
- Bilingual fluency in a second language, ideally Spanish/English.
- Experience working with the NYC Department of Homeless Services (DHS) and knowledge of CARES are strongly preferred.
- Health insurance through Cigna, including dental and vision, with an option that covers the entire family with minimal employee contribution.
- Generous Paid Time Off!
- 401(k) with Company contribution, even if the employee doesn't contribute.
- And More!
At HELP USA, we work to ensure that everyone has a place to call home. We’re one of the nation’s largest non-profit homeless services providers and low-income housing developers serving at-risk populations, including families, individuals, veterans, survivors of domestic violence, people with physical and mental health challenges and disabilities, and seniors. With an annual operating budget approaching $150 million and 1400 employees working in nearly 60 programs, we have helped over 500,000 people facing homelessness and poverty to build better lives. We hope that you will consider joining our team in the fight against homelessness.
EOE. A Drug-Free Workplace.
