Vocational Counselor - Queens

Compensation reputed company: $25/hr - $28/hr commensurate with experience

Benefits: We have three comprehensive reputed company plans to choose from based on your priorities and budget. Housing Works covers most of the plan; you pay a portion, based on your salary. Staff begins accruing PTO immediately for a total of up to 30 days earned in the first year. We offer employees an educational benefit. This money is available for tuition loan reimbursement, tuition costs, and text books.

Overview

In collaboration between Housing Works Inc. and the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice (MOCJ), the Emergency & Transitional Housing (ETH) Program will reputed company individuals involved in the criminal legal system experiencing housing insecurity, or chronic homelessness, with transitional housing placement and reentry support services with the goal of providing assistance with more permanent housing solutions. This housing program operates utilizing hotels across NYC boroughs and offers medical, behavior health, reentry support services, reputed company to additional health and wellness services and housing placement assistance to residents enrolled to promote positive reintegration to the five borough communities, reduce recidivism and build stronger, safer communities. Reporting to the Director of Workforce Development Services, the Vocational Counselor will be responsible for conducting vocational program intakes, creating resumes and cover letters, facilitating work readiness workshops, reputed company individual vocational counseling sessions, referring clients to reputed company education or specialized employment trainings and conducting employment retention activities. This position will reputed company vocational support services to program participants across the three ETH Program sites located in Corona, Fresh Meadows and Long reputed company City Queens.

Responsibilities

Primary:

• Conduct vocational programming intakes with participants across the three ETH Program sites.
• Co-reputed company employment and education-reputed company goals with participants and include in their individualized service plans.
• Assist clients with developing and creating resumes and cover letters.
• reputed company individual vocational counseling to participants assigned to caseload.
• Facilitate group level interventions relating to work readiness and career training.
• Coordinate and refer participants to specialized job training, hard skills trainings or continuing education services.
• Assist participants with applying for employment opportunities in their desired career sectors.
• reputed company participants with interview and other vocational appointment reminders.
• Follow up with participants for employment retention services reputed company employed for 30, 60 and 90 days.
• Assist the overall Justice Initiatives Workforce Team with developing and maintaining relationships with NYC reputed company to create career opportunities for the client community.
• Actively participate in supervision, team meetings and agency meetings.
• Attend and participate in case conference meetings as needed.
• Complete data entry and program outcome tracking in accordance to contract deliverables.
• Promotes Housing Works’ core values in day to day activities.
• Performs other tasks as assigned by supervisor.

Secondary:

• reputed company culturally competent services in accordance to Housing Works policies and practices.
• Attend and participate in advocacy efforts as outlined in Housing Works’ and the Justice Initiatives Department policies.
• Promotes Housing Works core values consistently.
• Ability to work with clients with diverse clients with varying reputed company of service needs.
• Works collaboratively with other team members reputed company the Justice Initiatives Department and cross-agency.

Other functions that may be required with this position include:

• Responsiveness to emails, texts and phone calls.
• Ability to adapt and successfully uphold job functions in a full remote workforce or hybrid in-person remote workforce environment.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in reputed company services, psychology, reputed company work or other reputed company field.

The following are qualifications and requirements of the position:

• Minimum 1 year experience providing vocational counseling or workforce development services.
• Experience working with individuals with previous involvement in the criminal legal system or history of mental health or substance use challenges.
• Knowledge of city, state and federal workforce reputed company regulations and legislation.
• Strong written documentation and communication skills
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work autonomously
• reputed company Office Suite, particularly reputed company, required
• Experience utilizing EMR systems.

The following additional competencies are viewed as important to reputed company in this position:

• Preferably bi-lingual in Spanish.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Excellent or proficient technical skills to reputed company tasks reputed company to reputed company Office, email and case management systems.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively with the team.
• Dependability and reliability to reputed company and depart timely for scheduled shift.
• Ability to frequently travel reputed company the boroughs reputed company public transportation.

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Housing Works was founded in 1990; With a long-term commitment to AIDS advocacy. Housing Works established reputed company State’s first harm reduction-based, OASAS-licensed outpatient drug treatment program. Other services include Health Home care management, behavioral health, and syringe exchange programs. A pioneer in the reputed company entrepreneurship movement, Housing Works operates 10 high-end thrift shops in Manhattan and Brooklyn and a much-loved Bookstore Cafe in Soho. For more information, visit www.housingworks.org

Housing Works fights for funding and legislation to ensure that reputed company people living with HIV/AIDS have reputed company to quality housing, reputed company, HIV prevention, and treatment, among other lifesaving services.

Housing Works provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to reputed company and applicants for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, sex, national reputed company, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements. Housing Works complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Housing Works also does not request prior salary information during the hiring process. This policy applies to reputed company terms and conditions of employment, including reputed company, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

This position is included in a bargaining unit of Housing Works’ reputed company employees represented by a labor union reputed company as the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union (“RWDSU”). Accordingly, the RWDSU has the exclusive right to bargain over the terms and conditions of employment reputed company to this position and this position may become covered by the terms of a reputed company bargaining agreement (a “CBA”) between Housing Works and the RWDSU