Housing Coach

Join our Adult Services team as a Housing Coach! Using trauma-informed care case-management, you will assist chronically homeless mental health consumers with securing safe, affordable housing and promote independent living in a healthy environment. Your goal will be to transition special needs populations to stable, permanent housing and long-term self-sufficiency. You will accomplish this by:

• Identifying causal deterrents towards self-sufficiency,
• Setting short-term and long-term goals with participants,
• Assisting participants reach their goals by applying for legal documentation, reviewing personal budgets, providing employment coaching, searching for housing, etc., and
• Providing resources to participants in need such as toiletries, food items, clothing, applications for assistance, etc.

Westmoreland Community Action is a non-profit organization that works to connect individuals and families to opportunities and resources throughout the community to improve their quality of life and help to reduce poverty in the community. This is accomplished through housing, counseling, support, education, intervention, collaborations, partnerships, information, referrals, and networking.

Our Housing Programs works with individuals and families in Westmoreland County to help remove barriers and disparities that hinder them from maintaining self-sufficiency. Our Housing Department offers a variety of housing and supportive services interventions ranging from emergency supplies, transitional housing, rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, systems navigation and street outreach.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with major course work in either sociology, social work, psychology, counseling, education or other related field OR two years of experience in public or private human services, of which one year must be mental health direct care experience.
• Experience working with individuals experiencing homelessness/housing instability is a plus.
• Basic computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel.
• Must be willing to travel throughout Westmoreland County.
• Must possess a valid PA driver’s license, auto insurance, and a reasonably clean driving record.
• Must be able to provide or able to obtain child abuse, state police, fingerprint-based criminal background check, and sex offender registry clearances.

Hourly rate based on years of expereince: $18.48 – $20.23 per hour.

Benefits:

• 100% Employer paid dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability polices,
• ICHRA health plans – Using an allowance, choose the best plan for you,
• 16 paid holidays,
• 10 days of vacation in first year of employment,
• Sick time,
• 8% retirement match after 1 year and 1000 hours of service,
• Mileage reimbursement,
• Time and a half for holidays worked.

Westmoreland Community Action (WCA) is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects our community and those that we seek to serve. If you, in good faith, believe that you are qualified to succeed in this position, we encourage you to apply. Please include a cover letter to tell us about your unique qualifications for the position. Our hiring manager will review your application and, if interested, will contact you regarding next steps.

REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY TO SAFELY PERFORM THE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF THE POSITION OF HOUSING COACH:

Strength requirements - Push/pull, lift/move up to 25 pounds.

Manual dexterity - Perform moderately difficult manipulation - typing, writing, filing.

Coordination - Perform tasks which require foot and/or hand/eye coordination - driving a car, computer data entry.

Mobility - Walk, stand, sit for prolonged periods of time, drive.

Speech - Articulate with extreme accuracy – employee/participant relations, phone contact.

Vision - Read small print, drive a car.

Hearing - Able to receive verbal information with some background noise.

Concentration - Able to concentrate on moderate to fine detail with constant interruption.

Memory - Able to remember multiple verbal and written task-assignments given at beginning of a period extending over long period of time.

Environment Conditions – Indoor/outdoor work.