Housing Navigator - Bilingual Spanish/Farsi/Russian Preferred

Description

Join Elica’s mission and become a part of a team where every day is an opportunity to make a positive impact in your community!

At Elica Health Centers, we share a common goal: provide the best possible patient care to our growing community! Our passion extends throughout Elica, from the exceptional healthcare services we provide to our underserved patients at our Community Health Clinics and state-of-the-art mobile medicine program, Health on Wheels, to our Resource Center where we empower patients and members of the community to connect with resources to help them build healthy and full lives.

We are growing our Community Supports (CS) program at Elica! CS is a key part of CalAIM’s new statewide Medi-Cal benefit available to select members with complex needs and who are facing difficult life and health circumstances. CS services are free and can help members with complex health issues that may be caused or worsened by a lack of housing, food, or transportation. Community Supports at Elica support Medi-Cal Beneficiaries in establishing a basic household and maintain safe and stable housing.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

Under the supervision of Community Supports Supervisor, the Housing Navigator fills a central role in the CalAim Community Supports program by linking eligible Medi-Cal clients experiencing homelessness to housing resources by developing a housing plan focused towards breaking the cycle of homelessness and sustaining housing stability and decreasing their utilization of high-cost services. The end goal for the Housing Navigator is to facilitate clients experiencing homelessness into permanent housing, provide participant advocacy, engage with landlords and other agencies, coordinate with other Case and Care Managers to ensure linkage to benefit establishment, connect with Mental Health and/or Substance Use Services, link to stable housing and all other resources as needed. The Housing Navigator will provide individualized support by helping each client learn how to address their barriers, maintain and sustain permanent housing.

The Housing Navigator must operate in compliance while providing Housing Transition Navigation, Housing Deposits, Housing Tenancy and Sustaining services to clients enrolled in the CS programs. The ultimate goal of all services provided is assisting the client with obtaining fair, safe and permanent housing, sustaining their housing, and providing linkage to resources available to clients.

The CS team is a part of the Social Care Department and works in close collaboration with ECM and other support programs.

BENEFITS:

Elica is proud to offer an exciting benefits package to qualifying full-time employees which can support your health, your family, and help you plan for the future.

• 403B retirement savings account with up to 4% employer matching contribution and 100% immediate vesting.
• Healthcare: Medical (Kaiser or Anthem PPO Options), Dental, Vision - Individual and family plans available
• Company funded Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) to help pay for out-of-pocket costs related to medical coverage
• FSA Plans: 2 options for Flexible Spending Accounts - Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA
• Company paid basic Life and AD&D Insurance. (supplemental life and AD&D options available)
• Optional Critical Illness, Accident, ID Theft Protection and Pet insurance potions
• Accrued paid time off and paid holidays.
• Employee Assistance Plan with five (5) free counseling visits, financial services, legal services, and a plethora of online resources.
• Tuition Reimbursement program and CME/CEU program.

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Requirements

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The successful candidate will be willing and able to:

• Collaborate with community housing agencies and landlords to build partnerships with supporting clients transitions to available housing options.
• Support clients experiencing homelessness by engaging harder to reach clients about housing opportunities, often meeting the clients out of the office or clinic environment.
• Coordinated Entry System: Tenant screening and housing assessment, include managing HMIS data entry and use of VI-SPADAT assessments.
• Completions of Needs Assessment and Individualized Housing Stabilization Plan development including breaking down barriers in obtaining/sustaining housing, developing long and short term goals and setting deadlines on tasks and interventions.
• Support the client with housing applications, programs and other