Bilingual Community Care Coordinator/Prison Discharge Planner - Full Time
Cumberland County, NJ Cumberland County, NJ Full-time Full-time $40,000 - $42,000 a year $40,000 - $42,000 a year 14 days ago 14 days ago 14 days ago Job Summary South Jersey AIDS Alliance South Jersey AIDS Alliance is a caring and compassionate organization dedicated to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
With over 30 years of service, South Jersey Against AIDS remains the only AIDS Service Organization in southeastern New Jersey; a region of 1,500 square miles with over a million residents comprised by Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Camden counties (Including three state prisons housing over 7,900 inmates).
SJAA's PHILOSOPHY SJAA employs evidence-based practices to ensure consistent, quality services to its persons served.
SJAA's challenge is to design and implement HIV care/treatment and prevention services that are based on the premise that all cultures are valued and that the strategies employed are culturally relevant.
SJAA defines culture broadly to include populations and subpopulations to include IDU, MSM, transgender, HIV+, women, and incarcerated.
SJAA will dedicate resources to build knowledge, awareness, skills, and action plans to address a range of learning and to appreciate and benefit from diversity.
SJAA is committed to developing and implementing programs that will seek to integrate a broad range of services and intervention mixes that provide persons served the resources to improve their quality of life.
I.
Competencies TEAM WORK -- Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit, works with others to achieve goals.
DECISION MAKING -- Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination draw conclusions or solve a problem.
ORAL COMMUNICATION -- Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, considering the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
READING -- Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs or tables; applies that is learned from written material to specific situations.
Recognizes correct English; grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS -- Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well with people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences; and shows dignity and respect to all.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCE -- Knowledge of how to perform one's job.
Refers to specialized knowledge, that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the- job experience.
(For example, case management standards and procedures, investigative interviewing, legal research, case law, court rules, general accounting principles, credit and collections).
WRITING -- Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, which is appropriate for the intended audience.
INTEGRITY & HONESTY -- Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION -- Uses machines, tools, or equipment effectively; uses computers and computer applications to analyze and communicate information in the appropriate format.
II.
Responsibilities:
? Conduct client intakes, both with inmates at South Woods State Prison and Bayside State Prison and in the community ? Develop care and/or risk reduction plans and discharge plans in conjunction with clients ? Assist clients in and with the acquisition of needed services through referrals to and facilitation of linkages with other departments, providers and/or organizations and agencies ? Provision of HIV Services Orientation to new inmates ? Provision of HIV education to the general correctional facility population ? Encouragement of members of the facility's identified populations with unknown status to be tested ? Provision of HIV case management services prior to release into the community (e.
g.
, arranges for all levels of client care including medical, financial, mental health, housing, transportation and other social service needs.
) ? Provision of HIV case management to people living with HIV/AIDS in the community ? Accompany client to parole upon release ? Post-discharge follow-up services for a minimum of 3 months ? Input information into database ? Routinely solicit client feedback ? Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned III.
Requirements:
Education/
Experience:
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator will have a minimum of an associate or baccalaureate degree in human services from an accredited college or university.
Individuals without related academic degrees, relevant work experience conducted under the supervision of a human service professional can be substituted.
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator must have a valid New Jersey Driver's License and be able to obtain clearance from the Department of Corrections.
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator will possess strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent presentation skills.
A working knowledge of HIV/AIDS and related issues is helpful.
Benefits All full-time employees receive employer paid medical, dental, prescription benefits and life insurance.
All major holidays off (including the week between Christmas and New Year's) as well as generous PTO.
After one year of service employees are encouraged to join a retired savings plan (401K) with employer matching funds.
Travel:
During the first 3-6 months all new hires will be required to complete federal, state, and agency training.
This may result is colleagues traveling daily to additional sites.
Travel beyond the colleague's standard commute will be reimbursed monthly.
Additional training may be needed beyond the first 6 months of employment.
Training is a condition of employment with SJAA.
Colleagues may also need to travel to attend SJAA meetings and/or functions such as our annual fundraiser.
Job Type:
Full-time Pay:
$40,000.
00 - $42,000.
00 per year
Benefits:
401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off Schedule:
8 hour shift Monday to Friday Work setting:
In-person Ability to commute/relocate:
Cumberland County, NJ:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required) Language:
Spanish (Required) License/Certification:
Driver's License (Required) Work Location:
In person.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
With over 30 years of service, South Jersey Against AIDS remains the only AIDS Service Organization in southeastern New Jersey; a region of 1,500 square miles with over a million residents comprised by Atlantic, Cape May, Cumberland and Camden counties (Including three state prisons housing over 7,900 inmates).
SJAA's PHILOSOPHY SJAA employs evidence-based practices to ensure consistent, quality services to its persons served.
SJAA's challenge is to design and implement HIV care/treatment and prevention services that are based on the premise that all cultures are valued and that the strategies employed are culturally relevant.
SJAA defines culture broadly to include populations and subpopulations to include IDU, MSM, transgender, HIV+, women, and incarcerated.
SJAA will dedicate resources to build knowledge, awareness, skills, and action plans to address a range of learning and to appreciate and benefit from diversity.
SJAA is committed to developing and implementing programs that will seek to integrate a broad range of services and intervention mixes that provide persons served the resources to improve their quality of life.
I.
Competencies TEAM WORK -- Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit, works with others to achieve goals.
DECISION MAKING -- Specifies goals and obstacles to achieving those goals, generates alternatives, considers risks, and evaluates and chooses the best alternative in order to make a determination draw conclusions or solve a problem.
ORAL COMMUNICATION -- Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, considering the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.
READING -- Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs or tables; applies that is learned from written material to specific situations.
Recognizes correct English; grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
INTERPERSONAL SKILLS -- Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, concern, and politeness to others; develops and maintains effective relationships with others; may include effectively dealing with individuals who are difficult, hostile, or distressed; relates well with people from varied backgrounds and different situations; is sensitive to cultural diversity, race, gender, disabilities, and other individual differences; and shows dignity and respect to all.
TECHNICAL COMPETENCE -- Knowledge of how to perform one's job.
Refers to specialized knowledge, that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the- job experience.
(For example, case management standards and procedures, investigative interviewing, legal research, case law, court rules, general accounting principles, credit and collections).
WRITING -- Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling; communicates information (for example, facts, ideas, or messages) in a succinct and organized manner; produces written information, which may include technical material, which is appropriate for the intended audience.
INTEGRITY & HONESTY -- Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organization; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organization, self, and others; is trustworthy.
TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION -- Uses machines, tools, or equipment effectively; uses computers and computer applications to analyze and communicate information in the appropriate format.
II.
Responsibilities:
? Conduct client intakes, both with inmates at South Woods State Prison and Bayside State Prison and in the community ? Develop care and/or risk reduction plans and discharge plans in conjunction with clients ? Assist clients in and with the acquisition of needed services through referrals to and facilitation of linkages with other departments, providers and/or organizations and agencies ? Provision of HIV Services Orientation to new inmates ? Provision of HIV education to the general correctional facility population ? Encouragement of members of the facility's identified populations with unknown status to be tested ? Provision of HIV case management services prior to release into the community (e.
g.
, arranges for all levels of client care including medical, financial, mental health, housing, transportation and other social service needs.
) ? Provision of HIV case management to people living with HIV/AIDS in the community ? Accompany client to parole upon release ? Post-discharge follow-up services for a minimum of 3 months ? Input information into database ? Routinely solicit client feedback ? Assumes additional responsibilities as assigned III.
Requirements:
Education/
Experience:
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator will have a minimum of an associate or baccalaureate degree in human services from an accredited college or university.
Individuals without related academic degrees, relevant work experience conducted under the supervision of a human service professional can be substituted.
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator must have a valid New Jersey Driver's License and be able to obtain clearance from the Department of Corrections.
Bilingual Community Care Coordinator will possess strong interpersonal skills as well as excellent presentation skills.
A working knowledge of HIV/AIDS and related issues is helpful.
Benefits All full-time employees receive employer paid medical, dental, prescription benefits and life insurance.
All major holidays off (including the week between Christmas and New Year's) as well as generous PTO.
After one year of service employees are encouraged to join a retired savings plan (401K) with employer matching funds.
Travel:
During the first 3-6 months all new hires will be required to complete federal, state, and agency training.
This may result is colleagues traveling daily to additional sites.
Travel beyond the colleague's standard commute will be reimbursed monthly.
Additional training may be needed beyond the first 6 months of employment.
Training is a condition of employment with SJAA.
Colleagues may also need to travel to attend SJAA meetings and/or functions such as our annual fundraiser.
Job Type:
Full-time Pay:
$40,000.
00 - $42,000.
00 per year
Benefits:
401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Health insurance Paid time off Schedule:
8 hour shift Monday to Friday Work setting:
In-person Ability to commute/relocate:
Cumberland County, NJ:
Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required) Language:
Spanish (Required) License/Certification:
Driver's License (Required) Work Location:
In person.
Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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