Outreach Worker

About the role

Vinfen is a nonprofit organization providing community-based services to individuals with various disabilities and challenges. The Outreach Worker role involves supporting individuals in developing and enhancing their daily living skills, achieving their goals, and becoming more independent.

Responsibilities

• Implement service plan interventions with persons served.
• Provide direct training and support for persons served in developing and enhancing their daily living skills.
• Maintain and update documentation in individual and program records.
• Act as an advocate for persons served.
• Communicate verbally and in writing with co-workers, supervisors, and other service providers.
• Espouse persons served into the community using public transportation, company or personal vehicle, as necessary.
• Monitor status of persons served, provide crisis intervention and counseling, as needed.
• Report incidents to on-call manager or supervisor, as required.
• Perform housecleaning tasks, as assigned.
• Attend in-service trainings and staff meetings, as assigned.
• Provide coverage for the program as required, including overnights, days, evenings, weekends, and holidays.
• Adhere to established policies and procedures of the program and company as well as internal and external standards and regulations.
• Store, administer, document, and dispose of medication for persons served consistent with MAC requirements, funding source regulations, and Company policy.
• May assume on-call duties in some programs.
• May provide outreach to persons served living in their own homes.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field preferred, but experience may substitute for education.
• A high school diploma or GED required.
• At least 1 year of related experience.
• Strong time management, organizational, and writing skills.
• All applicants must be at least 21 years of age and have a current, valid, US drivers' license for at least 6 months.
• Must have access to the reliable insured vehicle.
• All applicants must become CPR, First Aid certified within 2 weeks of employment and MAP certified within 150 days of employment.
• All candidates must be able to successfully pass a CORI, reference, national fingerprinting and driving record check.

Knowledge and Skills

• Sensitivity to cultural, religious, racial, disability, and gender issues.
• Knowledge and use of advocacy techniques.
• Knowledge and use of different communication styles.
• Participatory skills, collaborative skills, teaching skills.
• Knowledge of human, legal, civil rights, community, and other resources.
• Knowledge of available equipment, therapies, and service providers.
• Knowledge of empowerment and self-advocacy techniques.
• Knowledge of formal and informal assessment practices.
• Knowledge of participatory planning techniques.
• Knowledge of required physical personal management skills.
• Knowledge of required household management skills.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention techniques.
• Ability to work independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team.

Physical Effort

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, kneel, stoop, crouch, crawl, climb as this is a very physically active position.
• Must be able to lift at least 25 pounds using proper lifting techniques or the use of a two-person lift.
• Ability to operate a computer and other office equipment such as a calculator, copier, and printer.
• Ability to sit, reach, climb stairs, and maneuver through narrow spaces or hallways.
• Ability to assist clients with tasks of daily living.
• Ability to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time as needed.
• Ability to bend, reach, file, sit, stand, and move around the facility.
• Ability to speak, hear, and communicate with clients, staff, and external representatives.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• For positions in day programs or group residences, the ability to assist in routine living activities including cleaning, meal preparation, vacuuming, shoveling, and grocery shopping.

Pay Range

USD $22.05 - USD $22.05 /Hr.