Relief Support Advocate - SANE

About the role

The Relief Support Advocate will provide on-call shift coverage during overnight hours and some weekend evening hours for hospital advocacy, ensuring adequate coverage for the hospital SANE program. The ideal candidate is compassionate, capable of handling multiple tasks efficiently, and is incredibly reliable.

Responsibilities

• Equity and Inclusion: Reflect on how identities and power dynamics may create advantages or disadvantages in the workplace; build awareness and compassion to create an equitable and inclusive environment where clients and employees feel respected, valued, and safe.
• Shift Coverage: Provide on-call, in-person shift coverage at the hospital for domestic violence and sexual assault exams during overnight and evening weekend hours for a week at a time. Assigned to two relief advocates per week; each is expected to respond to hospital calls received. Failure to respond results in a 1/3 reduction of the stipend for each assigned advocate that week, with disciplinary action implemented by the advocate supervisor.
• Client Services: Provide advocacy, referral, and crisis intervention for victims receiving forensic sexual assault and domestic violence exams. Notify leadership (Vice President of Advocacy Services, clinical supervisor, or COPES) if a client appears in danger of self-harm or harm to others. Act as a mandated reporter for child and elder abuse and provide reports to leadership. Assist in monitoring survivor and transport supply stock and maintaining the hospital exam room in a clean and orderly manner. Document and maintain client records for sexual assault exams in compliance with DVIS guidelines and professional standards.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in social work, psychology, counseling, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience: None required.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
  • Proven computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Understanding and sensitivity toward issues involved in domestic violence, particularly as they relate to survivors of any gender, race, socioeconomic status, religion, or sexual orientation.
  • Ability to learn and grow trauma-informed, client-centered approaches.
  • Ability to collaborate in a decision-making process and work with others.
  • Knowledge of or experience with social justice issues, especially intimate partner and gender-based domestic and sexual violence, and racial, class, gender, and sexual orientation issues and intervention/prevention services strongly preferred.
  • Dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion; excellent organizational, written, and oral communication skills; attention to detail; ability to prioritize tasks; adaptability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced, multi-task environment.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
  • Commitment to DVIS’s philosophies promoting diversity, inclusion, equity, and anti-racism.
  • Diplomacy in confronting personal, individual, and internal discrimination, including sharing and discussing personal identities relative to the work environment, strongly preferred.
• Schedule Availability: Must be available to be on call for a week at a time and during that week, must be available to cover shifts Sunday–Saturday, midnight to 8:30 a.m., and Saturday and Sunday, 5:00 p.m.–midnight.
• Licenses/Certifications: Valid Oklahoma driver’s license; current CPR and First Aid certification preferred.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made when requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Ability to communicate and understand in English effectively, in person and in writing.
• Ability to hear adequately in person and by phone in personal and group settings, with periodic distractions.
• Ability to work with and process information from a variety of individuals and media (e.g., computers, projected images, printed materials), with occasional sitting or standing for long periods.
• Mobility to access various offices and settings, including intermittent standing, walking, sitting, stooping, kneeling, bending, twisting, occasional stair climbing or elevator use, and reaching chest high and overhead.
• Ability to lift up to 25 pounds and use hands for repetitive tasks such as extended keyboarding.