Social Services Manager

On-siteRecuperative Care

POSITION TITLE:          Social Services Manager

REPORTS TO:               Director of Recuperative Care  

LOCATION:                   Los Angeles-Pico Union

CLASSIFICATION:        Exempt, Full Time

SALARY: $60,000.00 - $70,000.00

• Work Shift: Tuesday-Saturday, 8:30AM-5:00PM
• All positions require candidates to successfully pass a background check, LIVE scan and TB Test.

Social Service Manager

The Social Services Manager provides oversight within the social services department and liaises with hospital social workers and/other external case manager representatives when necessary. Social Services Manager ensures maintenance of quality of care while providing overall leadership in social services disciplines at their respective recuperative care sites.  In this role, they support organizational goals; apply professional experience and independent judgment to complex tasks; perform a wide variety of managerial and administrative functions to assess needs and ensure program objectives are met; serve as a community and organizational resource on issues of healthcare and homelessness. They are responsible for the management of all social services needs for recuperative care guests.  Provide all necessary staff support and guidance to interns and Recuperative Care Social Service Coordinators and associates to ensure project objectives are achieved.  Ability to shape program direction through strategic networking, collaboration, and internal and external relationships.

Responsibilities and Initiatives

To help NHF meet its growth goals, the Social Services Manager will:

• Provide direction, leadership and participate with providing information respective to social services department and program site grant funding activities with Director’s acknowledgement and guidance.

• Maintain quality guest care by completing quality assurance checks of guest files and sites.

• Ability to maintain caseload of 25 and above, when required, to meet the needs of the facility.

• Must be able to conduct and/or assign social services staff to complete home visits and provide necessary case management to ensure housing placement stability for guests who have been discharged to permanent residence within the Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) program.

• Ability to conduct house/group advisory board meetings for guests to address concerns or feedback.

• Ability to enter HMIS documentation and/or support social services staff in doing so and/or adhere to LAHSA standards, as applicable.

• Facilitate and provide on-going case review, case conferencing, and ensure outcome measures are meeting strategic goals for social services department.

• Audit and maintain accurate information contained in proprietary CRM database.

• Lead efforts to establish strategic partnerships with community resources that will benefit guest needs during their stay in the program and upon exit.