Social Work Practitioners needed

• Email: tiaagainstabuse@gmail.com

We are currently seeking five Social Work practitioners to join our team. The purpose of this position is to provide crisis intervention and assistance to citizens who are victims of abuse. This is accomplished by ensuring that the medical, emotional, social, and economic needs of individuals are effectively addressed and met and coordinating assigned activities within our programs or government’s agencies to ensure victim’s rights are protected. We have openings in Houston -Texas, Liberia, Ghana, Haiti and Columbia. The essential Functions include:

• Assists clients by interviewing clients and significant others and gathering specific information to determine preliminary eligibility for program(s) and make appropriate referral services to ensure that identified socioeconomic needs have been addressed and/or met.
• Accepts referrals from agencies and interviews individuals referred to determine the nature and degree of problem, eligibility for program, and make appropriate referrals.
• Counsels individuals, families and groups by developing a client treatment plan to ensure that individuals receive appropriate services and interventions. Provides information to abuse victims on the criminal justice system.
• Makes home visits to assess client’s needs, conducts follow-up interviews, and maintain contact with clients.
• Obtains and maintains necessary information on individuals receiving assistance to determine continued eligibility for assistance.
• Monitors and evaluates the quality, responsiveness, efficiency and effectiveness of victim assistance program.
• Provide on-site, on-call crisis intervention services 24 hours per day; seven days per week.
• Performs needs assessments in order to identify the needs of the community and recommend solutions. Provide information to community groups on victim issues and victims’ assistance programs.
• Maintain accurate record keeping of files and client contacts, updating referral lists, updating victim databases to track and generate reports, receiving, processing and maintaining Victim Statements, and assisting victims or families of victims in completing required forms and statements.
• Coordinates and trains volunteers who assist with the abuse victims’ program.