Title: Intake Victim Advocate
Status: Non-Exempt
Salary: $24.73 per hour
Schedule: Monday – Friday, 33 hours per week, with on-call requirement
Supervisor: Clinical Coordinator
Function:
The Intake Victim Advocate is a front-line advocate, first responder to a victim in need, clinical scheduler, and primary advocate for the Youth Who Witness Violence initiative. The Intake Victim Advocate provides casework services to clients including crisis counseling, safety planning, advocacy, information and referrals, emergency financial assistance, and claims filing. This requires the ability to work quickly and concisely under extreme pressure to provide services and safety to survivors of crime.
Job Requirements:
Other Requirements:
Benefits:
Our Mission:
Family Services brings people together to find the support they need, improving their lives and communities, and building a stronger safer Hudson Valley.
Our Values:
Compassion – Extending empathy and understanding to others.
Integrity – Being honest and dependable.
Hope – Believing in the strength of the human spirit and heart, to emerge and thrive when faced with a challenge.
Diversity – Promoting a vision of community comprised of wide-ranging assets.
Respect – Treating all individuals with dignity and without judgement.
Community – Recognizing and reinforcing the importance of our world as being comprised of people of differing strengths and perspectives.
Justice – Promoting social and economic equity and fairness.
Quality – Aspiring for excellence in every aspect of our work.
Job Responsibilities:
Competencies
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Work Environment – Family Services Inc. Center for Victim Safety and Support is a 24-hour crisis center. The Intake Victim Advocate will split their time between advocating and interacting with community agencies and systems, meeting with individuals and working on the Clinical and Advocacy team at the Center for Victim Safety and Support, completing documentation and administrative responsibilities and participating in meetings at Family Services. The Intake Victim Advocate will remain available to deploy into the Dutchess County community with Youth Witness to Violence team in response to community trauma.
Family Services, Inc. complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact hr@familyservicesny.org.
We are an equal opportunity employer and our goal is to be a diverse workforce representative of the community we serve. Family Services, Inc. follows federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination in hiring and employment. We do not discriminate against employees or applicants in violation of those laws.
Must be authorized to work in the United States without work sponsorship.
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