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Express is now hiring for a Coordinated Entry Placement Specialist at a local non-profit based out of Olympia, WA. This is an evaluation to permanent opportunity. The schedule is considered full time, Monday-Thursday 9AM-5PM and Fridays 9AM-2PM*. *The compensation for this position will start at $25.00-$25.50/hr DOE. This company offers benefits to include medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. They also offer:

• Holiday Pay-90 hours per fiscal year, days chosen by employee
• Vacation Pay-2 weeks/year- accrued per hour worked

• Sick Pay- 12 days/year- accrued per hour worked

   

*Job Details: *This organization is responsible for ensuring there is a high quality and functioning system for households experiencing homelessness to gain access to housing and shelter resources. The CE Placement Specialist position is responsible for supporting proper data quality across the coordinated entry system, facilitating referrals to housing and shelter providers (largely for the single adult population), supporting with case conferencing meetings, and the Built for Zero Initiative. The position may support with training providers on how to complete coordinated entry, field questions and challenges experienced by providers supporting coordinated entry, and working collaboratively with the broader team and organization to ensure the system is responsive to the needs of participants and partners.

Support the Coordinated Entry team and Program Manager in ensuring community providers completing CE packets are trained, aware of the current process, and challenges, questions, or issues are addressed.

Support with the review and processing of intake packets submitted from community partners, and follow up with partners as needed to ensure packets are complete and all required information is provided.

Complete data entry, ensuring households information is entered into HMIS and the appropriate CE database ensuring proper data quality and timeliness.

Update data within the CE databases to ensure that the master lists are current and contain sufficient information to make appropriate and timely referrals to services.

Provide management of the master list(s) (primarily single adult population based) to ensure households remain active, housing statuses are updated and correct, and moving households off of the list as they secure housing.

Work with applicable Program Managers to ensure placement from family and DV master lists to applicable programs, ensuring placement across all populations is consistent.

Collaborate with the CE Program Manager and broader team to ensure communication with community partners who accept referrals from the CE system is maintained, and as a team sustaining knowledge of program requirements, placement needs and availability of services.

Utilize the master list to identify the highest scoring, eligible and interested households to refer to available resources. Make or identify a CE staff person to make contact with clients who are next on the list for programs as provider's request referrals; utilize client's associated provider information to also reach out to increase success in locating clients to receive placements.

Remain aware of any bypass of the list approvals and ensure all bypasses are accounted for when making referrals to providers; stay in communication with CE Program Manager regarding bypasses as needed.

Provide partner organization with the name, HMIS #, contact information, and any other pertinent information for each referral. Ensure Release of Information's are followed, as well as any applicable care collaboration agreements.

Communicate regularly with partner agencies seeking information about placement on master list, referrals available, client eligibility, etc. Respond to partner requests within 2 busines