SSI Social Worker

• →Support clients in identifying their needs, setting goals, and developing a plan for achieving those goals through appropriate evidence-based clinical practices.
• →Travel to and meet clients in various settings, such as home, shelters, street, public benefits offices, medical clinics, and hearings.
• →Regularly engage clients through outreach to assess interest in obtaining health care, and help clients identify physical, behavioral health care, and substance use treatment needs, connect clients to care, provide case management to prioritize, set, and follow up on health care appointments – includes accompanying clients to appointments as needed.
• →Provide crisis intervention and crisis counseling, develop emergency safety plans, and long-term plans as a team with the client and attorney.
• →Help clients connect to housing support services and refer clients for help to maintain housing. All BayLegal’s unhoused San Francisco SSI Advocacy clients have been prioritized for housing by the city’s Coordinated Entry system.
• →Support clients' applications for Social Security disability benefits by assisting with some forms, appointments, supporting clients at hearing and other interviews.  Assist and follow up with applications for other benefits programs, such as County Adult Assistance, CalFresh, and MediCal. 
• →Develop relationships and engage in collaboration with a range of public and private community partners, including governmental agencies, medical and behavioral health care providers, and community-based organizations, to ensure integrative services and address systemic barriers facing BayLegal's client community;
• →Engage as part of a multi-disciplinary team in other tasks and projects that further BayLegal's mission and operations as a non-profit. 
• →Collaborate with social workers across BayLegal to provide consultation and agency-wide training as needed.  

Work Environment: This position is primarily sedentary and currently hybrid remote. When in the office, the applicant can expect to be working at a desk in a temperature-controlled office, in a modular space or individual office. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.  

Physical Demands: BayLegal provides this list for transparency of the physical demands that may be required for this position. BayLegal is committed to to being a workplace that supports applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants and employees may request reasonable accommodation and BayLegal will engage in an interactive process.

While performing duties of job, employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.  

Applications: BayLegal is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Recruitment, placement and promotions are conducted without regard to an individual's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status or sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by Federal, State, and local laws & ordinances. We will consider qualified candidates with a criminal history in a manner consistent with the requirements of all Federal, state and local laws. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.  

Reasonable accommodations are available upon request. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.    

• Advanced degree in social work, social welfare, marriage, family and child counseling, counseling psychology, or social psychology or three years of equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with and experience working within the frameworks of harm reduction, stages of change, and motivational interviewing to work with clients.
• An interest in being part of an interdisciplinary team with attorneys to support clients.
• An interest in issues pertaining to homelessness, economic justice, disability, and social determinants of health.
• Comfortable working in a variety of environments, including SRO Hotels, shelters, and health clinics, and environments with pets as the majority of our clients have dogs as support animals.  
• Commitment to complying with all BayLegal funding requirements, and firm standards, policies, and practices.
• Current proficiency, and ability to improve proficiency, in technological equipment, hardware, and software necessary to perform duties of the position. 
• Must be fully vaccinated or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccination by date of hire and be fully vaccinated to be considered. Proof of vaccination required.
• Humility in working with colleagues and clients, and individuals of all identities, experiences, and perspectives.
• Excellent verbal, client interviewing, and organizational skills.
• Strong personal work ethic and ability to organize time, manage diverse activities, and meet critical deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with a dynamic team.
• Curious and self-directed with an ability to anticipate what needs to be done.
• Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects while maintaining a firm grasp of individual project details.

• Licensure (e.g., LCSW, LMFT) or progress towards licensure (e.g., ASW, MFT Intern or Trainee).
• In-depth knowledge of, and experience with, social services agencies, housing support services, and behavioral health providers in San Francisco County.
• Experience working in a variety of settings in the field with individuals with physical and mental health disabilities, survivors of domestic violence, and those impacted by complex trauma and homelessness.