Housing Specialist for High-Risk Populations
6 days ago
Fraser Health is seeking a highly skilled Housing Consultant to lead the delivery of emergency, residential, and supported housing programs and services for high health risk populations. The successful candidate will provide leadership in planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of multi-year housing plans and services that meet the goals and objectives of the program.
Key Responsibilities- Develop and implement comprehensive multi-year supportive housing plans for high health risk populations, aligned with best practices and Fraser Health's strategic plan.
- Act as an intermediary between Fraser Health, non-profit societies, municipalities, and BC Housing to develop housing opportunities.
- Liaise with non-profit agencies and private service providers on specific housing projects and take a leadership role in initiating and supporting education opportunities for housing providers.
- Identify and develop service delivery/program priorities, standards, and policies for supportive housing for high health risk populations based on identified needs for new or changed services and best practices.
- Project future housing needs, priorities, and resource requirements, and coordinate quality improvement and risk management activities.
- Facilitate the implementation of approved modifications and evaluation of process effectiveness to ensure optimal use of organizational resources and safe delivery of client care.
- Monitor initiatives and take corrective action to ensure implementation strategies and services continue to operate efficiently and effectively.
- Identify, document, and follow-up on risk management and quality issues, and ensure appropriate processes are in place for responding.
- Participate in evaluative research initiatives, initiative planning, and evaluation activities, taking an interdisciplinary and consultative approach.
- Establish relationships with stakeholders to optimize the program and service access and flow.
- Ensure effective client access and flow within programs/services by incorporating standardization of practice, quality, and system effectiveness parameters.
- Collaborate with leaders to promote a seamless transition and innovative client-centred access and flow solution to programs/services.
- Develop and implement mitigation strategies, as needed, to correct gaps in access and flow to programs/services.
- Expedites the access and flow of clients by identifying the appropriate intake of clients between acute and community, and reviews referrals and assesses the status of clients and available resources.
- Monitors daily priorities related to access and flow, identifies barriers, and escalates appropriately.
- Ensures appropriate organizational structures and processes are in place to promote safe and timely client transitions throughout sites and into community.
- Collaborates with Fraser Health program leadership, BC Housing, and/or other partnerships to research and develop appropriate housing models and policy.
- Ensures supportive housing plans meet the needs of the community, and supports and builds on community capacity.
- Develops benchmarks and evaluation tools that measure supportive housing services performance indicators, including appropriate client and program indicators, consumer feedback, service delivery trends, emergent patterns, and innovations to support a quality improvement approach to supportive housing in keeping with Fraser Health frameworks.
- Develops processes for maintaining and enhancing the inclusion of consumers and their families in the planning and delivery of supportive housing services for high health risk populations, with special emphasis on ensuring inclusion of perspectives of population groups with unique needs.
- Ensures ongoing relevance and progress towards regional goals that are in keeping with the mandate of Fraser Health.
- Works collaboratively with BC Housing and other provincial and federal authorities and organizations to provide the resources and contacts necessary for sourcing and developing alternative housing models.
- Represents Fraser Health at various homelessness planning tables at the municipal and provincial level as appropriate.
- Liaises with the Ministry of Health regarding funding structures for housing models and keeps up to date on funding mechanisms and various approaches to providing housing to people with high health risks.
- Participates as a member of the Community Health Services teams in developing policy, priority setting, systems thinking, and strategic planning and resource allocation decisions as they relate to housing services.
- Consults with various Fraser Health leadership teams regarding housing initiatives that affect high health risk populations in the region and recommends appropriate strategies.
- Develops and maintains a database system to track high health risk population housing management information, extracts information to assist in program planning and evaluation, and prepares an annual high health risk populations Housing Report and/or other ad hoc reports.
- Develops and maintains liaisons with health care facilities, community organizations, and agencies, as well as, municipal, provincial, and federal government agencies regarding partnerships, funding opportunities, and service delivery.
Bachelor's Degree in Social Sciences or related discipline, plus a minimum five years in housing and policy development, analysis, and management of diverse non-profit community housing programs, preferably for high health risk populations.
COMPETENCIES: Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring, and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Professional/Technical Capabilities: Demonstrated knowledge of housing (supportive living) principles, best practices, and trends in not-for-profit community settings related to high health risk populations. Demonstrated knowledge of housing (supportive living) needs, services, and issues for high health risk populations. Demonstrated knowledge of the broad determinants of health. Demonstrated abilities in managing complex projects and programs. Knowledge of other health care disciplines and their role in health care. Ability to operate a PC and effectively utilize a variety of software applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, database, and e-mail. Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
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