Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana is seeking a full-time Client Advocate to provide psychosocial services to our clients and their families. CSNI maintains an exceptional, client-driven culture designed to meet the individual needs of the whole person while building a community of support. The Client Advocates at CSNI are central to our mission and work closely as a team to provide seamless service, access to resources, and profoundly meaningful support and interventions.
Supported By: Director of Individual and Family Care
Interests & Abilities:
- Being a central force in improving the lives of people with cancer and their families.
· Genuinely committing to being with people in their pain and their joys with compassionate attentiveness.
- Valuing building and sustaining healthy collaboration, communication, and contribution with your team.
- Knowing you are well supported during challenging work and have others on whom you can mutually rely.
· Exhibiting for yourself, and supporting others in, excellent boundaries and self-care strategies
· Providing care according to the client’s need without concern for productivity numbers, direct service requirements, the demands of insurance companies, or being paid per session.
· Providing services at low or no cost due to the generous support of the community.
· Developing a unique specialty expressly appreciated as meeting a need others cannot.
· Working in a peaceful, although busy, environment that encourages clients to authentically present themselves.
· At the end of every day, being deeply sure that you have made a difference in the well-being of individuals, families, your team, and the community because of your professional efforts.
Advocacy Responsibilities:
- Assess client needs, utilize agency resources to meet needs, and/or refer to appropriate resources
· Provide personal and emotional support to clients and their families
· Educate clients on programs and services of the agency, and encourage their participation
· Oversee dispensing of tangible goods and accessing services over the course of the cancer experience
· Build and maintain the caring relationship with clients by providing periodic, designated follow-ups
· Accurately document interactions and services for good internal communication and accountability to funders
· Acquire and maintain understanding of cancer, treatments, side effects and the needs of people with cancer
· Flexibility to adapt to other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Minimum of bachelor's degree in social work, human services, or similar field.
- Experience with and appreciation of generalist psychosocial service delivery preferred.
- Ability to build rapport with a diverse range of foundations and backgrounds.
Cancer Services seeks to be an inclusive employer and encourages resumes and applications from people of diverse backgrounds. Client Advocates will be expected to work within typical weekday business hours at our Fort Wayne office.
Salary range: $47,000 to $52,000 per year. Paid time-off, paid holidays, and a full range of benefits are offered.
To apply for this position, please email cover letter with salary requirements and resume to
Liz Fenimore at [email protected] .
Pay: $47,000.00 - $52,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
