Medical Advocate
Medical Advocate
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16-03-2025
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Job Description
Benefits:
- 403(b)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
Crisis Center for South Suburbia
About us!
The Crisis Center for South Suburbia is a nonprofit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence and addresses the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence.
Today the Crisis Center for South Suburbia operates a 54bed emergency shelter and has annual impact on the lives of more than 10000 people. With a staff of more than 83 employees and a budget of over seven million dollars the Crisis Center continues to grow while offering free services to Chicagos south suburban communities.
Why Us
In both service provision and fundraising we maintain the highest professional and personal ethical standards. We respect the diversity of the individuals we work with and serve. Each persons contributions are valued as we work together cooperatively with open communication. We continually evaluate the effectiveness of our services with established channels for feedback and accountability. We believe in teamwork individual excellence and accountability.
We embrace a history founded in creating equity we take our principles seriously by courageously committing to a culture and workplace where all staff feel safe welcome visible respected supported and valued.
We offer competitive salaries health dental vision & life insurance 403B matching flexible schedules opportunity for advancement paid time off wellness resources training and development performancebased bonuses and more.
As an equal opportunity employer we encourage people of varied races ethnicities national origins tribes religions ages gender identities and expressions genders sexual orientations marital statuses disabilities veteran/reserve national guard statuses socioeconomic statuses thinking and communication styles to work with us.
Across our agency we are working together to support the lifechanging mission of ending domestic violence for individuals and families with the transformational impact of lives without abuse.
SUMMARY:
Responsible for providing outreach and building relationships with other hospitals for the Medical Advocacy Program. Provide domestic violence education and training to hospital professionals and medical staff as part of the medicalbased domestic violence prevention and intervention program. Responsible for providing medical advocacy coverage when needed at hospitals and other medical facilities. The Medical Advocate will uphold the Mission & Values of the Crisis Center for South Suburbia.
Specific duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Provide consistent direct client service and caring crisis intervention as needed in the course of providing medical advocacy services to clients.
Conduct routine domestic violence screenings of patients in the Emergency Department as well as other participating departments in the hospital; consult regularly with hospital teams to review cases and coordinate calls and followup as appropriate.
Provide oncall coverage for assigned and rotating shifts as part of the hospital crisis response.
Provide domestic violence education and training to hospital professionals and medical staff:
Participate in the development and presentation of training and workshops on domestic violence to hospital personnel and offsite providers.
Provide targeted outreach to hospital teams and departments in order to increase referrals consultation and training requests and awareness of patients affected by domestic violence.
Organizational/Administrative responsibilities:
Meet regularly with Director Support Services to review program activity and services issues including a routine review of service documentation and other program information to assure compliance with program standards and service goals.
Other duties as assigned.
Responsible for providing outreach and building relationships with other hospitals:
Set up and conduct meetings with key individuals at hospitals that are interested in becoming part of the Program.
Participate in the development and presentations of the Medical Advocacy Program to hospitals that are interested in being part of the Program.
Track and maintain accurate records of Program statistics.
Submit monthly reports as required by program standards.
Compensation: $20.00 $22.00 per hour
The Crisis Center for South Suburbia has been providing hope and services to victims of domestic violence for over 40 years through housing counseling advocacy outreach and prevention programs. We are a nonprofit community organization that provides emergency shelter and other essential services for individuals and families victimized by domestic violence and addresses the societal issues that contribute to domestic violence. With a staff of more than 50 employees and a budget of over four million dollars the Crisis Center continues to grow while offering free services to Chicagos south suburban communities.
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