Nevada Legal Services (NLS) strengthens communities across Nevada by ensuring fairness and providing equal access to justice. We are a non-profit legal aid organization providing free legal services to low income people in every county in Nevada and have an opening in our Reno Office for a Social Worker.

Through a new initiative in Washoe County, we are spearheading a holistic lawyering project in Washoe County to help unhoused and low-income individuals and families. Legal services clients often have more than just legal issues and often have complex problems with health, housing, and social environments, along with a multitude of other challenges. Through this initiative we will start a collaboration of social workers with legal services providers. The social worker will perform intake and outreach, assess clients for social and other non-legal needs, and provide necessary social work services on behalf of our clients. The social worker will work collaboratively with a paralegal under the supervision of a senior attorney in the project.

We provide paid sick and vacation time, medical, dental, vision and life insurance. The salary for the position is $30,000-$48,000 depending on experience for a 34 hour work week.

Requirements:

• Fluency in a non-English language preferred. Fluency and competency in spoken and written Spanish a plus.
• High level verbal and written skills.
• Experience with Adobe, Outlook, Word and Excel. Ability to learn electronic case management systems quickly and efficiently.
• Conduct client intake and assessments, collaborate with paralegal and perform and manage outreach in the community.
• Applicants must have an interest and passion for helping low-income Nevadans, seniors, veterans, and other communities in need in Washoe County.
• Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work collaboratively with a diverse team.
• Ability to work independently, handle changes or unexpected events, and establish cordial working relationships with courts and administrative personnel, coworkers, service providers, and clients.
• Capability to work with low-income clients from diverse backgrounds, including clients with physical and mental disabilities and clients with limited English proficiency.
• Travel to meet with clients or conduct community outreach and education required.
• Follow all requirements of the Nevada Legal Services Personnel and Case Management Manuals regarding timely completion of timesheets, mileage reimbursements, and other administratively required documents as well as maintaining cases in accordance with our case handling standards.