Child and Adolescent Case Manager II

What is Case Management at Washburn Center for Children?

Washburn Center's case managers work collaboratively with families and across multi disciplines internally, to develop a care plan and ensure access to needed services, including mental, social, educational, health, vocational and recreational assistance. Our case managers advocate on behalf of the child and family's needs and coordinate care across multiple providers. These services are provided for children age 3 through 17.

What can Washburn Center offer you?

Washburn Center for Children is committed to all our employee's professional development. During your time at Washburn Center, you will receive continuous clinical training, increased supervision time and exposure to a wide array of clinical needs. Case Management is a unique field which will provide you with an expansive understanding of family mental health. As such this role is well suited for Social Work experienced individuals or Mental Health qualified Professionals. Additionally, this role is a highly collaborative function, and you will experience exposure to all programs at Washburn Center and work in collaboration with the various experienced professionals at Washburn to ensure the best care for the children and families in your care.

The Case Manager II is actively present in the community and home life of the client. We encourage independent working for all our Case Managers to allow for the best client care and services.

At Washburn Center for Children, we are committed to provide culturally based, individualized targeted Children's Mental Health Case Management to children/students and families in their home, schools and community based on each family's needs.

Responsibilities:

• As a Case Manager, you will be managing a caseload of 17-18 children or youth and their families with all client service expectations that accompanies this caseload.
• You will coordinate mental health and other health related services. The purpose of this involvement in the child and family's life is to improve or maintain child/students emotional and behavioral functioning at home and in the community, to help the family access needed resources for the child including obtaining or maintaining third-party insurance or Medical Assistance coverage, and to reduce the risk of out-of-home placement, risk of maltreatment, or the need for protective services.
• You will be expected to complete timely documentation and planning including Individual Family Community Support Plans, Progress Notes and case management authorizations.

Day to day activities:
Treatment - Case Managers will provide services to educate and support families to become empowered to better self-advocate and navigate the various systems with more confidence and skill, as well as the following services:

• Assessment for your clients you will complete a functional assessment of the medical, social, educational, and other services and resources the child will need to address their mental health needs.
• Service Plan Development. You will be developing an Individual Family Community Support Plan (IFCSP) based on the functional assessment and diagnosis.
• Dependent on each individual case you will Refer, Coordinate and Monitor Services

**All clinicians are to ensure Minnesota and HIPAA data privacy requirements are followed.**

Why work in our Case Management Program? Learn more here!

• Master’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Marriage and Family or other human service field, required
• Must maintain or be working towards independent licensure; licensure as LICSW, LP, LPCC, or LMFT strongly preferred
• If candidate has a Master’s in Social Work, valid licensure as an LGSW is required
• A minimum of one year of experience working with mental health compromised children and families
  
• Flexibility, resourcefulness, and demonstrated cultural responsiveness when working with diverse populations, specifically those impacted by systemic inequality
• Must have vehicle in operating condition, a valid driver’s license, and car insurance is required
  
• Fluency in both English and Spanish is strongly preferred