Child/Adolescent Case Manager

Child/Adolescent Case Manager

Pay starting from $21.00-24.00 commensurate with education and experience
Job Type: Full Time (40 hours per week)

Overview
Case Managers will provide quality case management services to youth with a severe emotional disturbance (SED). The majority of the Case Manager's time will be spent providing services to youth in the educational setting, home, or other community settings.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide quality, strengths based case management services to SED children and families. See CPST and TCM services descriptions below.
• Ability to work professionally and in conjunction with other mental health center staff.
• To assure that referrals for case management services are acted upon timely, typically within 3 business days of referral.
• To assure that clients will be assessed via the strengths/needs assessment tool.
• To assure timely completion, documentation, and/or submission of service notes, assessments, and data reporting within agency required timeline.
• Ability to meet monthly client engagement expectations in accordance with the level of care system.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule, as needed, to meet client needs and meet necessary work responsibilities.
• To complete training requirements as necessary for provision case management and additional Rehabilitation Services, as determined by supervisor and KDADS.
• To serve in the after hours crisis on call rotation 4-5 times a year in accordance with SRMHW's policy.
• Other duties as assigned.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or be equivalently qualified through a combination of related work experience and education, with one year of experience substituting for one year of education.
• Meet specifications outlined by KDADS licensing policy. Completion of background checks, drug screening process, and motor vehicle record check.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Familiarity with mental health theory and practice and ability to relate a positive approach to complex mental health issues.
• Effective interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate both orally and in writing.
• Computer proficiency to use electronic health record and other information systems.
• Ability to establish therapeutic relationships with clients and effective working relationships and community agencies.

Spring River Mental Health & Wellness, Inc. Benefits

403(b) Retirement Plan with employer matching
Paid Time Off
8 Company Paid Holidays
Employee Fitness Center Membership
Health Insurance
Life & Disability Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Flexible Spending Account Crisis On Call Pay
Employee Assistance Program
Professional Development Assistance

Community Psychiatric Support and Treatment (CPST)

• Definition: Goal directed supports and solution-focused intervention intended to achieve identified goals or objectives as set forth in the individualized treatment plan. CPST is a face-to-face intervention with the client present; however, family or other collaterals may also be involved. The majority of CPST contacts must occur in community locations where the child lives, attends, and/or socializes.
• Components
• A. Assist the client and family members or other collaterals to identify strategies or treatment options associated with the client's mental illness, with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of mental illness symptoms or emotional disturbances or associated environmental stressors which interfere with the client's daily living, financial management, housing, academic and/or employment progress, personal recovery or resilience, family and/or interpersonal relationships, and community integration.
• B. Individual supportive counseling, solution focused intervention, emotional and behavioral management, and problem behavior analysis with the client, with the goal of assisting the client with developing and implementing social, interpersonal, self care, daily living and independent living skills to restore stability, to support functional gains, and to adapt to community living.
• C. Participation in and utilization of strengths based planning and treatments which include assisting the client and family members or other collaterals with identifying strengths and needs, resources, natural supports and developing goals and objectives to utilize personal strengths, resources, and natural supports to address functional deficits associated with their mental illness.
• D. Assist the client with effectively responding to or avoiding identified precursors or triggers that would risk their remaining in a natural community location, including assisting the client and family members or other collaterals with identifying a potential psychiatric or personal crisis, developing a crisis management plan and/or as appropriate, seeking other supports to restore stability and functioning.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Work Location: In person