House Manager

House Manager

Job Category: Residential

Schedule: Saturday - Wednesday; 8:00 am - 4:30 pm

Location: Uptown, 60640

Description

The House Manager provides oversight and takes responsibility for clients living in the residential program during their shift and will collaborate with the Team Leader and Manager in addressing needs of the Residential Program. They will provide direct clinical services to clients in order to assist with independent living skills, crisis management, medication management, and symptom management. The House Manager will communicate essential client information to their supervisor, providers, specialists, Trilogy staff involved in client's care, and residential employees during their shift and at shift change. The House Manager will have strong engagement skills to develop relationships with clients in order to maintain stable housing. They will provide client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use utilizing a harm reduction approach.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with clients regarding case management needs, training in independent living skills, and provide individual/group services or crisis intervention as needed.
• Provide recovery focused clinical services to residential clients to assist with independent living (i.e. personal hygiene, housekeeping skills, unit inspections, nutrition, cooking, grocery shopping, etc.) with the goal of living in the least restrictive environment for each person.
• Utilize motivational interviewing skills to engage clients around their current substance use
• Engage with clients to develop relationships to support them in building their own goals and maintaining stable housing
• Model for client's good communication skills, recovery-oriented living skills, effective coping skills, and self-help strategies
• Assist clients in identifying signs and symptoms of de-compensation. Work collaboratively with clients to identify coping skills to assist in managing symptoms and stressors experienced.
• Provide de-escalation and crisis management for clients during the shift.
• Collaborate with team members, prescribers, and other Trilogy staff to deliver quality service and effective interventions on behalf of the clients.
• Provide psychoeducation, medication training and monitoring to clients according to Trilogy policy.
• Coordinate with team nurse/provider/pharmacy to ensure client medication accuracy.
• Maintain documentation and charts to ensure compliance with Medicaid, Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Services (CARF), HUD, funding bodies, and organization standards.
• Ensure the completion of routine safety drills in accordance with policies, procedures, and guidelines
• Assist clients with completing budgets to build and maintain positive financial choices
• Document all services provided to clients in electronic health record during shift
• Educate and assist clients with applying for entitlements as needed; i.e. Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, and LINK
• Support with re-certification of annual leases and gathering documents for clients to maintain housing
• Support in planning and organization of groups, special activities, and outings that meet the needs and goals of the clients
• Attend team meetings to collaborate and make effective plans for supporting clients with their recovery and to develop plans that address needs in the home
• Attend department meetings to stay compliant with team updates and trainings.
• Perform other related duties and/or projects as assigned

Qualifications

• Must have one of the following requirements:
• High School Diploma or GED and two years of supervised clinical experience in a mental health setting.
• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in any field.
• Must be 21 years of age and demonstrates all of the following:
• Skill in the delivery of rehabilitative services to adults
• The ability to work within a provider agency's structure and accept supervision
• The ability to work constructively with individuals receiving services, other providers of service, and the community; or an individual qualified as a Peer Support Worker
• Experience working with people with mental health and/or substance abuse diagnoses preferred
• Experience in residential-based harm reduction services preferred

Benefits

• FREE Virtual Primary Care, Urgent Care, and Mental Health Counseling for ALL Employees
• PAID Maternity/Paternity leave
• Medical Insurance (BCBS of IL)
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Long-Term & Short-Term Disability
• Pet Insurance
• FSA (Health, Dependent Care, Transit)
• Telemedicine
• EAP
• 403(b) Retirement Plan with Employer Match

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