Case Manager (VRS - WeCARE)

Case Manager

The Case Manager is responsible for developing and monitoring comprehensive participant service plans in collaboration with assigned participants. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, internal and external referrals for services to stabilize medical and mental health conditions, barrier removal, job readiness coaching, job placement assistance, and retention services.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Initiate services for participants following their clinical assessment or clinical reassessment, providing orientation to services, explaining their rights and responsibilities, and answering questions.
• Develop and monitor wellness plans on behalf of participants with untreated or unstable medical and/or mental health conditions adversely impacting employability. This includes coordinating referrals to community-based medical and mental health providers.
• Regularly meet with assigned participants to monitor progress and compliance with wellness plans, as well as to assist with mitigating barriers to employment. These include, but are certainly not limited to housing, domestic violence, childcare, transportation, and reasonable accommodations.
• Conduct regular phone follow-up appointments with participants to assess progress toward wellness plan goals.
• Outreach to participants who have failed to comply with mandatory appointments and other program requirements to successfully re-engage them with their wellness services.
• Communicate with external medical and mental health providers to ensure participant compliance and timely completion of wellness plans.
• Provide intensive individual coaching for participants in job search activities and assist participants with issues pertaining to work-related and transitional benefits.
• Case conference with other WeCARE service providers on an as needed basis, including vocational evaluators, work readiness and computer instructors, job placement coordinators, job preparation counselors and WEP specialists.
• Document participant services and activities in Fedcap and HRA management information systems, including, but not limited to SEAMS and FedcapCARES.

You're a great fit for this role if you have:

• Bachelor's degree in social work or related field, such as psychology, vocational rehabilitation, or occupational rehabilitation. MSW or master's degree in a related field preferred.
• One (1) year of case management or related experience.
• Bilingual (English Spanish) preferred.

$23.08-$24.04/hr.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Required Skills

• Case Management

About Us

Mission: We are committed to improving the economic and social well-being of the impoverished and disadvantaged. For 85 years, The Fedcap Group has developed scalable, innovative and potentially disruptive solutions to some of society's most pressing needs. The Fedcap Group is the parent company of a growing number of top-tier nonprofit agencies dedicated to serving over 300,000 children and adults each year across the United States and the United Kingdom. The Fedcap Group provides educational services to every age group, vocational training in high-growth labor industries, behavioral health services, work readiness skill-building and jobs—all targeted to helping people achieve long-term self-sufficiency. The work of The Fedcap Group is structured within four major practice areas: Education, Workforce Development, Occupational Health and Economic Development, which are strategically aligned for maximum impact. The Fedcap Group also invests its time and resources in broader systems change—working in partnership with federal, state and local government to improve the way services are designed, funded and delivered.

Job Info

• Job Identification 103104
• Job Category Human Services
• Degree Level Bachelor's Degree
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations 1 Edgewater Street, Staten Island, NY, 10305, US