Blended Case Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we’re here to create real change – helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we’re looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives – including your own. You’ll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

Responsibilities

Elwyn is seeking Blended Case Managers to provide outreach to individuals, within their home setting, who have serious and persistent mental illness. A key component of this position is to work with individuals to access, link, coordinate and monitor needed services as well as provide support and advocacy. The primary goal of these services is to maintain the individual within the least restrictive setting to achieve a level of independence and mental health stability while remaining linked to all necessary service providers. Documentation is an important component of this role assuring the writing is person centered and demonstrates work toward goals as based on the service/treatment plan.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Preparing and maintaining timely, accurate, and complete records
• Participating as a "team" member to improve the overall effectiveness of one's work group and to achieve group goals
• Ensures interventions and supports are delivered in a way that incorporates consistency, flexibility, and responsiveness to changing client needs.
• Involves clients in identifying and coordinating treatment issues.
• Empowers clients through therapeutic rapport, advocacy, and skill building.
• Exhibits proficiency with benefit and entitlement options to maximize treatment planning opportunities.
• Coordinates emergency psychiatric services within a timely manner, including documenting interventions, alternatives considered, and response of client/client family, and supporting agencies.

QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree preferred in Human Services field, such as social work, psychology, child development, special education, rehabilitative counseling, or closely related field, is required.
• A commitment to community-based mental health services
• Experience with case management strongly encouraged but not required
• Computer literacy required
• Knowledge of non-violent crisis intervention principles and practices
• Knowledge of the cognitive and behavioral aspects of mental illness
• Must possess a current, valid driver's license in state of residence, have a minimum of two (2) years of driving experience within the United States, and have an acceptable driving record