Behavioral Health Case Manager

Chisago County Health and Human Services, Center City, MN has a full-time (40 hours per week) County Agency Social Worker - Behavioral Health Case Manager vacancy. Provide case management, care coordination, and employment support for individuals identified as meeting Rule 79 case management eligibility. Utilize competencies in mental health, child welfare, addiction, vocational readiness and rehabilitation, and disability services. Position will be focused on mental health but will be expected to work in a multidisciplinary capacity, providing services in an integrated fashion. Responsibilities Interviews clients at intake. Carries a caseload where a need for continuing social casework predominates. Provides counseling to families and individuals. Conducts complex case evaluation for the purpose of assessing problems and determining appropriate types and methods of treatment. Prepares intensive long or short-term treatment plans, which require a fund of casework knowledge. Identifies client situations, which require intensified service and brings to the attention of supervisor for help or referral. Provides adult and child protective services. Provides vocation/employment services. Provides adult and children's mental health services and services to persons with disabilities. Provides or assists in providing services to other cases involving difficult or complex social and financial problems. Interprets programs to clients, refers clients to appropriate community services. Interprets social and emotional factors to others involved in treatment of clients. Prepares social histories with emphasis on psychosocial factors, adoption, or foster home placements. Supervises foster home placements. Interviews and screens prospective adoptive parents. Provides preventive services. Interprets policies and regulations to clients. Provides casework services for rehabilitation and care of children. Prepares and maintains case records which meet federal, state and local guidelines. Dictates findings and correspondence. Prepares regular and special reports. May provide work direction to social work para-professionals. Participates in in-service training and other staff development activities to increase knowledge of social work processes and skill in application to individual cases. Minimum Qualifications A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in social work, psychology, sociology or closely related field. A bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university with a major in any field and one year of experience as a social worker in a public or private social services agency. Preferred Qualifications A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university with a major in social work with a supervised field placement providing case management services to individuals and families. A master's or bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university with a major in psychology, sociology or closely related field, one to three years of experience in a human services setting. A master's degree in social work from an accredited college/university with a supervised field placement providing case management and/or counseling services to individuals and families. Continuing Education Requirement The incumbent must participate in a minimum of 15 hours per year of continuing education or in-service training as outlined in Minn. Stat. 626.559 as well as training required to follow MN Rule 79. Additional Notes Mental Health Professional licensure is not required. Benefits Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, PERA, optional Deferred Compensation plans, vacation accrual, sick accrual, holiday pay, and Monday-Friday work week. An Equal Opportunity and Affinneative Action Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr Minnesota Merit System