JJ Case Manager

Description

• Develop, implement and monitor plans of care for the target population.
• Coordinate and link services between the CMO, youth and family and providers to best serve the youth's and families' needs.
• Advocate for the youth and family's needs.
• Provide family and individual counseling in the youth's environment (home, foster home, residential placement, etc.) when appropriate.
• Performs on-call crisis intervention services via telephone or face-to-face with youth and families as needed.
• Assures that Vista Maria policies, practices and standards of operations comply with all pertinent local, state and federal regulations, along with company's accrediting body.
• Contact family members, schools, and other agencies within the community to ensure that the support systems are in place to provide assistance to Vista Maria youth and families.
• Coordinates services by utilizing a wraparound approach.
• Participates in initial and ongoing training with respect to structured decision-making instruments and solution focused therapy.
• Document all face to face, telephone and email contacts with client families and their various service providers in the Wayne County juvenile justice database.
• Provide 24 hours a day, 7 days a week case management coverage.
• To facilitate attendance with behavioral health, the case manager will maintain frequent communication with the CMH psychotherapist and/or SUD psychotherapist to facilitate consistent attendance for therapy sessions and medication review appointments with the CMH agency's psychiatrist.
• Enhance continuity of services with multiple providers to ensure health needs, safety issues, legal, DHHS, and other pertinent issues are addressed.
• Monthly/weekly monitoring of all services provided to youth and their families
• Coordinate care with other internal and community-based treatment services
• Responsible for meeting direct service productivity and documentation standards per agency and program expectations.
• Maintain youth case record, prepare reports and correspondence with professionalism, in a timely manner
• Other tasks and responsibilities, as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES
• Knowledge of individual and family therapeutic interventions based on solution-focused, strength-based clinical models.
• Ability to work effectively on a treatment team.
• A fundamental understanding of mental illness, substance use disorder and developmental disability and the functional impairment that they may cause.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, sociology, criminal justice or related field from a fully accredited college and/or university.
• Two (2) years of experience working with population and their families.
• Ability to work flexible hours, which may include some evenings and weekends.
• Access to personal vehicle.
• Valid driver's license, insurance and registration.

Preferred

• Master's degree in social work, psychology, sociology, criminal justice or related field from a fully accredited college and/or university.
• Four (4) years of experience working with population and their families.
• Limited or full state of Michigan licensure.

Minimum Required