Children's Case Manager

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Fulfill your purpose at CLM :

CLM provides the area's most comprehensive array of mental health services for children and their families. Our multi-disciplined treatment team works with individuals ages 3 - 21 who experience mental illness and / or serious emotional difficulties. The Children's Case Manager provides care planning, resource identification, benefit coordination, service monitoring, and community-based counseling support to assist clients with improving symptoms and behaviors that otherwise interfere with age-appropriate development, functioning and wellness goals. This is a full time, 40 hour per week position.

Major Functional Areas and Description of Duties

• Provide individual assessment to create care plans that specify presenting problems, objectives, interventions, and desired outcomes.
• Assist clients with applying for and maintaining adequate medical coverage to support consistent access to whole health care and treatment.
• Provide outreach, advocacy, coordination, resource identification, linkage and monitoring of internal and external supports and services.
• Provide counseling and Functional Support Services (FSS) in the home, school or other community-based setting as deemed appropriate for the objectives, interventions and desired outcomes identified in the client's treatment plan.
• Provide Individual Therapeutic Behavioral Services (TBSI) to develop, apply, and reinforce coping strategies to reduce and / or ameliorate symptoms and behaviors that interfere with functioning and goal achievement.
• Encourage engagement in and provide Family Training and Counseling (FTC) services to educate and promote how to best support the client's resiliency and recovery toward treatment goals.
• Provide Crisis Intervention (CI) when clients experience acute exacerbation of symptoms to ensure their safety within the home and / or community.
• Work collaboratively with other treatment team members, natural supports, and external providers to ensure a wrap-around family systems approach is provided to the client.
• Provideset case management contacts per month (eligible for incentive pay upon exceeding productivity expectation).
• Provide sethours of billable service each week to meet 20%of direct service key performance indicator expectation (eligible for incentive pay upon exceeding productivity expectation).
• Serve on appropriate committees, both internal and external, as determined by supervisor.
• Function professionally and in a manner that protects the integrity, confidentiality and rights of all patients.
• Execute all required services and timely documentation in accordance with agency policies and federal / state standards.
• Maintain professional memberships, licenses, accreditation, certifications, etc.
• Represent CLM in a professional and appropriate manner in all settings.
• Perform all other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions

The majority of the work will be office based and / or remote via telehealth. Some of the work will be visiting clients in the community and also in their homes. Manual dexterity is needed to use computers. The ability to sit for extended periods of time is required. Reliable transportation, a clean driving record, and proof of auto insurance coverage is required.

Benefits

At Center for Life Management we offer a robust benefits package because caring for our staff is just as important as caring for our clients. Benefits for benefits eligible employees include :

The Center for Life Management has partnered with New England College to offer a Master's Degree! This is an exciting opportunity for CLM staff to earn a Master of Science in Clinical Mental Health Counseling (MS) degree in 3 years.

Who's Eligible and What's Required :

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Requirements

Salary Description

26.00 per hour plus eligible for incentive pay