Mental Health Case Manager

MISSION STATEMENT :

To be a beacon of light by transforming lives in the Vincentian spirit of charity, justice, and mercy through interpersonal connectivity.

SUMMARY :

The Mental Health Case Manager will work with those individual clients that have been identified as having a mental illness that is proving to be a barrier for housing opportunities. The Mental Health Case Manager is to assess their identified needs and provide education, assistance, and advocacy in those areas. The position will also have supervisory duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES :

(These essential job functions are not to be construed as a complete statement of all duties performed. Employees will be required to perform other job-related duties as required. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s rights to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at this time). Meet the agency standards for attendance and punctuality, positive interactions with others, effective work habits, knowledge and skills, judgment, and ethics.

The specific expectations and essential duties of this position include :

• Conducts intake procedures for St. Vincent de Paul CARES Center Shelter Program
• Works with outside agencies to include community outreach teams and local police departments to receive referrals and access the family’s needs.
• Abide to the guidelines of the Pinellas County Homeless Leadership Boards Coordinated Entry System.
• Maintains documentation and records related to intake files.
• Facilitate a minimum of 2 life skills groups per week.
• Effectively links clients with appropriate community resources and advocates for client needs.
• Provides effective mental health assessments, therapeutic strategies, along with crisis management.
• Supervisory duties to include shelter coverage and operational duties.
• Works cooperatively with members of a larger treatment or service coordination team, either internally within the agency or externally in the larger community
• Effectively works with landlords and hotels.
• Is available to clients at all hours required by the program or contracts
• Other duties as assigned.

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES :

Employee Benefits :

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES :

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.)

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.)

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE :

(Pending on position and if prior to hire is approved by Chief Executive Officer, a comparable amount of training, education or experience may be substituted for the minimum education qualifications)

About St. Vincent de Paul CARES :

SVdP CARES is a non-profit organization committed to ending homelessness : making it rare, brief, and one-time.

With “Housing First” principles at the core, all SVdP CARES programs are built on the belief that everyone has the right to live in dignified and affordable housing with a healthy disregard for all community-perceived barriers to housing including employment history, criminal / credit background, mental health, addiction, or religious practices. SVdP CARES works to rapidly house those experiencing homelessness within 30 days and concurrently connect them to resources and stabilization support services to assist their needs.

SVdP CARES serves 19 counties across 7,678+ square miles of Florida including Charlotte, Citrus, Collier, Desoto, Hardee, Hernando, Highlands, Hillsborough, Lake, Lee, Manatee, Orange, Osceola, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, Seminole, and Sumter counties.

Everyone is welcome through our doors, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, ancestry, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, sexual orientation, and gender identity.