Arkansas CARES Case Manager / Qualified Behavioral Health Provider (QBHP)

We are seeking a compassionate, engaging, and organized individual to join our Arkansas CARES team in Little Rock. The Case Manager / QBHP provides mental health and substance abuse skills-based interventions and supports to pregnant and parenting women admitted to the Arkansas CARES program. The person who accepts this position needs to be an excellent communicator, self-motivated, flexible, and demonstrate patience with others. Interventions are provided 1 : 1 or in groups with women and their children, as well as assist in coordinating community support services for the women and children. Under the supervision and direction of the Program Coordinator or designee, the Case Manager / Qualified Behavioral Health Provider (QBHP) will provide case management services and mental health and substance abuse interventions to the clients in the Arkansas CARES program. The interventions provided may occur in the residential program, clinic or community environments.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Work directly with pregnant and parenting women with identified substance abuse and mental health issues one-to-one and in small groups.
• Actively participate as a member of the client's treatment team providing pertinent input regarding client concerns, progress, etc.
• Lead skills-based intervention groups using curriculums that focus on life skills development (ex. coping, goal setting, accountability, budgeting, parenting, employment seeking, etc.) to support their substance abuse and mental health treatment goals.
• Coordinate and assist clients with scheduling and transportation for appointments with community support services / organizations to obtained needed resources (ex. food stamps, TEA, WIC, social security, foodbanks, diaper drives, local school or daycare enrollment, etc.) to assist clients in independent living.
• Work collaboratively with client's network of supports and other types of providers involved with the client to improve clients' chances of positive outcomes in treatment (ex. family members, probation / parole officers, DHS case workers, ministers, care coordinators and other community agencies and organizations)
• Provide clinical and behavioral interventions as outlined in a client's treatment plan and guided and supervised by the treating therapist, to assist the client in resolving or improving symptoms of substance abuse and mental health disorders, that are disrupting the client's ability to function daily physically, emotionally, socially, and / or

employment / work. Interventions must be individualized, can take place one-on-one, in a group setting with peers or with the family or with the parents / caregivers of the client.

Qualifications :

Additional Mandatory Requirements :

Other : The individual employed in this position may accept other reasonable assignments, which may be necessary, for efficient operation of assigned programs as there is time and opportunity.

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

Level One - Full Access :

Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure. "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians).

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