Adult Targeted Mental Health Case Manager - Roots Wellness Center

Job Title: Adult Mental Health Targeted Case Manager

Reports To: Community Program Supervisor

Job Status: Full-time

Job Location: In-home, Hybrid

About RWC:

At Roots Wellness Center we treat co-occurring disorders through the lens of social justice. We believe that for many, chronic social Injustice fuels the cycle of illness, addiction, and pain.

Come and work for a company that is at the forefront of social justice, with a commitment to addressing racial and socioeconomic disparities in behavioral healthcare. We are on a mission to provide marginalized individuals and families with excellent clinical care and close the gap within marginalized communities.

Summary:

The role of the Adult MH-TCM is to help adults with serious and persistent mental illness with severe emotional disturbance gain access to medical, social, educational, vocational and other necessary services connected to the person's mental health needs. Targeted case management services include developing a functional assessment, an individual community support plan for an adult and an individual family community support plan. It also includes referring and linking the person to mental health and other services while ensuring coordination and monitoring of the delivery of services.

The Adult MH-TCM will support anti-oppressive/anti-racist practice, and trauma-responsive practice in all aspects of their interactions with staff, community, and company stakeholders through their administrative and operations support of program staff working on site and in community to address socioeconomic and health disparity. Comfort and proven experience and interest in working with staff with a range of identities including age, developmental and acquired disabilities, religion, spirituality, ethnicity, race, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, relationship structure, indigenous heritage, national origin, immigration status, and gender is required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Meet 28 face-to-face contacts per month, and fill extra time coordinating care for clients who are on civil commitment
• Coordinate integrated services and support necessary to assist each client as they work towards their goal of recovery.
• Partner with clients to develop an Individual Community Support Plan that identifies services and supports that will enable each client to live as independently in the community as possible or to develop an Individual Family Community Support Plan that identifies services and supports needed by the client and their family to improve the well-being of the child and improve family functioning.
• To the extent requested by the client, provide collaboration and education to significant others and family members who are interested in assisting the client in their recovery process
• Treat all clients with dignity and respect, providing services that are respectful of diagnosis, age, gender, and culture
• Assure that services are implemented as developed by the client, family and team as documented in the Individual Community Support Plan or Individual Family Community Support Plan, and that services are continuously monitored and evaluated.
• Assure that all changes in client status or needs are communicated through documentation.
• Participate in staff meetings and trainings
• Other related duties may be assigned

Qualifications/Experience:

• Mental health practitioner or hold a bachelor's degree in social work, psychology or human services related field from an accredited college or university and meets requirements for supervision and continuing education
• At least 2000 hours or more of supervised experience in the delivery of mental health services to adult
• A case manager without 2,000 hours of supervised experience in the delivery of services to adults with mental illness must:
• Receive clinical supervision regarding individual service delivery from a mental health professional at least one hour per week until the requirement of 2,000 hours of experience is met; and
• Complete 40 hours of training approved by the commissioner in case management skills and the characteristics and needs of adults with serious and persistent mental illness.
• Skilled in the process of identifying and assessing a wide range of recipient need
• Knowledgeable about local community resources and how to use those resources for the benefit of the recipient
• Without a bachelor's degree meets one of the following:
• Has 3 or 4 years of experience as a case manager associate
• Be an RN without bachelor's degree with 3 or more years combined specialized training in psychiatry and work experience consisting of community interaction and involvement or community discharge planning in a mental health setting totally three years OR
• Be a person who qualified as a case manager under the 1998 Department of Human Service waiver provision and meet the continuing education and mentoring requirements in this section.

Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to outdoor weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to talk or hear.

Bilingual, BIPOC, LBGQT folks are encouraged to apply!