Description

• Ensure that each client is receiving appropriate and effective case management services
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop comprehensive service plans that identify mutually agreed upon long and short-term goals.
• Conduct face-to-face contacts (home visits/office visits) as specified in the service plan(s); with a minimum of one home visit per month and one contact per week.
• Provide assistance in accessing primary medical care; assistance with adherence to medication regimens; teach activities for daily living; nutritional services; recreation programs; assistance in employment assessments, training, and private sector placement services; prevention with positives; and other necessary services to clients to increase their capacity for independent living. 
• Review the case management service plans and conduct reassessments on a quarterly basis to ensure that services are appropriate for the clients’ current needs.
• Provide crisis intervention to clients as needed.
• Maintain ongoing awareness of clients’ medical conditions so that services are appropriate to changing needs.
• Arrange support and home health care services as necessary, making referrals to medical, home care, mental health and/or substance abuse services
• Ensure that clients pay the balance of their rent, telephone and utility bills.
• Provide counseling and orientation regarding tenant’s rights and responsibilities to maintain and retain housing.
• Assist clients in moving from hospitals, nursing homes, or other locations into their apartments, and provide transportation when necessary.
•  Case managers will provide advocacy & referrals to employment programs for training and job placement in the private sector with consultation with clinical supervisors.
• Assist clients in locating alternative housing options, when a client’s health so requires.
• Provide and coordinate all supportive services as needed.
• Collaborate with all providers within and outside of Comunilife involved with the client/family. Coordinate and collaborate with OMH personnel as required.
• Maintain regular personal contact, developing a trusting working relationship with clients in order to monitor physical and emotional capacity for independent living.
• Maintain and complete required documentation including all contacts made with the client and any contact on their behalf.
• Participate in weekly supervision.
• Submit a weekly schedule of field visits.
• Participate in mandated training workshops, seminars, and case presentations as well as meetings with peers and supervisors.
• Participate in discharge planning with hospital staff for a hospitalized client(s).
• Provide escort services as needed to medical or mental health services. 
•  Provide support and education to the client on budgeting to meet financial obligations.
• On-going assessments of client's living environment.
• Perform any other duty as assigned by the clinical supervisor or the Program Director.

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