Case Manager - Behavioral Health FSP

Primary Duties:

• Provide targeted case management and mental health services to selected members, linking them with all appropriate community services and working with other service providers.
• Work as a team with psychiatrist and other inter/intra agency staff to provide consistent services.
• Conduct independent living skills and recovery oriented groups as scheduled weekly.
• Provide intensive crisis intervention services twenty-four hours, 7 days a week to members at risk of hospitalization and /or incarceration in an effort to avert hospitalization and /or incarceration.
• Maintain contact with member’s family and/or significant other support persons as appropriate.
• Maintain at least weekly scheduled case management service meeting with all assigned members on caseload.
• Maintain a UOS log on a daily basis, documenting all services to be billed and attaching the progress notes for these services. Service codes and time billed must be consistent on the UOS log and progress note. Documentation is to be completed and submitted in a timely manner.
• Involve members in all aspects of the services they receive as partners, providing them with choices and with opportunities for empowerment whenever possible.
• Ensure members are involved in establishing goals in the areas of living arrangements, social relationships, constructive use of leisure time, productive activity, and dental and medical care.
• Develop annual and six-month service plan aimed toward recovery based on members established Coordination Plan cycle dates.
• Bill at least four to six hours of services daily as instructed by supervisor.
• Prepare for weekly clinical staff meetings by having current information on the status of all assigned members.
• Track members’ medication to ensure that they are medication compliant and that they have an adequate supply of medication at all times.
• Provide mental health rehabilitation services, such as, counseling, money management, social skills training, and other independent living skills as needed by assigned members.
• On an ongoing basis, complete all Rehab Option, Outcomes study and other paperwork within prescribed time frames.
• coordinate with the Money Management Specialist to assist client’s in obtaining or restoring social security &/or other entitlement program benefits as appropriate. Work as a team with the Money Management Specialist and client to support and develop money management plans and skill building activities.
• Assist residents with completion of weekly grocery shopping, household chores, and other independent living skills as required and other duties assigned.