Care Navigator

If you would like an opportunity to join a team of dedicated professionals who work hard to provide maximum opportunities for offenders to make lasting changes through accountability, treatment, education, and positive reinforcement within a safe environment, this is the job for you.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Utah Department of Health & Human Services, Division of Correctional Health Services, is seeking a Care Navigator (Caseworker II) to join our team of skilled professionals. We provide evidence-based, individualized interventions to safely stabilize a wide range of mental health issues and help individuals maintain their best level of functioning while in custody. 

Our goal is to develop and carry out high quality, evidence based programs aimed at improving individual outcomes and enhancing community safety by implementing strategies, promoting accountability, and strengthening partnerships while maintaining a positive work environment.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Licensure as a Social Service Worker or Certified Substance Use Disorder Counselor or working towards getting their licensure.

• My underfill as a certified case manager

• Experience working with substance use disorder and/or mental health treatment

• Experience teaching educational classes

• Experience in case management principles

• Effective speaking, reading, and written communication skills

• Knowledge of risk assessments and criminogenic risk factors

• Familiar with medication treatment for opioid use and other substance use disorders

These are examples of an ideal candidate but do not preclude other candidates from being considered.

PREFERENCE:

•  May be given to candidates who hold current Licensure as a Social Service Worker or Certified Substance Use Disorder Counselor or are working towards getting their licensure.

Why work for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services?  Check out the rich benefits  the State of Utah offers.

For more information on the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, please click here or for Correctional Health Services, please click here.

If offered this position, your employment will be contingent upon passing a background check and drug testing.  There will be no cost to you for these checks.  This check will include fingerprinting, which will be available at various DHHS locations for your convenience and drug testing at a facility close to your location.  Fingerprinting will be completed prior to your first day of employment.  

• Coordinates efforts to find appropriate services (housing, transportation, employment, medical, mental health and other social services) from community providers, collateral agencies and other community partners.
• Provides psycho-educational classes to address criminogenic risks and counseling for offenders with substance use disorders and mental health disorders. Services may also be provided to family members.
• Helps clients to obtain necessary identification (i.e birth certificate, drivers license, tribal ID, etc.)
• Provides written and verbal communication with Adult Probation and Parole Agents and Supervisor on treatment progression.
• Provide case management services, coordinate, advocate, monitor and link clients to appropriate services in the facility and outside in the community if discharged.
• Other duties as required.

• Human behavior and performance, risk and needs assessments, behavioral health management.
• Community services of community providers, collateral agencies and other community partners for housing, transportation, medical, mental health and other social services.
• Psycho-educational classes and cognitive behavioral techniques.
• Computer skills, Microsoft Office products, Google Docs, and UDC software.
• Justice system, rules, records, procedures and protocol.
• Compose and produce reports, documents, and related material.
• Use of interviewing techniques such as motivational interviewing.

• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations, e.g., being subject to possible physical attack. Institutional/Correctional surroundings and hazards, including being subject to possible physical attack. Safety and risk issues inherent while working within a correctional facility with an offender population are presumed.
• Work requires physical exertion. May require the ability to stand; walk over rough surfaces; bend, crouch, stoop, stretch, reach, lift moderately heavy items (up to 50 lbs.) in a recurring manner and/or for long periods of time.
• All questions must be answered fully and in the format requested, if applicable. Failure to do so may result in disqualification. Entering "see resume" as an answer will be considered an incomplete answer. Cutting and pasting pertinent information from your resume is acceptable, but should be edited to be a precise answer to the question.
• NOTE:  Department of Human Resource Management rules regarding promotions and transfers apply to current state employees.
• Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary : $25