Community Support Program Case Manager

Help us build a new Community Support Program team at Journey!!! Community Support Programs offer coordinated, evidence-based care and treatment for adults who live with a severe mental illness. Services are provided in the community and aim to meet an individual’s unique needs, reduce mental health symptoms and challenges in community living, and lead to recovery. Program staff focus on the values of hope, collaboration, personal choice, and respect in their work with those receiving CSP services.

The CSP Case Manager is responsible for providing a wide array of culturally sensitive, recovery oriented, trauma sensitive, direct clinical and case management services in a state certified Community Support Program. The CSP Case Manager provides comprehensive clinical services in community settings.  They work within an interdisciplinary team to provide day to day services to adults living with a serious mental illness and substance abuse, including assisting consumers with their rehabilitation efforts, assessment, supportive psychotherapy, using a wide array of interventions, through individual and group modalities, education and support, medication monitoring and deliveries, treatment planning, resource procurement and case management.  and assessing mental status and symptomology.  This position will complete timely and professional documentation.  The CSP Case Manager reports directly to the assigned CSP supervisor with overall program supervision provided by the Clinical Coordinator.  Minimum annual service hours are 1352.

QUAIFICATIONS:

ESSENTIAL

Education/Licensure

• Master’s degree in a related behavioral health field, or conferred Master’s degree within 3 months of hire.

RESPONSIBIITIES:

A.  Clinical (High Responsibility – 90% of effort)

1. The CSP Case Manager is responsible for clinical assessment, assessment, treatment planning, symptom management, providing supportive psychotherapy, individual and group, using an array of interventions, medication management and case management activities for a CSP caseload well as teaming with other case managers on their caseloads.
2. Provide high quality and high-fidelity services required in DHS 63-CSP Standards.
3. Develop and maintain skillset to provide services across the lifespan.
4. Provide services that are culturally sensitive, recovery oriented, trauma sensitive and honoring of the consumer’s perspectives and beliefs.
5. Coordinate with other community agencies/service providers as needed.
6. Provide or arrange for the provision of crisis management services as clinically and programmatically appropriate and necessary.
7. Provides a range of recovery oriented clinical services including outreach, assessment, advocacy, resource procurement, support to family and natural supports, assessment of substance abuse challenges, treatment planning, referral, and case management in a context that is supportive of the consumer’s culture, values, and perspectives.
8. Completes accurate clinical records including intakes, assessments, treatment plans and updates, progress notes, discharge summaries, and other information in a timely manner

B.  Programmatic (High Responsibility - 10% of effort)

1. Attend staff meetings, in-services and other program activities as requested
2. Participate in JMHC committees, trainings and activities as directed and/or approved

The above statements are not to be interpreted as an exhaustive list but are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this employee.