Case Manager - IDDD Services
Case Manager - IDDD Services
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Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week) Monday through Friday 8:30 am 5:00 pm
Location: Multiple locations based around burg VA 24501
Position Summary:
The Case Manager serves as a support coordinator ensuring that services to individuals with developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities are planned individualized and personcentered. The Case Manager provides services that may include assistance to individuals and their family members in accessing needed services that are responsive to the individuals needs.
Required Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college/university in an applicable human services field.
- A minimum of one year of directly related work experience providing case management services to individuals with developmental disabilities. May consider an equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the required knowledge skills and abilities.
Related Knowledge Skills & Abilities:
Knowledge of: Services systems and programs available in the community including primary health care support services eligibility criteria and intake processes and generic community resources and treatment programs; The nature of developmental and intellectual disabilities serious mental illness substance use disorders and/or cooccurring disorders depending on the population served including clinical and developmental issues; Different types of assessments including functional assessment (i.e. VIDES) and their uses in service planning; Treatment modalities and intervention techniques such as behavior management independent living skills training supportive counseling community integration supported employment family education crisis intervention discharge/transition planning and service coordination; Types of developmental mental health and substance use services available in the locality; The service planning process and major components of a service plan; The use of medications in the care or treatment of the population served; and all applicable federal and state laws and regulations and local ordinances.
Skills in: Identifying and documenting an individuals need for resources services and other supports; Using information from assessments evaluations observation and interviews to develop individual service plans; Identifying services and resources within the community and established service systems to meet the individuals needs and documenting how resources services and natural supports such as family can be utilized to achieve an individuals personal habilitative/rehabilitative and life goals; and coordinating the provision of services by public and private providers.
Ability to: Work as team members maintaining effective inter and intraagency working relationships; Work independently performing position duties under general supervision; and engage in and sustain ongoing relationships with individuals receiving services; Complete the DBHDS core competencybased curriculum within 30 days of hire; Participate in and successfully pass behavioral intervention training which includes both verbal deescalation skills and physical skills techniques to be utilized with consumers as needed; Drive and must possess a valid Virginia drivers license. May be called upon to travel to any Horizon worksite; transport clients provide services to clients at other locations. Regular attendance at training and Horizon meetings that may require travel to a variety of Horizon sites; Willing and available to work modified schedules (weekends holidays etc. as required.
About Horizon:
Horizon Behavioral Health is located in the heart of Central Virginia surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Whether your passions be hiking on the vast Appalachian Trials kayaking through the James River Blueways or a Sunday drive along the worldfamous Blue Ridge Parkway burg VA offers smalltown southern charm with an active culture of music festivals outdoor activities and performing arts that placed it at the top of the list by Reviews as the 2019 best place for millennials to move. Horizon is also the proud recipient of the 2016 Giving Back Award Best Place to Work in 2018 Best of burg for Counseling Services for multiple consecutive years and again most recently for 2021!
We offer a generous benefits package that includes participation in the Virginia Retirement System; life health dental and vision insurance; annual leave sick leave and holidays. Horizon participates in the NHSC as well as PSLF educational loan forgiveness programs. If you are interested in continuing your education working at Horizon qualifies you to receive discounts at some local universities.
To Apply Please visit our online career center at www.HorizonBH
Horizon requires vaccination against COVID 19 with an FDAapproved or FDAauthorized vaccine as a condition of employment or seek an approved exemption prior to start date. Horizon Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
