Case Manager, Health Homes Plus
Case Manager, Health Homes Plus
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Who We Are:CAMBA is a community of staff volunteers clients donors neighbors and partners who work together to build an inclusive New York City where all children and adults have access to the resources and supports they need to thrive. We take a comprehensive approach by offering more than 180 integrated programs in: Education & Youth Development Family Support Job Training & Employment Support Services Health Housing and Legal Services. We reach almost 80000 individuals and families including almost 13000 serves a diverse cross section of New Yorkers from new mothers in Brownsville to job seekers in the Rockaways. More than half of our clients are immigrants and refugees from around the globe. Over 85% of our families are living in poverty reflecting the challenges faced by nearly 1.7 million New Yorkers today.
Program: Health Home Plus (HH) is an intensive Health Home Care Management (HHCM) service established for defined populations with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) who are enrolled in a Health Home (HH) serving adults.
Position: Case Manager HH
Reports To: Program Manager
Location: 2244 Church Avenue Brooklyn NY11226 with Hybrid Schedule
What The Case Manager HH Does:
- Carry and maintain a caseload of up to 20 clients providing assessments developing care plans provide service referral/navigation and crisis intervention as needed.
- Comply with any and all Federal State City and CAMBA security and privacy polices intended to protect the security and privacy of individually identifiable health information.
- Conduct required field work. All clients must be seen in-person a minimum of two times per month. Additional visits may be required depending on client need.
- They would also require two additional telephonic calls for a total of 4 encounters per month.
- Work with clients to break through barriers to client goals and to assist clients in advocating for themselves and in moving toward self-sufficiency.
- Recommend and implement strategies to persuade clients to participate more fully in this process.
- Monitor clients progress toward their service plans goals via regularly scheduled telephone contact and/or face-to-face home and office visits and document via service plan outcomes and detailed progress notes (i.e. time of service type of service etc.)
- Act as client liaison/client advocate with outside organizations regarding such matters as education healthcare housing legal issues entitlements etc.
- Escort clients to appointments (educational medical social service etc.)
- Follow-up with clients for a period of time after successful completion of their primary goals to assure client stability.
- As necessary reach out and market the program to the community in order to recruit clients.
- As needed prescreen clients over the telephone for eligibility and may schedule appointments for possible enrollment.
- Assist clients in completing applications for benefits and entitlements and may process applications on clients behalf as needed.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Education/Experience Required:
- A Masters degree in one of the qualifying fields and one (1) year of Experience; OR
- A Bachelors degree in one of the qualifying fields and two (2) years of Experience; OR
- A Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) and two (2) years of Experience;
- A Bachelors degree or higher in ANY field with either: three (3) years of Experience or two (2) years of experience as a Health Home care manager serving the SMI or SED population
Other Requirements:
- Providing direct services to people with Serious Mental Illness developmental disabilities alcoholism or substance abuse and/or children with SED; OR
- Linking individuals with Serious Mental Illness children with SED developmental disabilities and/or alcoholism or substance abuse to a broad range of services essential to successful living in a community setting (e.g. medical psychiatric social educational legal housing and financial services).
- Strong communication skills are required as you must be able to effectively communicate with resistant or difficult clients.
- Candidates will also be expected to conduct care conferences with medical providers from different specialties.
- Strong written skills are required.
- Time management is essential candidates are expected to handle competing priorities in a timely fashion.
- Candidates must have the ability to work with Microsoft Office; Word Excel etc. and also utilize web-based reporting platforms.
- Bi-lingual English and Spanish (preferred).
Compensation: $60770 annually
When salary ranges are listed the range would represent the low and high end for the applicable position & program. The salary offered would be based on various factors unique to each program and includes but is not limited to experience education budget and/or program size internal equity skills and other factors that may be required for the position and organization.
Status: -Full-time (35 hours per week)
Benefits: CAMBA offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance dental insurance 403(b) retirement plan with employer match paid time off (vacation personal and sick time) and paid holidays.
CAMBA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace. People of color people with disabilities and lesbian gay bisexual and transgender people are encouraged to apply. We consider all applicants without regard to race color religion creed gender gender identity gender expression national origin age disability socio-economic status marital or veteran status pregnancy status or sexual orientation.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
