Intensive Case Manager (Children & Youth) CSPOA

Key Elements Of The Role:

• Responsible for helping youth and their family access needed services; including service planning child and family team meetings referrals and access to needed services advocacy and coordinate and manage services across system;

• Performs outreach services to engage youth; engage families and other natural supports to identify the youths needs facilitate linkages and promote follow-through.

• Coordinate and evaluate a youths identified needs and provision of services including prevention wellness medical mental health care transitions and social and community services;

• Develop and manage comprehensive individualized care plans addressing medical behavioral educational and social needs working collaboratively with each client and family;

• Maintain regular contact with clients and collateral contacts providing face-to-face visits in the home school and community to provide crisis prevention/intervention/stabilization referral and advocacy services coordination of services and assistance with basic needs as well as engage in discharge planning with youth and family;

• Maintain knowledge on available community resources including but not limited to medical behavioral health housing DSS entitlements transportation vocational and other services that address concrete needs;

• Maintain detailed timely and accurate record keeping/charting assessment forms accountability forms and direct service requirements of state and county regulations

• Work as part of a care management team attend and participate in regular team meetings to provide feedback and share resource information relating to client needs issues and concerns.

• All other duties as assigned.

Benefits For You Now And Your Future

• Health Insurance: Suffolk offers a comprehensive health insurance plan including medical dental and vision coverage

• Pension

• Paid Time Off: Vacation (2 weeks to start) is accrued based on length of service; sick leave allows employees to taketime off for illness without sacrificing pay; personal days can be used for a variety of reasons; and thirteen (13) paid holidays.

• Work-Life Balance: County jobs offer regular working hours reducing the need for overtime or irregular shifts. This helps employees maintain a good work-life balance.

Overall county government jobs offer a combination of competitive benefits and job security making them an attractive option for many job seekers.

Salary: $51913

Work Schedule:

Monday - Friday

9:00AM - 5:00PM;

**Flexibility to work 2 evening/week

*This position doesnotoffer relocation assistance at this time

**Sponsorship isnotavailable for this role

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

OPEN COMPETITIV

Graduation from a college with federally-authorized accreditation or registration by NY State with a Bachelors Degree in a human services field* AND four (4) years of experience in providing services to mentally disabled** patients/clients.

NOTE: A Masters Degree in a human services field* may be substituted for two (2) years of the required experience.

*For purposes of qualifying for this title a human services field includes Social Work Psychology Nursing Rehabilitation Education Occupational Therapy Physical Therapy Recreation or Recreation Therapy Counseling Community Mental Health Child and Family Studies Speech and Hearing and Sociology.

Type of license or certificate required:

At the time of appointment and during employment in this title employees will be required to possess a valid license to operate a motor vehicle in New York State.

Suffolk Countys Commitment to Diversity Inclusion & Equity:

• Our focus is to promote support and implement the County-wide diversity and inclusion strategic plan.
• We achieve results in all our responsibilities through the use of diversity and inclusion best practices.
• We maintain a familiarity with Diversity & Inclusion trends and best practices.

Suffolk County is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of race color religion creed national origin ancestry disability that can be reasonably accommodated without undue hardship sex sexual orientation gender identity age citizenship marital or veteran status or any other legally protected status.