Sr. Case Manager Full-timeN

For over 125 years Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens and currently offers 160-plus programs and services for children youth adults seniors and those struggling with mental Transitional Team and Kingsborough Transition Team provide intensive wraparound services for the severely chronically mentally ill who have a history of recent psychiatric hospitalization. This critical time intervention is provided for a duration of 6 to 9 months. Service includes coordination of psychiatric and medical care community access to services as well as connections to housing services counseling nursing and medication OF THE JOBThis is a direct care position assigned to the Pathway Home transition team in Brooklyn embedded at Kingsborough State Psychiatric Center. The Sr. Case Manager will work on a newly funded field-based innovative Care Transition team that serves individuals transitioning to the community from a higher level of care. As a member of the Pathway Home multi-disciplinary team the Sr. Case Manager will work under the supervision of the Team Leader. The role will involve facilitating transition from one level of care to the community by addressing the preparatory needs of participants in the early stages of recovery discharge planning development of daily living skills and coping mechanisms through group and individual work in the community. The team will follow participants into the community using the Pathway Home model of care to ensure that they become both linked and engaged with identified community providers and that their support network is sufficient to meet their needs. The role will require on call coverage and a willingness to work flexible AND RESPONSIBILITIESEngage in-patient clients at acute care hospitals state psychiatric centers or state operated residences and participate in the coordination of their discharge; beginning from referring location with involvement in transition planning including a needs assessment of community transition supports essential to stabilizing the intensive emotional and practical support to clients as they transition back into their home visits as clients to appointments with community-based treatment providers and other services as sessions with clients emphasizing prevention and preparing for independent community living and the promotion of optimum mental and emotional health. May require helping clients deal with issues associated with but not limited to family and social relationships; stress and symptom management; activities of daily living; medication management; and housing with clients and their housing providers to resolve clinical issues that are impacting on the participants ability to obtain manage and retain supportive connection and engagement with community-based organizations that promote a sense of purpose physical wellness education employment socialization and community navigation including accompanying clients to first behavioral health and medical appointment travel training reengagement in community care referral to services with ability to identify and address potential services and barriers to obtain and maintain such collaborative working relationships with referring treatment teams and other partners and plan with them for appropriate discharges for documentation and conduct comprehensive psychosocial assessments to determine the medical psychiatric housing and other social needs in the short-term person-centered care plans to assist client towards achieving their and record clients progress and modify care plan according to needs and and instruct clients in attending to daily living skills such as personal hygiene grooming and laundry nutrition/meal preparation budgeting and socialization tasks and skills needed to successfully live and work in the community environments of their choice and in maintaining a safe living clients in sustaining community tenure by ensuring strong linkage to community-based treatment programs and on-call after hour crisis intervention services when needed to clients and their support network including respite referrals and other diversion and stabilization for timely and accurate documentation of client information within Health Information Technology platform(s).Responsible for meeting monthly service delivery metrics health outcomes metrics and billing requirements for HH and participate in team meetings and supervisory with all required in-service training and staff FOR EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSESBachelors degree preferable in psychology social work York State Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) may be substituted for the Bachelors FOR EXPERIENCE AND TRAININGCase management work experience in a social service agency preferable serving a mental health of mental illness and the needs of individuals living with severe and persistent mental of substance abuse disorders physical health conditions and behavioral health legislation and of treatment rehabilitation and community support programs as they relate to consumers/residents families and of techniques for identifying and preventing potentially violent behavior including crisis management to develop evaluate implement and modify a clinical treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual to manage multiple projects and ask for help when needed- strong organizational and time management to participate on a team to accomplish to work with all stakeholders: members network families and government staff in a caring and respectful manner and with due understanding of and consideration for cultural differences. Serves as a role model to staff and to work a flexible schedule in response to client to prepare accurate and timely oral and written communication proficiency in Microsoft applications such as MS Word Excel FOR PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTSMust be able to share staff rotation for emergency on-call and office required to talk hear walk stand & to lift up to 10 to climb stairs and make home to stretch and bend to retrieve to operate a computer keyboard mouse & office to read printed materials and computer to to sit and work on the computer for long periods of to travel to multiple locations as offer competitive salary and excellent benefits including:Generous time off (Vacation/ Personal Days/ Sick Days/ Paid Holidays annually)MedicalDentalVisionRetirement Savings with Agency MatchTransitFlexible Spending AccountLife insurancePublic Loan Forgiveness Qualified EmployerTraining Series and other additional voluntary more information on our organization please visit our website at: EOE/AA.