Case Manager - CST

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Job Title:Case Manager (Community Support Team)

Home Office:Vienna, IL; Anna, IL; or Cario, IL. Location dependent on

closest to home residence and availability.

Area of Focus:Behavioral Health

Program(s):Behavioral Health: Outpatient Mental Health Programming helps

individuals build life skills and well-being through behavioral health

counseling, psychiatric care, and other care coordination and support

services. SAMHSA CCBHC: Serves individuals living with a mental or

substance use disorder who seeks care, including those with severe

mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD) including opioid use,

children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED),

individuals with co-occurring mental and substance disorders (COD), and

individuals experiencing a mental health or substance-related crisis.

Immediate Supervisor:Programs Director

[Case Manager]{pasted="true"}Jobduties include, but are not limited to:

• Provides comprehensive consumer care andcasemanagement services

including access to transportation, state and federal entitlements,

medical care, psychiatric care, housing, and other basic needs

tosupportstabilization and achieve/maintain recovery.

• Providecommunity-basedsupportto build on independent activities of

daily living such as grocery shopping, attending medical

appointments, assisting with medication reminders, social skills

training and development, money management and budgeting skills, and

coping skills development.

• Works collaboratively with the behavioral health treatment team to

identify program goals and monitor progress in treatment; intervenes

by way of conducting activities such as skill building, advocacy,

recovery management planning, andsupportand consultation to improve

the overall health and well-being of the client served and overall

level of functioning in identified areas of life.

• Facilitates communication across agency staff and applicable

programs to ensure continuity of care and timely follow-up for

individuals accessing behavioral health services.

• Assists as needed with setting up transitions in care and

appropriate linkages for those entering or exiting higher level of

care.

• Teaches life-management and daily living skills to clients that

translate to their natural environment with an emphasis on

developing naturalsupports.

• Completes direct service billing requirements in an efficient and

timely manner as defined on the Direct Service Requirement form.

• Completes all required forms and documentation in a timely and

efficient manner.

• Demonstrates active involvement in team/program meetings,

supervision, and agency/communityevents and activities as assigned.

• Provides crisis response and intervention services to clients by

utilizing short-term crisis intervention and conflict resolution

techniques and referral to appropriate health and human service

resources.