Case Manager - STOP

What You Will Do:

• Provide interactive services to the STOP participants.
• Develop Case Management Plans (CMP) for participants.
• Develop and monitor the participant’s progress relative to their CMP through all phases of the program.
• Make appropriate referrals to outside agencies as necessary.
• Maintain progress notes in participant files.
• Keep the AOR apprised of participant’s progress. Develop discharge and aftercare plans.
• Maintain collaborative relationships evidenced by effective communication with STOP Program Director, CDCR liaisons, subcontracted CBP programs, and STOP participants.
• Maintain comprehensive case records and accurate statistical information for STOP participants and services, including all of the required elements of the Case Management Plan.
• Development of CMP within forty-five (45) calendar days of placement, ensuring goals, objectives, and target needs are based on assessment(s) results.
• Provide a minimum of two (2) face-to-face case management sessions per month with each participant and document in file and in ARMS.
• Ensure results of evidence-based assessment is documented in Case Management plan, input into ARMS and provided to the Community Based Provider.
• Attend workshops, meetings, and trainings as requested by supervisor.
• May serve as Community Advocate role in addition to job as requested by community leadership.   
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education and Experience

Required:

• Possess a high school diploma or its equivalent AND a minimum of two (2) years of experience working with criminal justice populations in the provision of case management services.

 

Preferred: NONE.

 

Certifications or Licenses:

• Required: NONE.
• Preferred: NONE.

Skills & Abilities

• Understanding of causes, symptoms, and effects of substance abuse.
• Recognition of the importance of individual differences created by personalities, cultures, lifestyles, social networks, and other factors that influence behavior. Demonstrate the ability to apply this knowledge to treatment practices.
• Understand an array of treatment modalities available to participants and maintain a current awareness of availability for placement within each treatment paradigm.
• Ability to integrate and align treatment options with institutional recommendations, participant indications, and the results of the evidence-based assessment tool.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in the community and within the organization.
• Understand and appropriately apply Amity policies and procedures and adhere to agencywide practices and regulations.
• Protect program participants’ health, safety, welfare, and confidentiality of records and participant information.
• As an interface between institutional and community settings, an attitude of appropriate advocacy for participants is essential.
• Model professionalism, effective work habits and responsible living.

ADA Information

Physical Requirements:

• Occasionally adjusts or moves objects up to 50lbs. in all directions.
• Constantly remains in a stationary position often standing or sitting for prolonged periods.
• Repeats motions that may include the wrists, hands and / or fingers.
• Constantly moves from one work yard to another daily.
• Frequently walks on hard or uneven surfaces.
• Required to communicate verbally and in written form.
• Uses all types of vision, such as close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception, to complete daily tasks.
• Assesses the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.
• Occasionally required to climb, bend, stretch, reach or stoop.
• Required to wear comfortable and location appropriate clothing and shoes.

 

Mental Demands:

• Ability to change directions as a priorities shift.
• Ability to thrive in environment that require the ability to adapt to changing circumstances,
• Ability to cope with occasionally difficult or temperamental students and faculty.
• Ability to cope with mental and emotional stress related to the position.

 

Work Conditions:

• Generally, in an indoor setting.
• Occasionally works in outdoor elements such as precipitation, snow, and wind.
• Work is in an incarcerated setting.

 

Environmental Conditions:

• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.
• The temperature in the work environment is generally moderate, however can range from hot to cold seasonally.
• Seldom may be exposed to non-lethal chemical agents as administered in necessary use of force security instances.

 

Travel:

• Occasionally travels locally and operates motor vehicles.