Client Support Case Manager

Client Support Case Manager

Company:
Home Front

Type:
Full-time

A society free of domestic violence where everyone has the opportunity to realize their full potential.

Create a safe community by eliminating domestic violence through direct client services, justice coordination and facilitated community action.

Home Front is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending domestic violence in the Calgary area. We are an internationally recognized, research validated, leading edge, coordinated community-justice response to domestic violence. Working together with justice, law enforcement and the community, Home Front shares a common vision and goal to reduce domestic violence in Calgary

A Home Front Client Support Case Manager is responsible for the daily management of their assigned client caseload while ensuring that Home Front’s Mission, Vision, Values and protocols are followed and incorporated into daily case practice and file management.

This includes but is not exclusive to: working with clients, and their families, through the specialized domestic violence justice process from charge up to the end of probation; provide ongoing risk assessments, safety planning, support, information and referrals to Home Front clients; work collaboratively within Home Front’s continuum of services; work collaboratively with Home Front working partners, specifically the Calgary Police Service (CPS), Crown Prosecutors, Alberta Corrections(P.O.) and Child and Family Services (CFS), providing updates and feedback within the bounds of Home Front & professional protocols;
Acting on committees, internal and external of the agency as require; administrative duties as required to maintain case files and program support.

• Contact new clients and conduct assessments (Abuse History, B-SAFER, etc.)
• Provide professional and proactive support to Home Front clients (and their families when required) from inception of case through to transition within continuum or the file is closed. Remain in tune and responsive to client needs and file complexity to provide comprehensive support that enhances client safety and empowerment.
• Through powerful client engagement and interview strategies gain client information necessary to build:
  
  - a comprehensive safety plan which is reviewed regularly.
  
  - a clear evaluation of current risk level which is monitored often and communicated to the client.
  
  - an accurate historical context of the family dynamics and stressors for case manager knowledge and for dissemination to the collaborative.
  
  - a trusting and empathetic professional space in which client’s express needs and any ongoing concerns.
  
  - a space where domestic violence education & justice process information is provided, and reality of the relationship/family dynamics are integrated.
• Provide trusted and appropriate community referrals to clients and their families to increase safety, provide for basic needs, build community support system, provide mental health support and increase client confidence.
• Expediently provide summary of relevant client and case manager assessment information to D.V. justice response partners (Crown, CPS, CFS, and Probation) to create the most efficient and effective justice response to each individual case.
• Par ticipate in specialized domestic violence court room by:
  
  - attending weekly docket.
  
  - assisting in the collection of relevant case decisions to provide up to date information to Home Front clients as soon as possible.
  
  - check in with all individuals attending court by providing direction to any accused with questions and ensuring any present Home Front clients are connected to a case manager and all information is up to date.
  
  - contribute to Case Conferencing (ECR) proceedings by ensuring Crown partners have all up to date information from Home Front and CS.
  
  - assisting proceedings by working to connect with client in the moment for clarification to questions from Crown or Defense ensuring the court matter may go forward.
  
  - be an active and equal participant in the specialized domestic violence court in line with the mission to move the files through the court as…