Bridgeway Wellness Specialist​/Case Manager

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Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth and dedication to the work. Bridgeway operates 13 PACT teams, along with more than 20 additional short-term, and longer-term integrated care and recovery service teams across 10 New Jersey counties.

At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future.

As a Wellness Specialist, you willjoin an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive.

Department: BCIS Union

Salary: $40,000-$42,500

Location: 615 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, NJ (Serving Union County)

Schedule:
Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm (one evening shift required 12pm-8pm)

As part of a multi-disciplinary, core services team, provides on-site direct wellness and recovery oriented services, and case management to people who are experiencing a mental health crisis or a worsening of a pre-existing mental health or co-occurring disorder inclusive of substance abuse and/or medical disorders. This position provides individual and group recovery focused interventions and case management linkage to a vast array of community service providers.

• Create and Maintain:
  • A wellness and recovery-oriented environment by using person-first language, respectful documentation, and person-centered planning. All services provided will promote wellness and recovery outcomes, helping to stabilize individuals so they may remain in the community, and divert from having to go to the Emergency Room.
  • A culture of compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, laws and high ethical standards, inclusive of Psychiatric Rehabilitation principles and evidence based best practices.
• Responsibilities:
  • Engage individuals into BCIS services using motivational and strengths based approaches.
  • Performs in the role as gatekeeper for individuals who do not meet the criteria for admission into the CIS program. Assists referral source callers and individuals who call or walk-in to link with needed community services in order to divert these referred individuals from defaulting to emergency services.
  • Coordinates and maintains referral and community service and resource lists.
  • Assists with linkage for enrollees whenever needed due to volume.
  • In coordination with the clinicians and other team members, provides case management activities as identified in the Treatment Plan including referral and linkage to necessary community service providers for aftercare services.
  • Assertive in locating needed resources and in accessing entitlements, including financial entitlements.
  • Provides frequent monitoring of the mental health status of persons receiving services as well as related variables, including significant others, the home and the community in which the person served lives, and shares this information with multi-disciplinary team members.
  • Conduct collaborative and concurrent documentation
  • Assist enrollees to develop a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) or a Psychiatric Advanced Directive (PAD).
  • Provides mental health education, illness management, and medication education on-site to persons served and significant others.
  • Provides crisis intervention services and crisis de-escalation in the  living room  (from the Living Room Model utilized in EISS programs) for individuals in crisis.
  • Wellness services including group and individual education on illness management, problem solving, stress reduction, coping,…