Infant Case Manager for MSS

Sea Mar Community Health Centers is a thriving, not-for-profit organization in western Washington dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive health and human services to diverse communities, specializing in the Latino community. We take great pride in providing quality, affordable, culturally sensitive health care to low income and underserved communities in Washington. We are proud of the high caliber medical providers working on our team.

We support access to health care for all, and firmly believe that the patient is our first professional responsibility whether man, woman or child; ill or well; seeking care, healing, or knowledge. Thank you for considering Sea Mar CHC and we invite you to join us in our mission!

Sea Mar Community Health Centers
, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services. We are recruiting for the following position:

Sea Mar is a mandatory COVID-19 and flu vaccine organization

Hourly Rate: $22.53

Position Summary:

Full-time Infant Case Manager position available for our Maternity Support Services (MSS) Program in Federal Way, WA. The goal of the Infant Case Manager is to improve the clients’ self-sufficiency in accessing and providing care for themselves and their infant/family. The Infant Case Manager aids postpartum MSS clients in obtaining needed social and health services in an integrated and coordinated manner.

The Infant Case Manager position requires flexibility, self-initiative, and ability to manage time, resources and client caseload. The Infant Case Manager is responsible for working independently with parenting low-income families who meet specific high-risk criteria and for linking the client with services in the community that meet the family’s identified needs. This is not a counseling role but rather an advocacy and infant case management role in which the client/family is educated and empowered to utilize preventative health and social service resources in the community that contribute to the new child’s health and well-being.

There must be a need by the birth parents for assistance in accessing resources and/or providing care for the infant/family in the household. The productivity expectation for this position is 20 visits per week.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Is able provide six core services: health promotion, support to client/family, care coordination, referral to social and community resources, care management.
• Conducts mandatory screenings and optional screenings when indicated to identify care needs.
• Creates a health action plan (HAP) with the client and/or family including long term goal, short-term goal, small actionable steps to meet goals.
• Prior to HAP, reviews screenings and electronic record and when appropriate reaches out to other service providers with whom client has had contact to consult how to best support their goals and ensure non-duplicative efforts.
• Uses motivational interviewing and behavioral activation techniques with clients as an adjunct to other techniques to assist the client to achieve HAP goals and progression toward client activation.
• Reviews health action plan and screenings with client and/or family every four months.
• Works with the clients/families to integrate self-care into their activities of daily living.
• Demonstrates knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the clients served.
• Participates in case conference with all appropriate team members. When care plans are ineffective, provides recommendations in collaboration with client for change to health action plan.
• Presents caseload to interdisciplinary team members in order to…