Multidisciplinary Forensic Team Case Manager

Multidisciplinary Forensic Team Case Manager

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Mental Health Resource Center is a not-for-profit Florida corporation that provides a wide range of mental health and behavioral health care services to the community such as 24‑hour emergency services, inpatient psychiatric services for children, adolescents, and adults as well as outpatient services such as medication management, case management, and counseling.

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance
• 403b
• PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible Spending Account
• Employee Assistance Program

The Multidisciplinary Forensic Team (MFT) is a comprehensive approach to divert individuals with severe and persistent mental illness from involvement in the criminal justice system, as well as commitment to Forensic State Hospital Facilities and other residential forensic programs by providing community-based services and supports. The Case Manager provides needed treatment, rehabilitation, and support services to individuals served by the MFT Program with the goal of diverting these individuals from the criminal justice system or commitment to a Forensic State Mental Health Treatment Facility.

Promotes recovery, empowerment, self-determination and decision-making for each MFT participant.

• Provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support services in accordance with the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Guidance document for Forensic Multidisciplinary Team (MFT), which is adapted from the Florida for Assertive Community Treatment (FACT) model
• Provides initial and ongoing assessments.
• Provision of treatment, rehabilitation, and support services as assigned.
• Provides direct services to persons served by the program on an individual, group and family basis.
• Maintains close working relationships with the judicial assistants in the circuit, the Office of the Public Defender, the Office of the State Attorney, and the Clerk of the Courts Office.
• Works with the Forensic department to screen individuals for the MFT program when early notification of orders appointing experts and orders of commitment are received.
• Assists as a resource person to community case managers, state hospital staff, LSFHS staff, DCF staff and jail/correctional personnel, on an as needed basis in matters involving forensic persons.
• Completes regular risk assessments and monitors compliance with the conditional release plan to ensure public safety.
• Prepares written reports for the court, including placement plans, progress reports, violation reports and other correspondence.
• Provides competency restoration services.
• Provides service coordination for an assigned group of individuals, which includes monitoring activities on the individual’s recovery plan, conditional release plan, and competency restoration services.
• Participates in scheduling team services.
• Participates in team organizational meetings.
• Provides crisis intervention as necessary, including evenings, weekend and holidays hours as assigned.
• Participates in providing 24 hour a day on call coverage for the MFT program.
• Assists the psychiatrist/ARNP in medication management and in monitoring individual’s medications for effectiveness and side effects.
• Provides stage-based substance abuse treatment and motivational interviewing through both individual and group meetings.
• Advocates for individuals served by the program to ensure acquisition of necessary social services to include activities of daily living, including medical, dental, legal, housing, and entitlements and monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of the service and the person’s satisfaction.
• Facilitates each person’s acquisition of and continuance of housing in the least restrictive environment available contingent upon court requirements.
• Facilitates case conferences and family conferences, as needed.
• Assesses and develops the individual’s natural support system.
• Communicates the needs of the individuals served to the MFT team.
• Assesses and…