Case Manager - Behavioral Health

Position: Case Manager - Behavioral Health Home
Location: Northern

# Case Manager
- Behavioral Health Home
233 Main St
- New Britain, CT 06051## Overview Job Shift Day## Case Manager
- Behavioral Health Home Why CMHA?

Community Mental Health Affiliates, Inc. (CMHA) is a private non-profit treatment provider headquartered in New Britain, with seven locations throughout the city and in Waterbury. We partner with clients and the community to promote recovery from mental illness and substance use, treating more than 7,500 adults and children each year. CMHA is Connecticut’s first fully Joint Commission accredited Behavioral Health Home and is a SAMHSA Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC).

Visit cmhacc.org to learn more.

Internal mobility and career pathing is a focus at CMHA with many employees growing from individual contributors to leaders.

CMHA is looking to hire full-time, 1st shift, Case Manager for our Behavioral Health Home Team. This position will be located at 233 Main St. New Britain, CT 06051. Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. Compensation Range:
The salary range for this position starts at $20.00 per hour.
* Compensation for each position is determined not only by years of relevant experience, education, and skills, but also by maintaining internal pay equity. CMHA also takes into consideration our benefits and paid time-off package to provide a well-rounded and competitive approach to the applicant’s overall compensation.
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* Summary:

** Serves as case manager to support, teach, advocate, and empower clients with mental health, medical and co-occurring needs. This includes developing person-centered recovery goals to live, learn, socialize, work and maintain health and wellness in the community.## Qualifications
** Essential Responsibilities and Target Outcomes:*
* • Maintains appropriate caseload as determined by CMHA and funder
• Provides direct care to clients by conducting individualized and group education, skill building, recreation and household maintenance activities and/or monitoring the environment with clients for cleanliness, safety and repairs.
• Works with clients to teach life skills necessary to live independently in the community. This includes assisting with finances and entitlements, supporting the development of activities of daily living, nutrition, housing maintenance and repair, and prompting to encourage task completion.
• Educates clients to utilize emergency and community resources to help meet basic needs.
• Develops and reviews individualized treatment plans with clients to identify goals and progress throughout the client’s stay by meeting with each client on caseload in adherence to program requirements
• Assures timely documentation is maintained in accordance with CMHA policies and procedures, including but not limited to progress notes, treatment plans, authorizations, program orientation, consent to treat and monthly targeted case management notes. Completes all additional program required documentation, including shift report, in compliance with CMHA policies and procedures.
• If applicable, supervises and documents the self‐administration of medication to program clients as scheduled in an accurate, professional manner by adhering to program policy, procedure and training.
• Collaborates and integrates with other CMHA teams to ensure all services provided to client are communicated with client’s treatment team.
• Communicates with external providers to ensure consistency of and accessibility to requested/needed services. May provide transportation as needed.
• Performs other related duties as assigned
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* Education:

** Bachelor’s Degree in a mental health related field preferred or equivalent experience.
** Credentials and Licenses:
** Must have valid Connecticut driver’s license, a reliable vehicle. Will become…