Case Manager - Supportive Housing

Supportive Housing Case Manager

Pay is commensurate with experience within a range of $20.00 to $27.86 per hour. Full time, non-exempt, benefits eligible. Bert Nash offers excellent benefits which include medical, dental, vision, KPERS retirement, life insurance, an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing free counseling and resources, and generous PTO.

Caring. Hope. Giving back. Our mission at the Bert Nash Center as the Community Mental Health Center (CMHC) of Douglas County is to advance the health of the community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments. We accomplish this by believing in our team. Each person that works for the Bert Nash Center contributes directly to the success of our clients, organization, and community.

Our values of compassion, integrity, equity and hope reflect in everything we do.

The primary responsibility of the Supportive Housing Case Manager is to work with people (mainly adults) whom are currently struggling with symptoms of mental illness, that also need assistance with obtaining and maintaining independent community housing. The consumers are served by the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. Duties include but not limited to:

• To help clients to understand the symptoms of their mental illness and to minimize the effect of those symptoms in all the significant areas of their lives;
• Complete strength assessments, collaborate in treatment planning and review the treatment plan with the client;
• Assist clients in learning and practicing new skills that contribute to their recovery as specified in their individualized treatment plan;
• Provide supportive counseling, solutions focused interventions; behavioral analysis to increase client's ability to function in all life domains;
• Complete individualized assessments with clients and identify strategies or treatment options associated with the consumer's mental illness with the goal of minimizing the negative effects of mental illness symptoms or associated environmental stressors;
• Providing outreach and crisis intervention services to clients and prospective clients to enable timely access to those services appropriate and necessary for crisis stabilization with the purpose of diverting the client from hospitalization and allowing the client to maintain independent living;
• Additional responsibilities that may be assigned as circumstances warrant;
• Flexibility to provide some after hour assistance clients in accessing the different locations within the Bert Nash CMHC network of services;
• Regular and predictable attendance is an essential function of the job.

The Supportive Housing Case Manager position requires but not limited to:

• BA/BS degree (psychology, social work, or psychiatric nursing preferred) and/or four years of equivalent experience working in the human services field;
• Ability to relate and effectively provide services to people who are experiencing mental health and housing related crisis;
• Experience working with individuals who are experiencing a serious and persistent mental illness, have a history of substance use and might have experienced significant trauma;
• Must be able to lift 25 lbs or more to assist the client in ADLs, IADLs;
• Must have reliable transportation and valid, unrestricted driver's license;
• Commitment in providing services with a Trauma Informed and Person-Centered approach;
• Also brings an energetic and positive approach to the rapidly evolving changes within the housing program and the challenges of a complex workplace;
• Flexibility in assigned working hours.