Case Manager- Bilingual

• Location 445 East 142nd Street,Bronx, NY, 10454,United States
• Base Pay $44,240.56 - $59,930.96 / Year
• Employee Type Non-Exempt
• Travel 50%
• Manage Others No

The Center for Urban Community Services (CUCS) is one of New York City's leading nonprofit organizations, dedicated to ending homelessness by providing integrated housing, health, and social services to individuals and families with complex needs. Every year, our team helps thousands of New Yorkers achieve greater stability, independence, and well-being through compassionate, person-centered care. At CUCS, our employees are more than service providers—they are advocates, problem-solvers, and change-makers.

If you're looking for meaningful work where you can make a lasting impact in the lives of others while growing your career, we invite you to join our team.

As a Case Manager, you will provide comprehensive, person-centered case management services to a designated caseload of clients both onsite and throughout the community. Working collaboratively with clients and interdisciplinary teams, you will support individuals in achieving their goals related to housing stability, health, recovery, employment, education, and overall wellness.

Success in this role requires strong relationship-building skills, sound judgment, effective crisis intervention, and a commitment to empowering clients through strengths-based, trauma-informed services.

Essential functions include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and maintain collaborative, professional relationships with clients while creating, implementing, and regularly updating individualized service plans that reflect each client's strengths, goals, and needs.
• Conduct ongoing assessments and monitor client progress, adjusting service plans as appropriate to support long-term stability and recovery.
• Coordinate comprehensive services and referrals to address housing, healthcare, behavioral health, substance use, employment, education, financial, and social service needs.
• Assist clients with obtaining and maintaining public benefits by completing applications, coordinating appointments, monitoring renewals, and advocating with federal, state, and local agencies.
• Support clients in securing and maintaining permanent housing, including housing searches, application completion, move-in coordination, landlord communication, annual recertifications, apartment inspections, and tenancy preservation.
• Provide crisis intervention, institutional visits, discharge planning, and coordination with hospitals, shelters, emergency responders, and other community providers.
• Deliver services both onsite and throughout the community, including home visits and accompanying clients to medical appointments, housing interviews, court appearances, benefits offices, schools, job interviews, and other essential appointments.
• Facilitate individual and group services, including recreational activities, psycho educational groups, evidence-based interventions, and wellness programming.
• Support clients with activities of daily living, including personal care, housekeeping, laundry, hoarding mitigation, pest remediation, donation coordination, and maintaining safe living environments.
• Assist with medication self-administration and medication support services in accordance with agency policies, licensing regulations, and applicable laws, including documentation, consent requirements, storage procedures, and reporting protocols.
• Support new client admissions by assisting with orientation, distributing essential household items, processing belongings through the Pack Tite system, and assisting with bed bug remediation when necessary.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and comprehensive documentation, including progress notes, assessments, Individualized…