Residential Adult Case Manager Opelika, AL

Residential Adult Case Manager job at Integrea Community Mental Health Systems. Opelika, AL.

Pay Range: $13.25/hour minimum and $17.00/hour maximum;
Relevant work experience will be considered also.

This is a full time position.

Hours are variable.

Provides services to seriously mentally ill adults and persons with intellectual disability. Case Management services include: linkage, advocacy, support, crisis intervention, basic living skills training, and family support and education. May perform other job duties as credentialed. Responsible for coordinating the implementation of the consumer's Plan.

Case Management services are delivered through home visits, telephone contacts, clinical visits, agency visits, and/or family contacts.

Provides services to consumers in their least restrictive environment, i.e., at home, work, etc. Monitors the consumer's mental, behavioral, and physical health. Monitors the social and emotional needs of consumers. Assists with planning how these needs can be met. Assists with maintaining community-based placements for consumers. Assists in improving the ability of consumers to function as independently as possible in their regular home, school, work, and community setting.

Ensures consumer rights are observed and protected. Promotes social interaction, reality orientation, and intellectual stimulation. Responsible for the safety of consumers under his/her supervision.

Completes SUN-R assessments and develops case management plan. Completes a comprehensive assessment of a consumer's needs, including a bio-social evaluation that addresses the consumer's assets, deficits, and needs. Participates in the development of the consumer's person-centered Plan and oversees the implementation of the Plan. Develops case management goals and objectives. Completes the consumer’s adaptive functioning assessment, when required.

Service arrangement and coordination. Ensures that the consumer interfaces with the appropriate persons or agencies necessary to implement the Plan (i.e., inter- and intra-agency). May schedule or assist consumers with scheduling appointments for needed services (medical, dental, etc.). Serves as a liaison with social, health, and community agencies. Assists with coordinating community resources. Works closely with other Center staff as a member of the consumer's multidisciplinary treatment team.

Contacts others on the consumer's behalf and follows up to determine that the consumer is receiving needed services.

Reviews on an ongoing basis the services being provided to the consumer and determines whether these services are adequate to meet the needs of the consumer. Adjustments in the Plan may be required as a result of monitoring. Monitors and inventories medication as assigned.

Assists with expanding the consumer's social support network. Assists consumers in obtaining basic needs, including clothing, food, housing, medication, and budgeting. Assists with menu planning. May deliver consumer medications to the consumer's home. Works closely, when appropriate, with the consumer's family to develop and maintain a natural support system.

Assists the consumer through crisis situations and/or arranges for the provision of such assistance by other professional/personal care givers. Provides emergency intervention to ameliorate a consumer's maladaptive emotional or behavioral reaction. Assists the consumer in resolving the crisis and developing symptomatic relief.

Provides face-to-face basic living skills training in a variety of psychosocial areas, i.e., social skills, stress management, housekeeping, laundry, shopping, meal preparation, personal hygiene/self-care, money management, using public transportation, healthy lifestyle, medication management, etc. Provides opportunities for consumers to enhance basic living skills. Provides training required to enable the consumer to maintain community tenure and to improve his or her capacity for independent living.

Follows consumer's Plan as written by therapists.

Provides support and education to family members and/or significant others. Teaches parenting skills. Assists family members in understanding the nature of the consumer's illness and how to help the consumer to continue living in the community.

Transports consumers as needed. May transport consumers in Center and/or personal vehicle. Responsible for maintaining personal liability insurance coverage. Follows all traffic laws. Immediately reports any Center vehicle malfunction to supervisory or maintenance staff. Maintains safe driving record and attends defensive driving course as assigned. Completes written vehicle records as assigned. Wears seat belt and ensures that passengers wear their seatbelts.

Transports children under the age of 12 in the rear seat of the vehicle (including one's personal vehicle). Utilizes…