C193 - Case Manager

Title: Case Manager - (Full Time)

Number of Positions: 1

Competition Number: C193

Location: Rising Sun

Position Status: Full Time, Permanent

Shift Timings & Days: (Monday - Friday) 08:30 am - 04:30 pm

Reports to: Program Manager

Compensation: (Grid 34) $33.49 - $35.31

The Case Manager at Phoenix Society facilitates the recovery and capacity-building of clients to maximize their social and economic potential and support their goals for successful independent living in the community.

The position is responsible for: case management, including the facility resident orientation, assessment, supportive counselling, and group facilitation; client support; and community building. The Case Manager connects clients to needed services with addiction counsellors, employment counsellors and others at the Society, as well as with community organizations.

• Provide case management services to assigned caseload of clients
• Observes clients, identifies and assesses potential emergency situations, and develops short-term strategies to deal with such situations. Reports medical, behavioural, and other problems as required. Provides feedback and input regarding clients’ needs, performance, and progress
• Maintain and update client case management files on the database system, ensuring that monthly reporting deadlines are met
• Provides supportive counselling, demonstrations, modeling, and behaviour management to clients, their families, and their personal networks, to assist with the development of physical, social, emotional, and life skills such as maintaining personal hygiene, housekeeping, meal planning and preparation, meeting financial obligations, making and keeping appointments, and interpersonal skills
• Completes and maintains related records and documentation such as care plans, progress reports, statistics, and daily logs
• Identify and prioritize clients’ needs in the following areas: employment; financial support; substance use; criminal justice involvement; family history; etc.
• Assist in coordinating routine medical care and collaborating with on-site medical team
• Assist in liaising with psychiatrists, mental health teams, etc. as part of case work support services
• Attend and participate in Interdisciplinary team meetings and collaborate with other on-site professionals
• Transition and Discharge planning

• Act as a positive role model, coach, advisor, leader, and rational authority for clients
• Teach clients effective social and interpersonal skills through daily groups and through the tasks of appropriate daily living and social activities
• Contribute to maintaining a therapeutic environment following therapeutic community principles which encourage awareness of interdependence of community members and the value of responsible concern for oneself and others
• Prepare intake and admission documentation for review with new clients in the Housing Program prior to the client’s move-in date
• Welcome and orient incoming clients to Transitional and Supportive Housing Programs. Review the Resident Handbook with clients and assist them with move-in needs such as bedbug protocols, unpacking, getting familiar with the building, health and safety protocols, community resources and staff locations
• Form and maintain positive and effective collaborative relationships of accountability with clients in the areas of education, employment, recovery, volunteer participation and independent living
• Actively involve the client in action planning and encourage them to take responsibility for the outcomes they are striving to achieve
• Provide crisis intervention when necessary
• Assist in monitoring client’s activities within residential buildings to ensure that areas are appropriately used for…