BH Housing Case Manager

Behavioral Health Case Manager

Sea Mar Community Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) founded in 1978, is a community-based organization committed to providing quality, comprehensive health, human, housing, educational and cultural services to diverse communities, specializing in service to Latinos in Washington State. Sea Mar proudly serves all persons without regard to race, ethnicity, immigration status, gender, or sexual orientation, and regardless of ability to pay for services.

Sea Mar's network of services includes more than 90 medical, dental, and behavioral health clinics and a wide variety of nutritional, social, and educational services.

Position Summary:

Works autonomously and collectively as an empowered staff member of Sea Mar's Behavioral Health program and the Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH), Pathfinder, PATH 2 programs. Participates in the design, implementation, and ongoing delivery of services. Provides community and/or agency based outreach and supportive case management services for homeless consumers. Depending on the staff's degree, training and the agency's need, responsibilities may include intake and assessment, treatment planning, clinical interventions (counseling, housing, case management, crisis intervention), triage, staff trainings, peer support services, consumer advocacy, and coordination of care.

Job Description:

Participates in outreach services to prospective clients. Coordinates outreach efforts with outside agencies. Works collaboratively with co-workers and with personnel from other agencies with whom we interact. Provide peer counseling and support, drawing on common experiences as a peer, to validate client's experiences and to provide guidance and encouragement to clients to take responsibility and actively participate in their own recovery.

Participates in ongoing psychosocial assessment of the psychological, social, vocational, systemic and economic goals and needs of the consumer. Assessment of the client's ability to obtain and maintain housing, with identification of specific problem behaviors and development of interventions to reduce or eliminate those behaviors. Development of an ongoing housing rehabilitation plan to help each client establish the skills necessary to find and maintain housing.

Will be responsible for monitoring, compiling and submitting data, reporting, and paperwork for the program. Additional responsibilities will include assisting clients in obtaining housing. Housing case management experience a plus. Individual supportive case management to assist clients to identify and cope with the issues related to symptoms of behavioral health disorders that may interfere with their ability to obtain and maintain housing.

In consultation with the Manager of homeless services, organize, design and develop program structure. Develop new and/or review existing manuals pertaining to program policy, procedures, and operating instructions. In consultation with the Manager, develop specific procedures and policies which are necessary to the operation and implementation of newly designed and/or modified programs. Provides interventions and/or referrals to other providers to assist consumer in meeting treatment and level of care needs.

Interventions may include individual, family, and group modalities, and may include counseling, case management, vocational rehabilitation, system coordination, consumer advocacy, and crisis management. Ensures that treatment planning and interventions are client centered, culturally competent and age appropriate. Considers all aspects of the consumer's, their families, and their community's psychosocial, economic and cultural needs. Provides care with respect for consumer confidentiality, safety and self determination.

Utilizes community and natural supports to supplement services, with the intent to better integrate the consumer into their community, and to eventually graduate the client from services when possible and clinically indicated. Ensures that interventions are effective, appropriate, and timely by maintaining a working knowledge of psychiatric…