CASE MANAGER

Job Details:

Job Location:

Yakima Main Center - Yakima, WA, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: Bachelor's degree, Salary Range: $22.31 - $33.47

Hourly, Job Shift: Day, Who is Comprehensive Healthcare?

Comprehensive Healthcare provides innovative behavioral health and integrated healthcare services to clients of all ages. We take pride in our creative and collaborative work environment and in delivering clinically excellent, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented services.

What are we looking for in a Case Manager?

Case Managers provides supportive counseling and guidance in conjunction with other supportive services.

• Conducts behavioral health groups following Comprehensive Healthcare’s guidelines and policies.
• Leads groups using effective group facilitation skills that promote participation and interaction among group members.
• Utilizes group process to develop insight, practice skills, and motivate client for change.
• Follows lesson plan or curriculum and connects presented material to individual treatment plan goals.

• Provides a combination of direct service and service coordination, with internal and external resources, to assist the client with achieving identified treatment plan goals.
• Demonstrates a comprehensive knowledge of community services and resources (including peer, natural, and community supports) and actively encourages individuals to access them.
• Advocates for the client when appropriate to attain services and benefits to further recovery goals.

• Demonstrates and utilizes knowledge of development in children, youth and young adults.
• Demonstrates and utilizes knowledge and understanding of behavioral health problems in children, youth and young adults.
• Demonstrates and utilizes knowledge of and ability to work with issues of confidentiality, consent and capacity.
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate and coordinate with family, parents, caregivers and community and natural supports.
• Communicates effectively with children and youth of differing ages and developmental levels.

• Utilizes appropriate crisis intervention techniques for client stabilization.
• Accurately screens for risk to self, others, property and the presence of grave disability and makes appropriate referrals.
• Documents and reports and/or notifies as required by law.
• Applies QPRT (Question, Persuade, Refer or Treat) principles in assessing risk and in safety and treatment planning.
• Develops and documents appropriate safety plans.

• Demonstrates and utilizes knowledge of normal aging process and age related changes.
• Demonstrates an understanding of neurocognitive disorders and their impacts on functioning.
• Demonstrates awareness of how medical issues can affect mental status.

• Demonstrates ability to minimize distractions while observing medication self-administration.
• Demonstrates ability to locate and adhere to medication management policies and procedures.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain cleanliness and hygiene.
• Demonstrates ability to provide education, support and instructions during medication self-administration.
• Practices the Five Rights of Medication Administration;
  Right Patient, Right Medication, Right Dose, Right Route and Right Time.
• Demonstrates ability to order/re-order medications.
• Demonstrates ability to document medication self-administration in Medication Administration Record (MAR).
• Conducts and documents ongoing assessment of medication adherence, medication effectiveness, and side effects of medications reporting information to appropriate supervisor(s) and/or physicians as applicable.
• Demonstrates ability to…