Case Manager - Homeless Services
About The Position
Looking for a meaningful opportunity to grow your career in behavioral health while making a direct impact in your community? Join Aurora Mental Health & Recovery (AMHR) as a full-time Case Manager with our Homeless Services team, where you’ll help individuals experiencing homelessness and housing instability build greater stability, independence, and hope. In this hands-on role, you’ll assist clients with navigating housing opportunities, benefits, basic needs, mental health services, and community resources, while also providing ongoing support to a caseload of approximately 12–15 clients in our permanent supportive housing program. You’ll work alongside therapists and a multidisciplinary team that values collaboration, shared knowledge, lived experience, curiosity, and learning from one another. We’re looking for someone who is adaptable, proactive, organized, and creative in solving problems; someone who can balance urgent client needs while approaching every person with dignity and respect. If you’re ready to do meaningful “groundwork,” learn from an experienced team, and build your skills while helping clients move toward lasting stability, we’d love to meet you.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in psychology, social work or other related human services degree. Or Bachelor's Degree in unrelated field with at least one year of behavioral health experience.
- Valid Colorado Driver's License with a driving record that meets organization's requirements.
- Demonstrated interest in behavioral health field
- Ability to assess crisis situations and intervene appropriately.
- Knowledge of community resources.
- Basic understanding and ability to work with differing behavioral health presentations.
- Knowledge of community resources.
- Effective organizational skills.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Nice To Haves
- Bilingual
Responsibilities
- Serve as payee for clients who require assistance to manage their finances.
- Help clients in meeting basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, personal safety, and general health care, and assist them with applications for income, medical, housing, or other benefits which they may need and to which they are entitled.
- Ensure clients' access to needed services and community resources by arranging for transportation.
- Provide comprehensive psychosocial services designed to improve or maintain clients' abilities to function effectively.
- Help clients evaluate strengths and symptoms, and facilitate clients in setting their own goals and plan for appropriate services.
- Guide and instruct clients in daily living skills such as medication use, diet, exercise, personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, budgeting, housekeeping, use of transportation, and other community services.
- Help clients develop social skills, interests, and leisure time activities, including opportunities for age-appropriate activities.
- Help clients find and make use of appropriate employment opportunities, vocational rehabilitation services, or supported work environments where appropriate.
- Offer support, assistance, consultation, and education to families, friends, landlords, employers, community agencies, and others who come into contact with clients, to maximize benefits and minimize problems associated with the presence of these persons in the community.
- Identify, work with, and make full utilization of potential natural support systems such as neighborhood networks, churches, and community organizations to encourage treatment program engagement.
- Reach out to eligible clients, inform them of, and educate them about available services in the community.
Benefits
- Health insurance: Kaiser
- Dental, vision, and flexible spending accounts (dependent care & health care)
- Company paid basic life and AD&D insurance
- Long-term disability coverage
- 403(b) retirement plan which provides 100% vesting immediately, and matching contributions up to 4% after one year of employment
- Accrued Vacation pay up to 12 days and accrued Sick Pay up to 12 days per year, and 1 floating holiday (hours calculated pro-rata basis based on full-time equivalency)
- The company observes 10 designated holidays each year.
- Employee Assistance Program
- Voluntary term life insurance
- Short term disability
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
