Mental Health Vocational Case Manager

Child & Family Focus, Inc.•Marple Township, PA

12d•Hybrid

About The Position

First Episode Psychosis (FEP) is a Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) approach to treating young people who have recently experienced their first episode of psychosis. The FEP Team offers services including low-dose medication management, Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Psychosis, Family Education, Case Management, Supported Education and Employment, and peer support services. Service coordination is guided by the young person’s voice and choice. FEP seeks to improve the quality of life of young people by instilling hope through empowerment to guide their own treatment, educating them about their psychosis, re-establishing relationships, and re-integrating them back into the community whether it’s attending school or working. This position within Delaware County is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing services for consumers as identified in the service plan. Responsibilities include providing case management, service planning, and coordination of services with other agency providers to meet the client’s needs along with supportive counseling. This position will also provide advocacy to consumers in order to help consumers set and achieve recovery goals and empower consumers to increase self-advocacy, as well as providing supported employment and education services, ongoing job coaching and support for clients who obtain job and school placement. This candidate will work on a closely-coordinated multidisciplinary team to provide community-based support to 15-30 year olds who are experiencing their first episode of psychosis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Human Service or related field
One or more years of direct clinical experience working with children, youth and families
Current child abuse, criminal and FBI clearances
Maintain valid driver’s license and insurance

Nice To Haves

Experience with job coaching
Experience working with Transition Aged Youth
Knowledge of resources in Delaware and surrounding counties
Experience with crisis management
Experience working with Schizophrenia Spectrum

Responsibilities

Assist in the completion of comprehensive assessments and treatment plans for each individual client
Complete a career and education inventory to obtain strengths, needs, aspirations, and barriers
Develop and implement a written service plan for each consumer assigned to the caseload
Provide services that diffuse or resolve crises in order to prevent unnecessary use of emergency rooms, in-patient services and mental health court
Make home, school, hospital and community-based visits at a minimum of every 30 days (or more often as determined by the consumer’s level of care)
Familiar with and able to access community resources and child and transitional age serving systems in Delaware County
Substantial local travel in your own vehicle to off site locations as required by caseload, supervision and/or training requirements.
Transport clients and families to various appointments based on caseload as needed
Document supervision/case activity through ETO, progress notes and other program specific paperwork by typing or handwriting
Ensure that program files are organized and paperwork is filed into client specific charts
Achieve billable hour requirements per week
Assume case load of up to 30 clients

Benefits

Hourly rate of $19 an hour
Flexible Schedules allows for Work/Life Balance
Annual Salary Increase and Bonus
Medical and Vision Benefits offered on first day of employment, 3 plan options offered by Independence Blue Cross
Dental Benefits offered on first day of employment, 2 plan options offered by Guardian
Ancillary Benefits offered on first day of employment, such as Accident, Critical Illness, Cancer, Short Term Disability
Long Term Disability and $50,000 Life Insurance Policy provided by CFF
9 Paid Holidays
17 days of Paid Time Off with additional days added through years of service
Paid Parental Leave
Tuition Reimbursement
401K plan with company match and profit sharing
Mileage and Expense reimbursement for travel and training
Clearance Reimbursement