Supported Employment Case Manager

Yakima Neighborhood Health Services•Sunnyside, WA

19h•Onsite

About The Position

Established in 1975, Non-Profit Yakima Neighborhood Health Services serves patients in the areas of Behavioral Health, Family Dentistry, Internal Medicine, Women’s Health, Primary Care, Pediatrics, Vision Care and Pharmacy. Our mission is to improve the quality of life and equity in our communities by providing accessible and integrated health and social services, ending homelessness and offering unique learning opportunities for students of health professions. The Supported Employment Case Manager engages consumers and establishes trusting, collaborative relationships directed toward the goal of competitive employment in integrated job settings. This role involves assessing consumers’ vocational functioning, assisting with job development and job search activities, providing individualized and time-unlimited follow-along services to help consumers sustain employment, and offering education and support to employers. The Case Manager will also provide outreach services, meet regularly with team members to coordinate and integrate vocational services into physical and mental health treatment, draw up and update individual employment plans, and work in the community to engage and support consumers, family members, and employers.

Requirements

Knowledge of serious mental illnesses (including treatment, medication, and the impact of mental illnesses on vocational functioning).
Ability to identify consumers’ interests, strengths, skills, abilities, and unique set of challenges and match them with jobs.
Ability to identify and arrange long-term supports to help consumers keep jobs.
Ability to advocate effectively for consumers with team members and employers.
General knowledge and experience in job development and marketing.
Demonstrated ability to relate positively with employers in the community.
Working knowledge of a broad range of occupations and jobs.

Responsibilities

Engages consumers and establishes trusting, collaborative relationships directed toward the goal of competitive employment in integrated job settings.
Assesses consumers’ vocational functioning on ongoing basis.
Following SE principles and procedures, helps consumers in job development and job search activities directed toward positions that are consistent with consumers’ needs and interests.
Provides individualized, time-unlimited, follow-along services to help consumers sustain employment.
Based on agreement with consumers, provides education and support to employers, which may include negotiating job accommodations and follow-along contact with employers.
Provides outreach services to consumers, as necessary, when they appear to disengage from SE services.
If necessary, maintains some contact with consumers even without a vocational focus to sustain engagement.
Meets regularly with team members to coordinate and integrate vocational services into physical and mental health treatment.
Draws up individual employment plans with consumers, case managers, and other treatment team providers and updates the plans quarterly.
Works in the community to engage and support consumers, family members, and employers.
Maintain organized, clean, efficient and confidential work area.
Represent YNHS in local meetings as requested.
Perform related work or other tasks as requested.