VOALA
Helping Our Most Vulnerable Change Their Life Stories
Volunteers of America is a non-profit human services organization committed to serving people in need, strengthening families, and building communities. VOALA provides a variety of social services to Los Angeles area communities such as Head Start programs, Upward Bound college prep programs, veterans’ services, homeless shelters, low-income housing programs, as well as drug and alcohol rehabilitation. Learn more at www.voala.org.
PAY RATE: $30.94-$32.57 PER HOUR
JOB SUMMARY AND PURPOSE
The Clinical Case Management Team provides clients with the highest levels of acuity and co-morbidities individualized care through access to service linkages, counseling, treatment planning, and various crisis intervention methods in order to prepare individuals for further success. The Clinical Case Manager II provides Intensive Case Management Services to clients who have several psychological co-morbidities that must be managed appropriately for a successful re-entry into society.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Handles caseload of higher acuity clients
- Conducts comprehensive screenings and assessments with individuals (and families as appropriate) to collect functional, environmental, psycho-social, financial, employment, housing, educational, and health information, as appropriate
- Assess barriers facing the clients and develop a case plan.
- Coordinate individualized planning with clients to meet short- and long-term needs.
- Provide service linkages and support systems to ensure identified needs are met.
- Coordinates case conferences with clients, consults with service team, monitors progress of clients on case plan, assists clients to meet the agreed upon goals.
- Acts as advocate for client before judicial, community, social service, and administrative bodies as needed; facilitates support groups and client participation
- Network and communicate with referral agencies and community resources, as well as family members and natural supports
- Participates and assists with outreach events
- Other tasks as may be required to meet the program goals, and goals of program participants
- Other duties as required
QUALIFICATIONS
REQUIREMENTS:
- Must be able to pass a fingerprint clearance, background check, including criminal history, personal references, employment and education verifications
EDUCATION:
- Master's degree in social work, psychology, or counseling from a fully-accredited college or university.
- Registered with the Board of Behavioral Sciences as an Associate Clinical Social Worker (ASW) or Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT)
EXPERIENCE:
- Minimum of 2 years of providing human services to a special needs population, including at least 1 year of complex clinical experience in homelessness, addictions, under-served population, or prison re-entry/diversion program;
- Minimum of 1000 supervised hours working towards Licensure (LCSW or LMFT)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 3 years of complex clinical experience in program(s) serving homelessness, addictions, under-served populations or prison re-entry/diversion.
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