Journey MHC Olin Center - Rear of Building 1
204 E Olin Ave
Madison, WI 53713, USA
Description
Come work with us at a Jail Diversion Community Support Program team at Journey! Community Support Programs offer coordinated, evidence-based care and treatment for adults who live with a severe mental illness. Services are provided in the community and aim to meet an individual’s unique needs, reduce mental health symptoms and challenges in community living, and lead to recovery. Program staff focus on the values of hope, collaboration, personal choice, and respect in their work with those receiving CSP services.
The CSP Case Manager is responsible for providing a wide array of culturally sensitive, recovery oriented, trauma sensitive, direct clinical and case management services in a state certified Community Support Program. The CSP Case Manager provides comprehensive clinical services in community settings. They work within an interdisciplinary team to provide day to day services to adults living with a serious mental illness and substance abuse, including assisting consumers with their rehabilitation efforts, supportive psychotherapy, education and support, medication monitoring and deliveries, treatment planning, resource procurement and case management, and assessing mental status and symptomology. This position will complete timely and professional documentation. The CSP Case Manager reports directly to the assigned CSP supervisor with overall program supervision provided by the Clinical Coordinator. Minimum annual service hours are 1352.
Qualifications
Essential
Education/Licensure
- Bachelor degree in a related behavioral health field.
Experience
- Six months experience providing mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness.
- Commitment to work toward improving cultural sensitivity as demonstrated by valuing diversity, recognizing personal limitations in one's competencies, and having the desire to improve.
- Strong commitment to principles of recovery and to facilitating consumer participation in treatment/service planning and provision.
- Knowledge of psychotropic medications, their effects, and side effects.
- Demonstrated ability to provide culturally and clinically sound case management services to people who have severe and persistent mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurring issues.
- Strong verbal, writing, organizational, leadership and advocacy skills.
- Possession of a valid driver’s license, a favorable driving record, adequate insurance (per state law) and access to a vehicle and willingness to use it for work (i.e. – transporting consumers).
Preferred
- Master Degree in a Behavioral Health Field preferred
- Certification or licensure in application behavioral health/substance abuse field or ability to acquire.
- Bi-lingual, and/or bi-cultural (Spanish/Hmong/Cambodian)
Responsibilities
- Clinical (High Responsibility – 90% of effort)
- The CSP Case Manager is responsible for clinical assessment, treatment planning, symptom management, and case management activities for a CSP caseload well as teaming with other case managers on their caseloads.
- Provide high quality and high-fidelity services required by DHS 63-CSP Standards.
- Develop and maintain skillset to provide services across the lifespan.
- Provide services that are culturally sensitive, recovery oriented, trauma sensitive and honoring of the consumer’s perspectives and beliefs.
- Coordinate with other community agencies/service providers as needed.
- Provide or arrange for the provision of crisis management services as clinically and programmatically appropriate and necessary.
- Provides a range of recovery oriented clinical services including outreach, assessment, individual and group therapy, advocacy, resource procurement, support to family and natural supports, assessment of substance abuse challenges, treatment planning, referral, and case management in a context that is supportive of the consumer’s culture, values, and perspectives.
- Completes accurate clinical records including intakes, assessments, treatment plans and updates, progress notes, discharge summaries, and other information in a timely manner.
- Programmatic (High Responsibility - 10% of effort)
- Attend staff meetings, in-services and other program activities as requested.
- Participate in JMHC committees, trainings and activities as directed and/or approved.
The above statements are not to be interpreted as an exhaustive list but are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by this employee.
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