Bilingual Case Manager
Location: Washington, Connecticut
Experience credit applied in addition to base pay
$1,560 annual increase for a Master's degree
Overtime payment at 1.5x your hourly rate
Benefits & Rewards:
- 24 vacation days (increases with years of service)
- Quality low cost benefits (you can view our plans by visiting benefits.devereux.org)
- 403(b) plan with employer match/contribution
- Employee Assistance Program
Interested in advancing your career? Devereux is proud to offer ASCEND - the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills, and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to $15k reimbursed annually for undergraduate and $25k reimbursed annually for graduate) and student loan repayment!
Are you interested in making a life-saving difference for children and adolescents? Interested in joining a shelter program for unaccompanied children in Connecticut?
If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team!
In response to the humanitarian crisis at America’s ports of entry, Devereux provides short-term shelter care services for unaccompanied children who have come to the United States without a parent or legal guardian. Devereux provides extremely high-quality, trauma-informed residential and educational services for unaccompanied children, with support for their social and emotional health.
Schedule:
9:00am to 5:00pm Monday-Friday. On-site (NO remote)
Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Develop master treatment plans for children, families, and necessary providers; monitor plans to ensure progress and compliance.
- Attend medication appointments or psychiatric evaluations as needed.
- Serve as the liaison for resources and ensure all referrals are made for medically necessary treatment.
- Initiate, develop, and maintain collaborative relationships with children, their family members, and significant support systems.
- Facilitate meetings and compile documentation from all internal and external providers.
- Serve as liaison for system navigation in obtaining community services and entitlements, securing appointments with outside services and agencies, including identification of funding sources and linkages to other agencies/services.
- Complete referrals, assessments, treatment plans, and required documents.
- Demonstrate knowledge and skill necessary to obtain appropriate care, treatment, and services for the behavioral health needs of the children.
- Serve as primary liaison in regard to all levels of care, discharge planning, and any other area that the family needs support.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (behavioral science, human service, or social service field preferred).
- Ability to work in conjunction with clinicians and other team members.
- Must be empathetic and have a team approach to care for individuals.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Fully immunized/vaccinated (or have a medical/religious exemption) for Varicella, MMR, TdAp, Influenza prior to starting.
- Must be 21 years of age or older (per licensing standards).
- Valid Connecticut Driver's License.
Devereux conducts a thorough background check process to ensure the safety of the children in our care. Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Devereux uses E-Verify to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. Devereux is a drug-free workplace; drug screening is required.
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