Intensive Case Manager

Essential Duties and Primary Responsibilities

• Captures the complete assessment of clients by arranging for clinical evaluations, psychiatric consultations, psychological testing, functional assessments, rehabilitative and social needs.
• Develops and implements a collaborative case plan for each client with a focus on maintaining stable housing.
• Makes regular home visits, links clients with necessary providers, assists in accessing needed medical, psychiatric, social, educational, and other services, and maintains ongoing contact with the client.
• Manages community resources and involves the client in these resources to promote the client's success with their case plan.
• Interacts with outside agencies as needed to provide specialized services, ensuring coordinated care and the client's success.
• Identifies and interfaces with other community partners and service providers to initiate referrals and follow up to ensure client compliance.
• Aids clients in learning to use fiscal resources through budget planning, monitoring, and instructions in spending, and assists with applications to entitlements.
• Assists clients in locating appropriate housing situations and interfaces with landlords on behalf of the clients. Completes all required move-in paperwork in accordance with HUD regulations. Assists clients with relocating to housing situations.
• Manages an independent caseload of clients.
• Participates in multidisciplinary or other team meetings, in-service trainings, and other required meetings.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation entries in required data systems to reflect professional activity and client progress. Maintains and updates all required documentation in accordance with HUD regulations.
• Communicates pertinent clinical information, with necessary client consents obtained, with supervisor and other professionals.
• Generates specific activity reports in a timely manner and participates in the collection of clinical outcome data, as directed by supervisory staff.
• Maintains assigned client charts as required by program policies and procedures.
• Facilitates community resource availability based on client needs (birth certificates, identification, social security, legal issues, parole/probation issues) to assure maximum social integration.

Qualifications

• Education/Training: A Master’s Degree from an accredited school in an area of human service, or related fields, with at least two years of related experience. A Master’s Degree in psychology, counseling, social work, or related field, with the individual working toward professional licensure is preferred. Years of experience, if appropriate, may be substituted for formal education.
• Must possess a valid Florida driver’s license.