Address
Form of workJob Description
Salary Range: $45,731 - $71,660 (based upon degree)
The Children's Home-Based Services Mental Health Clinician / Care Manager is responsible for providing intensive outreach therapy, providing child, individual, and family therapy services to families with an emotionally impaired child/adolescent who is considered at risk of being placed outside of the home for Mental Health care. The employee in this position is responsible for consulting and coordinating services, as a case management function, with other community Mental Health programs and/or community organization/service providers. Services will be provided in Lake, Mason, and Oceana counties on and off the program site. The incumbent may be assigned agency consumers who are not open to the Home-Based team based on capacity.
The Children's Home-Based Services Mental Health Clinician / Care Manager works with families having children between the ages of 4 – 21 years old. These children will require extensive support, monitoring and follow up in order to remain in their own homes, achieve age-appropriate developmental goals, and to become integrated into normal community activities. The position requires the ability to provide/teach basic problem solving and social skills, which would help consumers to deal with difficult behavior in the home, and to be more effective at finding and using natural, community supports. This includes assisting with some or all of the following: housing, financial problems, nutrition, accessing medical care, transportation, recreation, and work-related issues. Additionally, the position incumbent will coordinate services between various agencies (i.e., schools, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Juvenile Court, etc.) to meet the needs of children and families.
JOB DUTIES:
1. Program assessment and evaluation services
The clinician / Care Manager is responsible for the ongoing assessment of needs for each individual consumer and family. The clinician will coordinate with the Access department for the process of completing a comprehensive assessment that determines service delivery eligibility, medical necessity, and therapeutic appropriateness and need for consumers seeking services at WMCMH. Ongoing within team assessments include diagnosis and functional impairments, service urgency and intensity, health and safety risks, specialized needs, desired service outcomes in alignment with the IPOS, the consumer's strengths and assets, ongoing review of support services and there effectiveness, and the availability of natural supports. This includes caseload-specific emergency screening, triage and crisis containment services during normal business hours.
2. Planning and/or implementing the plan using person-centered principles
The individual plan of service is produced in a coordinated effort by the staff member, Clinical Service Planner (CSP), and the consumer in response to the assessment. The staff member will periodically review and provide updates to the CSP related to the re-assessment of the consumer's progress, or lack thereof, in response to the plan of service goals, objectives, intervention/supports, discharge criteria, and the medical necessity for seeking the continuation of care. This may result in a change of level of care and/or episode of care discharge.
3. Linking to, coordinating with, follow-up of, advocacy with, and /or monitoring Specialty Services and Supports, and other community services/supports
Connecting the consumer with all the appropriate resources, both internal and external, and coordinating care, services or benefits provided to the consumer. Coordinating services with the consumers' personal care physician and the qualified health care providers. This also includes assisting the consumer in the development and maintenance of natural supports.
4. Monitoring Services
Tracking of the consumer's response to their individual person-centered plan of service and monitoring compliance and progress with all supports and services agreed to in the person-centered service plan. It is preferred that monitoring occurs when the consumer is present and engaged in the service process being monitored. Monitoring consumer medication in consultation with the Prescriber and/or staff nurse, ensuring the consumer is compliant with their medication intervention and monitoring potential side effects of the medications.
5. Support Services
Acting as a consistent link into the system for the consumer and/or his family including educational support around the specific disability or Mental Health condition. Educating and/or counseling for families who are caring for, or who regularly interact with, a family member who has serious mental illness, severe emotional disturbance, or disability. Education includes information about the disability, treatment options and regimens, use of medication, management, and crisis situations, etc.
6. Maintenance of the key elements of the individual consumer record
The clinical record is the responsibility of the Care Manager. The Care Manager is responsible to assure the record is up to date with releases, consents and obtaining clinical information. They are to assure that the consumers' confidentiality of information is maintained, and the Care Manager is to have knowledge of what is in the clinical record.
7. Mental Health Crisis Assessment and Intervention Services
Defined as the application of Mental Health crisis screening, crisis intervention and triage services during non-business hours as a member of the emergency on-call (EOC) services program.
8. Individual Mental Health Psychotherapy Services
Defined as the general application of one or more psychotherapies for the purpose of modifying maladaptive behavior or the reduction of dysfunctional symptoms. This position is responsible for providing and/or coordinating these services as appropriate.
9. Family Therapy
Defined as the application of family psychotherapy for the purpose of improving daily functioning/acquisition of the family unit. This position is responsible for providing and/or coordinating these services as appropriate.
10. Group Mental Health Psychotherapy Services
Defined as the application of one or more group psychotherapies for the purpose of modifying maladaptive behavior or the reduction of dysfunctional symptoms. This position is responsible for providing and/or coordinating these services as appropriate.
11. Behavior Modification
Includes assessment and an array of approved behavioral modifications procedures requiring advanced training. This position is responsible for providing and/or coordinating these services as appropriate.
