Phn/Rn/Social Worker - Managed Care

Salary : $64,480.00 - $89,440.00 Annually
Location : Bemidji, MN
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: 202400001
Department: Human Services
Division: Social Services
Opening Date: 01/03/2024
Closing Date: 1/17/2024 4:30 PM Central
The Position
Beltrami County is creating an eligibility list for a full-time Managed Care County Case Manager to provide comprehensive assessments to help people with long-term or chronic-care needs make care decisions and select support and service options.
Performs intermediate professional work coordinating and delivering services to clients, evaluating and assessing the success of services being provided, recommending other services that may be useful, and related work as apparent or assigned. Work is performed under the general direction of the Community Health Program Manager.
Minimum Qualifications
Education and Experience
Public Health Nurse: Minimum requirements are:

• Completion of a Bachelor's Degree in nursing PLUS
• Minnesota Certification as a Public Health Nurse or eligible to complete PHN within 6 months of hire, PLUS
• Two years of experience in nursing; at least one year must be home and community based experience.
  • Salary Range $32.88-$43.00

Registered Nurse: Minimum requirements are:

• Completion of a 2 or 3-year Nursing Program, PLUS
• Current MN licensure as a Registered Nurse, PLUS
• Three years of home or community based nursing experience.
  • Salary Range $31.00-$40.60

Social Worker: Minimum requirements are:

• Bachelor's Degree in Social work, Psychology, Sociology or related field, PLUS
• Three years of related experience working with people in a helping profession with at least one year of home or community based experience.
  • Salary Range $32.88-$43.00

Job offer contingent upon successfully passing a drug screening and background check.
Essential Functions & Requirements
Qualification Requirements
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions
This position is directly responsible for implementing a collaborative process that assesses, plans, implements, coordinates, monitors and evaluates options and services required to meet the member's health and human service needs. The County Case Manager utilizes a process that is characterized by advocacy, communication and resource management that promotes quality and cost effective interventions and outcomes. Based on the needs and values of the member, and in collaboration with service providers, the County Case Manager links the member with appropriate providers and resources throughout the continuum of health and human services and care settings, including planned and unplanned transition of care, while ensuring that the care provided is safe, effective, client-centered, culturally and linguistically sensitive, appropriate, timely, efficient and equitable.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Comprehensive knowledge of the rules, regulations, policies, processes and procedures governing social work in a county setting; thorough knowledge of social, economic and health problems; thorough knowledge of institutions and the methods of the helping process; thorough knowledge of individual and group behavior; thorough knowledge of mental illnesses and ways to treat or recommend treatment to individuals or families dealing with mental illness; general knowledge of the laws pertaining to abuse, neglect and exploitation; general knowledge of the laws pertaining to social work and those dealing with clients with mental illnesses; comprehensive skill in crisis intervention; comprehensive skill creating and maintaining a database related to services and clients; comprehensive skill coordinating services for clients and evaluating where services may be lacking; comprehensive skill using standard accounting software; comprehensive skill creating and maintaining effective service plans and records of services provided; comprehensive skill composing general correspondence; thorough skill using standard office equipment and related hardware and software; ability to identify social problems and needs to assess the ability of individuals and families to utilize services in problem solving; ability to identify and clarify the acceptance of rights, responsibilities and differences of others; ability to make arithmetic computations using whole numbers, fractions and decimals; ability to deal with people who have various mental, socio-economic and risk levels; ability to deal with angry, hostile and sometimes unkempt persons in a calm and effective manner; ability to compute rates, ratios and percentages; ability to understand and apply governmental accounting practices in maintenance of financial records; ability to plan and organize work; ability to understand and interpret laws, policies and regulations; ability to solve problems within scope of responsibility; ability to prepare reports and maintain records; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with clients, service providers, staff, law enforcement agencies, court officials, federal agency representatives, medical facilities, financial agencies and the general public.
Physical Requirements
This work requires the frequent exertion of up to 25 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 50 pounds of force; work regularly requires sitting, speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms and repetitive motions, frequently requires walking and occasionally requires standing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling and lifting; work has standard vision requirements; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work occasionally requires exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to outdoor weather conditions, exposure to blood borne pathogens and domestic animals; and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).
Supplemental Information
Special requirements:
Valid Driver's License
Wage dependent upon qualifications
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01
There are multiple ways to meet the minimum qualifications for this position. You must meet all of the education, work experience and home & community based experience requirements in one of the classifications to be considered for the position. Please select the classification (question 2, 4 or 6) that describes your highest education and experience combination. Home and community based experience is defined as assisting individuals by identifying service choices that allow them to remain in their home or community. I have read and understand the above statement.

• Yes
• No

02
To meet the minimum qualifications to be considered for this position, do you have a Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or related field plus three years of related experience working with people in a helping profession with at least one year of home or community based experience.

• Yes
• No

03
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify your three years of related experience working with people in a helping profession and one year of home or community based experience? If No, type N/A.
04
To meet the minimum qualifications to be considered for this position, do you have a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing with Minnesota certification as a Public Health Nurse or eligible to complete PHN certification within 6 months of hire plus two years of work experience in nursing; at least one year must be home and community based experience.

• Yes
• No

05
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this two years of work experience in nursing and one year of home or community based experience? If No, type N/A.
06
To meet the minimum qualifications to be considered for this position, do you have a 2 or 3-year Registered Nursing Degree, current MN licensure as an RN plus three years of home or community based nursing experience.

• Yes
• No

07
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this three years of home or community based nursing experience? If No, type N/A.
08
All applicants please complete questions 9-11.
09
What is your highest level of education?

• High School Diploma/GED
• Some college but no degree
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree
• None of the above

10
What area of study is your degree in?

• Social Work
• Psychology
• Sociology
• Nursing
• Other or none

11
If you selected "other" above, please list your degree and area of study:
12
If you answered "yes" to question # 2 please answer questions 13-18. All others, please check the "Does not apply I have a Nursing background" box or enter N/A for questions 13-18.
13
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have as a Social Worker in a county human service agency? Convert any part-time experience to full-time equivalent (i.e. 20 hours per week for 2 years equals 1 year full-time).

• I do not have this experience
• Less than one year
• At least one year but less than two
• Two years or more
• Does not apply. I have a Nursing background

14
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this work experience? If none, type N/A.
15
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have in Social Services in a non-county agency? Convert any part-time experience to full-time equivalent (i.e. 20 hours per week for 2 years equals 1 year full-time).

• I do not have this experience
• Less than one year
• At least one year but less than two
• At least two years but less than three
• At least three years but less than four
• Four years or more
• Does not apply. I have a Nursing background

16
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this work experience? If none, type N/A.
17
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have as a Social Worker working with individuals with long-term or chronic-care needs? (Convert any part-time experience to full-time equivalent (i.e. 20 hours per week for 2 years equals 1 year full-time).

• I do not have this experience
• Less than one year
• At least one year but less than two
• At least two years but less than three
• Three years or more
• Does not apply. I have a Nursing background

18
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this work experience? If none, type N/A.
19
If you answered "yes" to questions # 4 or 6 because you have a Nursing background, please answer questions 20-26. All others please check the "Does not apply I have a Social Worker background" box or enter N/A for questions 20-26.
20
Please indicate which option best describes your education background:

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing with current Public Health Nurse Certification
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing, eligible to obtain Public Health Certification within 6 months of hire
• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing
• 3 year Registered Nurse Degree
• 2 year Registered Nurse Degree
• Does not apply. I have a Social Worker background
• None of the above

21
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have as a Public Health Nurse or Registered Nurse in a county health and human service agency? Convert any part-time experience to full-time equivalent (i.e. 20 hours per week for 2 years equals 1 year full-time).

• I do not have this experience
• Less than one year
• At least one year but less than two
• Two years or more
• Does not apply. I have a Social Worker background

22
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this work experience? If none, type N/A.
23
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have as a Nurse working for a non-county agency? Convert any part-time experience to full-time equivalent (i.e. 20 hours per week for 2 years equals 1 year full-time).

• I do not have this experience
• Less than one year
• At least one year but less than two
• At least two years but less than three
• At least three years but less than four
• Four years or more
• Does not apply. I have a Social Worker background

24
In response to your answer above, which employer(s) listed on your application can I refer to and verify this work experience? If none, type N/A.
25
How many years of full-time equivalent work experience do you have as a Nurse working with i...