Targeted Case Manager

Targeted Case Manager Job Summary:

The Case Manager will be responsible for assigning, monitoring, and organizing cases for social work. They will be directly involved in the lives of their clients, and provide resources and assistance. Planning health services, working with social workers and doctors, and scheduling treatment or recovery is all in a day's work. The Case Manager must be highly organized, empathetic, compassionate, nonjudgmental, and eager to help children and vulnerable adults. ( This is not a job but a CAREER ). (PTO BENEFITS) ARE INCLUDED.

**This is an Urgent opportunity**

Targeted Case Manager Job Duties:

Targeted case management services covered under this administrative regulation shall:

• Be services furnished to assist a recipient in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, or other services.
• Include a comprehensive assessment and periodic reassessments of the recipient’s needs to determine the need for any medical, educational, social, or other services.
• The development and periodic revision of a specific care plan for the recipient.
• A referral or related activities to help the recipient obtain needed services.
• Monitoring or follow-up activities.
• Contacts with non-recipients who are directly related to help with identifying the recipient’s needs and care for the purpose of a Helping the recipient access services.
• Identifying supports necessary to enable the recipient to obtain services.
• Providing a Case Manager with useful input regarding the recipient’s past or current functioning, symptoms, adherence to treatment, or other information relevant to the recipient’s behavioral health condition.
• Alerting a Case Manager to a change in the recipient’s needs.
• An assessment or reassessment shall include: 1. Taking the recipient’s history; 2. Identifying the recipient’s strengths and needs and completing related documentation; and 3. Gathering information from other sources including family members, medical providers, social workers, or educators to form a complete assessment of the recipient.
• A face-to-face assessment or reassessment shall be completed: 1. At least annually; or 2. More often if needed based on changes in the recipient’s condition.

Targeted Case Manager Detailed Job Summary:

The development and periodic revision of the recipient’s care plan shall: (a) Specify the goals and actions to address the medical, social, educational, or other services needed by the recipient; (b) Include ensuring the active participation of the recipient and working with the recipient, the recipient’s authorized health care decision maker, or others to develop the goals; and (c) Identify a course of action to respond to the assessed needs of the recipient. (4) A referral or related activities shall include activities that help link the recipient with medical providers, social providers, educational providers, or other programs and services that are capable of providing needed services to: (a) Address the identified needs; and (b) Achieve goals specified in the care plan. (5)(a) Monitoring and follow-up activities shall: 1. Be activities and contacts that: a. Are necessary to ensure that the recipient’s care plan is implemented; b. Adequately address the recipient’s strengths and needs; and c. May be with the recipient, the recipient’s family members, the recipient’s service providers, or other entities or individuals; 2. Be conducted as frequently as necessary; and 3. Include making necessary adjustments in the recipient’s care plan and service arrangements with providers. (b) Monitoring shall: 1. Occur at least once every three (3) months; 2. Be face-to-face; and 3. Determine if: a. The services are being furnished in accordance with the recipient’s care plan; b. The services in the recipient’s care plan are adequate to meet the recipient’s needs; and c. Changes in the needs or status of the recipient are reflected in the care service plan.