Sr Case Manager; 4411-605-N

at  Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens

For over 125 years, Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens has been providing quality social services to the neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens, and currently offers 160-plus programs and services for children, youth, adults, seniors, and those struggling with mental illness.
The Kingsborough Transitional Team provides intensive wraparound services for the severely chronically mentally ill with 6-9 months of intensive case management. Services include counseling, coordination of psychiatric and medical care, community access to services, nursing and medication management.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferable in psychology, social work, sociology.
• New York State Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree
• Case management work experience in a social service agency, preferable serving a mental health population
• Knowledge of mental illness and the needs of individual living with severe and persistent mental illness.
• Knowledge of treatment, rehabilitation, and community support programs as they relate to consumers/residents, families, and staff.
• Knowledge of techniques for identifying and preventing potentially violent behavior, including crisis management techniques.
• Ability to develop, evaluate, implement and modify a clinical treatment intervention to meet the needs of individual clients.
• Strong oral and written communication abilities.
• Must be able to share staff rotation for emergency on-call and office coverage.
• Regularly required to talk, hear, walk, stand & sit.
• Able to lift up to 10 pounds.
• Able to climb stairs, bend, stretch and bend to retrieve files.
• Able to travel to multiple locations as needed.

• Engage in-patient clients at acute care hospitals, state psychiatric centers or state operated residences and participate in the coordination of their discharge.
• Provide intensive emotional and practical support to clients as they transition back into their communities and into a support housing living environment.
• Conduct home visits as assigned.
• Develop short term person centered treatment plans to assist client towards achieving their goals.
• Monitor and record client’s progress with respect to treatment goals.
• Instruct individuals and provide assistance in attending to personal hygiene, grooming, nutrition and daily living.
• Support clients in sustaining community tenure by ensuring strong linkage to community based treatment programs and resources.
• Accompany clients to appointments with community based treatment providers and other services as needed.
• Comply with all required in-service training and staff development.
• Supervise in meal preparation, laundry and light housekeeping tasks and provide assistance.
• Provide support, as needed, to the peers on the team
• Other duties assigned as needed