Clinical Case Manager - SAGE - DESC

Clinical Case Manager - SAGE Seattle, WA (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=515+Third+Avenue+Seattle+WA+USA+98104) -SAGE (Support, Advocacy, Growth, Employment) Apply Job Type Full-time Description **Pay Range:** CM1 Scale: $71,662.56 - $79,131.12 annually (BA Equivalency, see "Education and Experience Requirements" below), CM2 Scale: $79,579.44 - $87,886.56 annually for MHP qualifying candidates. **Days Off:** Saturday and Sunday **Shift:** Office Day **Insurance Benefits:** Dental, Life, Long-term Disability, Medical (no premiums/payroll deductions for employee coverage) **Other Benefits:** Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Account (FSA), ORCA card subsidy, Paid Time Off (34 days per year), Retirement Plan **JOB DEFINITION:** Support, Advocacy, Growth and Employment (SAGE) is DESC's comprehensive outpatient mental health program. SAGE intake specialists, case managers, psychiatrists and nurses assist adults with severe and persistent mental illness in their journey towards recovery. Long-term case management services are provided including help with obtaining and maintaining housing, improving clinical and social stability, and enriching their level of independence and self-sufficiency. SAGE services are licensed under the Washington State Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery and are provided under contract with King County Mental Health, Chemical Abuse & Dependency Services Division. Services are provided within a Recovery model. **MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:** **Case Management:** + Participate as a member of a multi-disciplinary and multi-departmental team providing on-going case management services to adults with severe and persistent mental illnesses. + Collaborate with DESC's Scattered Sites Supportive Housing team in the development of client care and housing retention plans. + Provide outreach and engagement services to assigned clients, to initially engage clients and maintain working relationships. + Conduct psychosocial assessments; develop goal planners with consumer participation; facilitate linkages to collaborative resources when appropriate. + Assume primary responsibility for coordinating all aspects of consumers' support and goal planners. This includes: providing and/or coordinating the delivery of psychiatric treatment; substance abuse treatment; 24-hour support services; and performing acute case management to facilitate consumer access to food, clothing, housing, medical care, financial assistance and vocational training or employment. + Advocate for consumers' access to community resources and services, ensuring that consumers' needs are met and rights maintained; consult and collaborate with community providers to ensure continuity of care. + Travel locally to outreach consumers; make home visits and assist with home inspections, annual recertifications, address and report any maintenance related concerns and housing retention barriers. + Provide crisis intervention and risk assessment; tolerate unusual or unpleasant behavior. + Provide counseling, as qualified. + Fulfill role of protective payee for some consumers on behalf of the agency, creating monthly budgets with consumers, distributing funds, and assisting with purchases. + Establish and maintain professional relationships with landlords and property managers, assisting in building rule enforcement and lease compliance as necessary. + Document services provided and adhere to strict administrative deadlines **Unit Mitigation:** Participate in the planning, organizing and facilitating of unit mitigations for clients on your caseload. Unit mitigations are coordinated efforts to support clients with maintaining healthy living conditions. This can include but is not limited to attending care conferences related to unit mitigation, outreaching and supporting clients in their residential units with tools and skills to maintain their units, coordinating with Housing staff to ensure proper work orders are filed in a timely manner, participating in cleaning out clients' units, and documenting barriers to unit mitigation. **Other duties & responsibilities:** + Participate in psychiatric consultation, supervision, program meetings and in-service trainings; participate in clinical reviews and case conferences for consumers on caseload. + Attend external and internal trainings related to landlord/tenant laws, housing vouchers and/or other relevant topics. + Comply with the agency's clinical accountability policies and procedures; maintain current and complete clinical and administrative records; participate in quality assurance reviews when assigned. + Comply with applicable program research and evaluation procedures. + Other duties as assigned. Requirements **MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:** + Interest in and experience working with homeless, mentally ill, and/or chemically dependent individuals. + Interest in or experience working with consumers who are difficult to engage and maintain in traditional mental health programs. + Ability to meet state requirements for registration as a counselor. + Knowledge of Recovery focused, strengths-based work in mental health. + Knowledge of Harm Reduction strategies. + Ability to work effectively with clients displaying a wide range of unpleasant and/or bizarre behaviors. + Ability to communicate and work effectively with staff from various backgrounds. + Subscribe to the philosophy of cooperation and continuity across programs and of consideration and respect for consumers. + Washington State Driver's License and insurable driving record. **EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:** 1. Relevant bachelor's degree in social work, psychology, or related behavioral science, OR 2. A combination of 1 year* of relevant paid work experience and demonstration of the ability to perform required job duties. *Internal applicants in direct, client facing positions can substitute 6 months of experience in lieu of 1 year **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:** + Bilingual in Spanish and English. + Bicultural background/experience and/or Qualified Minority Mental Health Specialist designation. Salary Description $71,662.56 - $79,131.12 annually