Supp Placement Specialist

Position Overview:

Bachelors Degree Required

Two years of successful benefits application experience are required.

Job Summary

The Behavioral Health Supported Placement Specialist is responsible for ensuring new Care Resource patients accessing Behavioral Health and Individual Placement Services for the first time are properly enrolled and provided with adequate options to engage and remain in care with the agency. S/he must maximize access to agency and community services aimed at improving their overall behavioral and medical health as well as improve their overall employment services. S/he assists with linking individuals to services for the treatment of behavioral health or substance use disorders.  S/he works with individuals in linking them to vocational rehabilitation services for job skill development, assist individuals in developing necessary employment skills to apply for and retain viable employment. S/he develops community relationships with viable employers to link individuals to improve and sustain successful employment. 

Essential Job Responsibilities

Caseload Management:

Engages, counsels, manages, motivates, and effectively works with high-risk, vulnerable patient populations in the office and community setting.

Demonstrates and maintains expertise in the needs of underserved and vulnerable populations. 

Creates rapport through patient interaction to facilitate services access planning and affordability options.

Engages individuals and establishes trusting, collaborative relationships directed toward the goal of competitive employment in community job settings with other workers who do not necessarily have disabilities. 

Assists clients in obtaining information about their benefits (e.g., SSI, Medicaid, etc.) and how they will be affected by employment for clients to make good decisions about employment opportunities. 

Refers clients to benefits counseling, as needed. 

Helps clients report earnings, as needed. 

Assesses clients' vocational functioning on ongoing basis utilizing background information and work experiences. With the client's permission, provides education and support to family members. Discusses client's preference for disclosure of psychiatric status to employers.

Conducts job development and job search activities directed toward positions that are individualized to the interests and uniqueness of the people on his/her caseload, following the principles and procedures of IPS supported employment.

In coordination with medical department and healthcare marketing unit, ensures all new patients are adequately registered and financial eligibility challenges are addressed for the patients to return for their follow up appointments.

Orients each assigned patient every time to agency services and provides information about how to access needed services.

In coordination with the medical department ensures new patients assigned by managed care plans are properly registered and oriented to agency services.

Providing individual and/or group intervention to address substance use and other high-risk factors, including linkage to the Behavioral Health Department and other community resources, aftercare/discharge planning, and follow-up.

Provide support for linkage and adherence to Medical and Behavioral Health care.

Provides case management support including following-up on the status of assessments performed, follow-up on the status of service of process, communicating regularly with treatment facilities to obtain status updates, tracking progress, addressing specific needs of respondents ordered to treatment by the Court, coordinating the