Case Manager Corrections

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Position Title: Case Manager-Corrections

Location: Belfast, Maine

Pay: $25/hour

Shift: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm

Position Overview: The Case Manager is responsible for assisting residents with employment, housing, treatment, living skills and other issues for ensuring a successful transition into the community. Other duties include but are not limited to establishing and maintaining productive relationships with clients and their families, keeping case records, group facilitation of skill and cognitively based programs, and ensuring the all activities are conducted in compliance with the funding source, program, and agency policies and procedures.

Essential Job Functions:

1. Manage client caseload assigned according to the program contract.

2. Model appropriate behavior and maintain appropriate boundaries.

3. Build positive working relationships with clients while they are at the program.

4. Work cooperatively and coordinate with the program staff all aspects of the Aftercare case plan.

5. Facilitate support groups as designated by program director to address risk factors of residents.

6. Provide mentoring and support for the clients participating in the program.

7. Maintain accurate, up-to-date case records, logs and reports and submit to the Program Director.

8. Develop and maintain awareness of community resources to pursue programming and resource opportunities. Provide referrals to community resources as needed.

9. Participate in and contribute to other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

10. Complete client assessments as and when required.

11. Identify significant supports needed and develop a comprehensive, non-redundant case plan that addresses criminogenic risk factors and reflects contributions from multiple service providers, and modify the plan as client circumstances, policy mandates and needs dictate.

12. Ensure provision of gender responsive client services according to the case plan, including services such as drug and alcohol counseling/referrals and workshops, drug screening and monitoring, job development, and referral to community resources, and document those activities in each client's case file.

13. Involve the client's family with permission and where appropriate in the case management process.

14. Instruct clients in basic financial skills, including budgeting, savings, fiscal responsibility, and mechanisms to develop and build credit.

15. Assist clients in dealing with their total health concerns and teaching about the effective utilization or established health agencies and providing appropriate referrals for release.

16. Provide intervention services to clients in the program service area.

17. Coordinate and facilitate cognitive/behavioral and life skills groups for clients.

18. Maintains positive working relationships both internal and external.

19. Represent the agency in working with other community-based agencies to expand service networks.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications:

1. Bachelor's degree in social services or related field is preferred

2. A minimum of one year of relevant, transferrable experience as a case manager is required; experience working with program-defined population is preferred

3. Four years of experience working with offenders may be substituted for the bachelor's degree, or any combination of experience, training and education that provides required knowledge, skills, and abilities

4. Experience in individual case planning and management, resource development, and group facilitation

5. Ability to motivate a challenging population and achieve self-sufficiency outcomes

6. Excellent written, oral, organizational, and record-keeping skills

7. Ability to work flexible hours including some evenings and weekends

8. A valid state of Maine driver's license, a good driving record and a reliable vehicle is required

9. Strong computer skills, proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook.

Working Conditions: Regular office environment. The employee will be regularly required to sit, walk, stand; bend, reach with hands and arms; lift up to 25 lbs.; use hands repetitively to finger, handle, feel or operate standard office equipment; talk and hear, both in person and by telephone. Travel required to meetings, trainings or other events.

ADA Compliance:

Volunteers of America is an equal opportunity employer; and all employment-related decisions are made without consideration of individuals' race, sex, age, national origin, disability status or any other protected characteristic .

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings