Case Manager-(HRA) El Rio II

• Ensure that each client is receiving appropriate and effective case management services.
• Conduct comprehensive assessments and develop comprehensive service plans that identify mutually agreed upon long and short-term goals.
• Conduct face to face contacts (home visits/office visits) as specified in the service plan(s); with a minimum of one home visit  and one contact per week.
• Provide assistance in accessing primary medical care; assistance with adherence to medication regiments; teach activities for daily living; nutritional services; recreation programs; assistance in employment assessments, training, and private sector placement services; prevention with positives; and other necessary services to clients to increase their capacity for independent living. 
• Conduct reassessments and review service plans as needed on a quarterly basis to ensure that services are appropriate for the clients’ current needs.
• Ensures that each client has psychosocial.
• Provide crisis intervention to clients and their families as needed.
• Maintain ongoing awareness of clients’ medical conditions so that services are appropriate to changing needs.
• Arrange support and home health care services as necessary, making referrals to medical, home care, mental health and/or substance abuse services.
• Provide counseling and orientation regarding tenant’s rights and responsibilities to maintain and retain housing.
• Assist clients in moving from hospitals, nursing homes or other locations into their apartments, and provide transportation when necessary.
• In collaboration with vocational counselors and entitlement specialists provide advocacy & referrals to educational, training and/or employment programs and/or job placement in the private sector.
• Assist clients in locating alternative housing options, when a client’s health so requires.
• Provide and coordinate all supportive services as needed.
• Collaborate with all providers within and outside of Comunilife involved with the client/family. 
• Maintain regular personal contact, developing a trusting working relationship with clients in order to monitor physical and emotional capacity for independent living.
• Maintain and complete required documentation including all contacts made with the client and any contact on their behalf.
• Participate in weekly supervision.
• Submit a weekly schedule of field visits.
• Participate in mandated training workshops, seminars, and case presentations as well as meetings with peers and supervisors.

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