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WellPower values and is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to ending bias and discrimination in our community and ensuring equity within all aspects of our organization. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, transfer, or promotion opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Clinical Case Managers At the Solutions Center, this position will provide comprehensive psychological and behavioral case management to people we serve currently utilizing crisis services. This support is designed to assist in the crisis stabilization of each mental health consumer’s functioning before returning to the community. Assesses, supports, monitors, and follows up with consumer’s ability to meet basic needs in moving toward recovery. Responsible for all clinical documentation of consumer interaction.
Pay Range & Benefits:
CMI - $27.85/hr. - $57,928 annually (Bachelor’s degree)
CMII - $28.89/hr. - $60,091 annually (Master’s Degree)
Language Differential - $1hr - $2.50/hr for bilingual proficiency in Spanish & ASL
WellPower is committed to fair and equitable hiring with salaries based on relevant factors, such as work experience, education, and certification/licensure (rather than wage history). Toward the principle of equal pay for equal work, we post and hire within defined hiring salary ranges. We ask all applicants to carefully review the hiring salary range for each posted job opportunity, as we will not hire outside the predetermined range.
All full-time, benefits eligible employees will be eligible for WellPower’s benefits plan. For a full description of benefit offerings, please visit: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/.
Responsibilities & Duties:
o Help consumers currently receiving crisis support at the Behavioral Health Solutions Center in meeting basic needs for food, clothing, shelter, personal safety, and general medical and dental care, and assist them with applications for income, medical, housing, or other benefits which they may need and to which they are entitled. Identify consumers for whom establishment of a protective payee-ship is necessary and arrange this assistance.
o Ensure consumers access to needed services and community resources by arranging future transportation at discharge from crisis services.
o Provide comprehensive psychosocial services that include a continuum of high and low intensity services designed to improve or maintain consumers’ abilities to function in normal social roles. These will include, but be limited to, services which:
§ Help consumers evaluate both their strengths and symptoms, and facilitate in consumers setting their own goals, and plan for appropriate services;
§ Guide and instruct consumers in daily living skills such as medication use, diet, exercise, personal hygiene, shopping, cooking, budgeting, housekeeping, use of transportation, and other community services;
§ Help consumers develop social skills, interests, and leisure time activities to provide a sense of participation and personal worth, including opportunities for age appropriate, culturally appropriate daytime and evening activities;
§ Help consumers find and make use of appropriate employment opportunities, vocational rehabilitation services, or supported work environments where appropriate;
§ Assist consumers who need special living arrangements in locating a rehabilitative or supportive housing arrangement. The choices should be broad enough to allow each consumer and opportunity to live in an atmosphere offering the degree of support necessary, while also providing incentives and encouragement for consumers to assume increasing responsibilities for their lives;
§ Offer support, assistance, consultation, and education to families, friends, landlords, employers, community agencies, and others who come into contact with consumers, in order to maximize benefits and minimize problems associated with the presence of these persons in the community;
o Identify and work with potential natural support systems such as neighborhood networks, churches, and community organizations.
o Make full utilization of the consumer’s support systems in order to encourage treatment program engagement.
o Reach out to program eligible consumers, inform them of and educate them about available services at WellPower and in the community.
o Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
o Other duties as assigned.
Requirements & Qualifications:
Education:
Bachelor Degree in psychology, social work, or other related human services degree.
Must have valid Colorado Drivers license and a recent clean driving record. Experience:
Minimum one-year experience in mental health or human services preferred.
Why else might you want to consider working at WellPower?
Tuberculosis (TB) screening, testing - TB screening and testing, is required and must be completed prior to hire ( i.e., preplacement), and maintained during employment.
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