MENTAL HEALTH COURT CLINICAL CASE MANAGER

MENTAL HEALTH COURT CLINICAL CASE MANAGER

Purpose of Job

This classification aims to assist the Mental Health Court Team with participants' progress to ensure participants comply with Mental Health Court program requirements. Duties include but are not limited to: determining mental health eligibility for all potential participants referred, completing an intake/initial case management plan for incoming participants, making service and level of care recommendations, linking, monitoring, and coordinating participants to identified services and supports, and collaborate with treatment providers to assure that participants are attending and making progress. The MHCCCM will create Case Management Plans for each participant for each Program Phase, identifying the requirements to which the participant will be held and the competencies they are expected to achieve in each phase of the program. The MHCCCM will maintain case notes in TNWITS and within internal standardized records documentation.

Essential Functions

The Mental Health Court Clinical Case Manager is responsible for the following essential functions:

• Conduct initial screening of potential participants. Conduct mental health screening, including a clinical Summary based on TNRAS (Training and Certification provided by TDMHSAS Grant), CAGE-AIDE, Modified Mini Screen (MMS), Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire (ACE), and Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS), and prepare solution-focused Case Management Plans.


• Link program participants to community mental health services for treatment and care. Additionally, link participants with a continuum of care, including primary health services and public health services.


• Complete detailed participant progress reports/notes. Continual monitoring and case management plan modification for phase progression.


• Teach, role model, and coach participants on how to use resources and navigate or exercise skills needed for managing mental health symptoms and/or substance use or medication (if applicable) and hold participants accountable for their actions.


• Teach, role model, and coach effective communication with doctors, therapists, and attributes needed to attain and maintain employment and housing.


• Develop relationships and linkages with mental health agencies, treatment providers, harm reduction service providers, primary healthcare providers, specialty healthcare providers, hospital partners, and other community agencies.

Additional Job Functions

• Performs other related duties as required.


• Participate and lead continuous improvement initiatives.


• Participate in research and program evaluation.


• Provide statistics as requested by administration.


• Facilitate with Treatment Service Provider Partners onboarding and acceptance.


• Assistance with housing stabilization, if applicable.


• Meets with assigned Phase 1-5 participants as outlined in the KCMHC program.


• Monitor's participant's activities, work status, and living arrangements.


• Assists with the transportation coordination and/or transportation when applicable for Mental Health Court participants.


• Attends all Mental Health Court Staffing Sessions.


• Serves as liaison between the court, law enforcement agencies, treatment provider partners, community correction/probation, and community.


• Maintain continuing education units as required by the state.


• Should attend the Annual State and/or National Drug Court Conference.

Minimum Training & Qualifications

• Master's or Doctorate Degree in Social Work.


• Social work clinical experience, minimum of five years.


• Make evidence-based decisions.


• Ability to focus and demonstrate excellent attention to detail.


• Must be proficient in Windows OS and Microsoft Office.


• Must have and maintain a valid Tennessee Driver's License.

Competencies

• Ensure regular, punctual attendance during scheduled work hours.


• Basic understanding of computers, printers, and other office equipment.


• Ability to focus and demonstrate great attention to detail.


• Convey data and information and make evidence-based decisions.


• Ability to work cooperatively as a team member.


• High level of accountability and professionalism to include maintaining strict confidentiality and a positive, collaborative, supportive attitude.

Physical Requirements

This position requires the following physical abilities:

• Speak to convey or exchange information with co-workers and other team members.


• Read a variety of informational documentation.


• Write with proper format, punctuation, spelling, and grammar, using all parts of speech.


• Speak with and before others with poise, voice control, and confidence using correct English and a well-modulated voice.


• Work requires long periods of standing, walking, and assisting participants


• Involves extensive contact with mental health consumers and/or combative participants and/or family members.


• Involves home visits, employment visits, case management, and attention to detail.


• May require occasional travel and on-call duties.

Occupational Hazards

• Involves potential exposure to infectious diseases.

Knox County Government is an Equal Opportunity Employer. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Knox County Government may provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities and encourages both prospective and current employees to discuss potential accommodations with the employer.

Type : INTERNAL & EXTERNAL

Location : JUDGES

Posting Start : 12/19/2024

Posting End : 01/06/2025

MINIMUM HOURLY RATE: $35.90