Reentry Case Manager

About Casa Esperanza

Casa Esperanza, Inc. is a bilingual / bicultural behavioral health treatment provider serving Boston and the Merrimack Valley. Our mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness, and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness and discrimination; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care. Casa Esperanza has an operating budget of $15 million and more than $12.5 million in assets.

About the role

Casa Esperanza seeks a dynamic, energetic individual who is passionate about delivering recovery and wellness-oriented community-based case management and care coordination for people living with addiction, mental health, and cooccurring disorders as part of our Casa Community Support Program.

The Casa Community Support Program (CSP) addresses the health-related social needs of individuals living with substance use and co-occurring behavioral health disorders to help them thrive and live successfully in the community. Reentry Case Management delivers intensive case management, including assertive outreach, service coordination, monitoring, and follow-up, to individuals who are justice-involved, including re-entry, parole, and / or probation. The Reentry Case Manager works with the CasaCare multidisciplinary team to provide care coordination for individuals as part of the CasaCare integrated care model, which includes primary care, mental health, and addiction treatment.

The Reentry Case Manager must be able to initiate and complete work independently to fulfill the responsibilities of the job and work collaboratively with all members of the care team. With a career at Casa, you will be joining a vibrant team of dedicated and talented people. While there may be opportunities for occasional work from home, this is primarily an in-person, community-based role that requires travel, providing transportation for patients, and in-office time.

What you'll do

Service Delivery

• Deliver services in 1) a linguistically appropriate and culturally competent manner that embraces the diversity of people's identities, including racial, ethnic, gender / gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, and disability, including intellectual disability; and 2) an integrated manner that meets the needs of individuals with co-occurring substance use disorder and mental health conditions, honoring their chosen pathway to ending homelessness.
• If the client is coming from a 24-hour behavioral health level of care, including inpatient and diversionary providers, the program will participate, as appropriate, in member discharge planning at the referring provider.
• Conduct biopsychosocial assessment for each client, including a comprehensive assessment of health-related social needs, including those related to justice involvement, and generate individualized service plans that reflect each client’s unique strengths (including community and family strengths), needs, abilities, preferences, motivation, and readiness, as appropriate.
• Conduct discharge planning upon admission of the client, which includes social supports, care providers, service agencies, parole or probation staff if applicable, crisis prevention, and safety planning.
• Assume primary case management responsibilities for clients after assessment and maintain a caseload of 20 individuals.
• Provide skill-building and wellness education, both individually and in group settings, regarding substance abuse, mental health, HIV, and other health literacy and wellness information to clients and their family members.
• Connect clients to SUD and mental health treatment, recovery support services, supported employment and / or vocational and education services, housing supports, and HIV services at Casa Esperanza and at other agencies across Greater Boston.
• Provide comprehensive coordination across Casa programs and externally across the network of services.
• Provide one-to-one client orientation to support client adherence to the goals in the Individual Service Plan.
• Provide services that actively support the reentry process, including 1) ensuring that the service plan supports the client’s probation and parole supervision plan, as applicable; and 2) addressing barriers to preventing recidivism in the service plan goals, including interventions and strategies for developing alternative behaviors.
• Support patients in securing appropriate services such as medical, dental, benefits programs such as SSI, HDAP, SNAP, housing, financial, legal, education, training, employment, life skills, peer support, family support, and other services.
• Coordinate with the Housing Case Manager to support the housing search process, including applications for supportive or transitional housing.
• Provide access to peer support and peer-reinforced group interventions.
• Work closely with the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) on all aspects of care planning, including assessments, transition, and discharge planning, to engage, retain, and monitor clients in care.
• Conduct intensive outreach efforts to reengage or maintain engagement with clients, including at least four instances of case-related work per client over a 30-day period, at least one of which must be a direct connection with the client.
• Work closely with the Patient Access teams to coordinate enrolling clients into Reentry services.
• Other duties as assigned.

Administrative & Quality Assurance

Qualifications

Schedule

Full-Time

Must have availability to cover schedules during a Monday-Friday workweek, between 8am - 8pm, and one Saturday per month.

What we offer :

Casa Esperanza Benefits Package :

Physical & Mental Requirements

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to walk, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and / or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.

At Casa Esperanza, Inc., the health and safety of our people is our number one priority. That’s why all offers of employment are contingent on the candidate showing proof of being fully vaccinated against COVID 19 (currently one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine or two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine and boosted, when eligible) to pass the pre-employment requirements. Individuals with medical issues or religious beliefs that prevent them from getting the vaccine may request an exemption from the vaccine requirement.

Casa Esperanza’s EEO Statement

Casa Esperanza, Inc. values its diverse workplace and encourages women, people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, older members of society, and others from minority groups and diverse backgrounds to apply.

We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job-related qualifications and abilities. Casa Esperanza, Inc also has a longstanding policy of providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of employment discrimination, including harassment, because of race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.  All employees, interns, volunteers and contractors of Casa Esperanza, Inc. are responsible for maintaining a work culture free from discrimination and harassment by treating others with kindness and respect.

Casa Esperanza, Inc. also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief, in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about an accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email  hr@casaesperanza.org .

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