What are the responsibilities and job description for the Case Manager - G120 - Juvenile Drug Court (Grant Position) position at Columbus Consolidated Government?
Major Duties and Responsibilities
This position is responsible for case management, monitoring, and referral of participants in the areas of substance abuse treatment, education, vocational, and life skills training, community resources, and treatment programs.
- Maintains a caseload of clients with complex personal and family problems; counsels youth referred to the program as minor offenders; screens youth to determine eligibility for services.
- Refers clients to appropriate agencies and programs.
- Conducts investigations and analyses of personal, family, and social problems of program participants.
- Prepares reports to determine eligibility, treatment plans, and monthly progress of each client.
- Records clients' personal histories, problems, and actions recommended or taken.
- Advises family and friends of clients of problems; visits clients in their homes; collects urine samples; recommends course of action based on test results.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
- Performs other related job duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of social work principles, techniques, and practices and their application to specific casework, group work, and community problems.
- Knowledge of individual and group counseling techniques.
- Knowledge of psychosocial, socioeconomic, and behavioral problems and their treatment.
- Knowledge of community resources for children.
- Knowledge of the problems and special needs of low-income youth.
- Knowledge of inner-city family, economic, and social systems.
- Skill in establishing rapport with clients and applying techniques of assessing psychosocial, behavioral, and psychological aspects of clients' problems.
- Skill in establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with administrative supervisors, team members, and client families.
- Skill in analyzing and resolving problems.
- Skill in organizing work, setting priorities, meeting critical deadlines, and following up on assignments with a minimum of direction.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
- Ability to work independently and with minimal supervision.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, Behavioral Science or related field is required. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.
Physical Requirements
The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, walking, or driving. The employee must occasionally lift light objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
Balancing – maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.- Crouching – bending body forward by bending leg, spine.
- Grasping – applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling – picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 – perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Kneeling – bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting – raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity – picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Mental Acuity – ability to make rational decisions through sound logic, deductive reasoning.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing – use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching – extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion – substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking – expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Standing – for sustained periods of time.
- Stooping – bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The work is typically performed an office, library, computer room, school, home, business, treatment facility, or outdoors.
