Clinical Case Manager CRSS

Description

Description: Provide supportive services to Renaissance Social Services, Inc.’s clients and residents. Services include attending to the psychosocial, health, financial, recreational, nutritional, and housing needs of the clients.

Job duties include but are not limited to:

• Providing mental health services in the community.
• Providing Crisis Intervention services as needed.
• Identifying client and resident in need of needs, including barriers to receiving appropriate services and assisting with effective problem solving to address issues.
• Providing service planning, coordination, and implementation of services needed.
• Providing information, linkage, referral and advocacy for clients and residents with agencies in the community, including crises intervention services when needed.
• Working with clients and residents to increase their skills and income, improve their self-determination, and maintain residential stability.
• Maintaining the confidentiality of client information in any written, oral, or electronic form including, but not limited to, health information, HIV/AIDS status, and disability information. Releasing such information only as needed and with the proper release from the client unless mandated by law.
• Reporting all incidents of abuse, and/or neglect as required by state law.
• Maintaining accurate and up-to-date records and files on all clients and residents receiving services, including maintaining records necessary to fulfill grant requirements.
• Coordinating the provision of appropriate services from other providers from the community at buildings at which clients and residents are living.
• Working cooperatively with building management to ensure residential stability of clients and residents.
• Identifying and developing training opportunities for clients and residents.
• Completing required documentation and statistics in a timely manner.

Qualifications

Requirements: Minimum of a high school diploma and current Illinois CRSS certification. Prefer two years of recent experience with low–income families in a social services capacity.

Must have the ability to relate appropriately and effectively with residents and families, to other staff and to personnel of other community agencies; skills necessary to organize and document services in a written format; knowledge of and willingness to match programs and services appropriate for clients and residents; ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships; ability to work independently and as a member of an interdisciplinary team.