What are the responsibilities and job description for the Targeted Case Manager position at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch?
Job Title: Targeted Case Manager
About the Role
As a Targeted Case Manager at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, you will play a vital role in managing all aspects of a youth's case while providing critical community resources to support youth and families. You will provide wrap-around support for families while working collaboratively with current and prospective services to meet any youth's complex needs.
Daily Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Required Abilities/Skills:
About the Role
As a Targeted Case Manager at Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, you will play a vital role in managing all aspects of a youth's case while providing critical community resources to support youth and families. You will provide wrap-around support for families while working collaboratively with current and prospective services to meet any youth's complex needs.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Advocate, support, and guide youth and families in obtaining the needed services including advocacy, assessing youth and family's needs, referring to services, creating and implementing service plans, and monitoring services of the youth and family.
- Maintain contact with other service providers to ensure the unique needs of the youth and family are best met.
- Research the various services offered within the community to identify services that would best meet the unique and individual needs of youth and families.
- Collaborate with the youth, the youth's family, and other professionals involved to develop a treatment/service plan that addresses the specific needs of the youth including facilitating and leading the treatment team meetings.
- Complete, update, and maintain all necessary documentation within the guidelines set by COA, Montana ARM's, Contracts, and YBGR Policy and Procedures.
Qualifications:
- 21 years old or older
- Criminal / Child Abuse Clearance: Must pass criminal record and child abuse registry background check as required by the State of Montana.
- Education: Bachelor's degree in human services related field of study. A combination of previous professional experience and formal education from an accredited university may be considered in lieu of degree.
Required Abilities/Skills:
- Ability to relate and build rapport with youth and families therapeutically while serving as a positive role model.
- Knowledge of and ability to maintain professional therapeutic boundaries and confidentiality with youth and families.
- Possess the ability to work with youth and families in multiple settings, such as within the school, home, and community.
- Ability to work in cooperation and collaboration with the treatment team.
- Display regular, predictable, and reliable attendance at work.
- Excellent active listening skills.
- The ability to complete forms within an electronic Medical Health Record System typing at least 35 words per minute while using a keyboard and mouse.
- Demonstrate sound & ethical judgment and decision-making skills.
- Demonstrate being self-motivated, self-disciplined, and diligent with forward thinking.
- Demonstrate the ability to think of their team over self and define success collectively rather than individually.
- The ability to effectively interact and communicate with others.
- Demonstrate the following values
- Faith - is being sure of successfully achieving our mission, based upon our trust in a loving creator.
- Integrity - doing what is right, putting the needs of others above your own, and living by the highest values.
- Relationship - being committed to one another in a mutually respectful, dignified, healthy, and honoring manner.
- Stewardship is the use of any resource or talent entrusted to YBGR to fulfill the mission and values.
