Care Manager
Paragon Behavioral Health Connections
Care Manager
Paragon Behavioral Health Connections
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado
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💰 $26 - $31 per hour
Job Level
Junior
About the role
- Conduct brief behavioral health assessments and screening to determine eligibility, treatment needs, and treatment options
- Assist in providing support for clients’ activities of daily living and parenting supports to promote positive relationships, structure, and routines
- Assist clients in establishing and achieving individualized treatment plan goals
- Provide crisis intervention
- Facilitate substance use groups and psychoeducational supports
- Direct clients in arranging necessary community support services (mental health services, public assistance, vocational training, etc.)
- Document all direct and indirect contacts with youth, families, and community support services
- Develop service plans and transition plans specifying goals and actions to address member needs
- Submit progress summaries to referring agencies and maintain weekly contact with these agencies
- Travel to client homes and provide in-community services as required
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements
- A confirmed bachelor’s degree in Counseling, Social Work, or related field (Required)
- Behavioral health: 1 year experience (Required)
- Case management: 1 year experience (Required)
- Valid driver’s license and proof of automobile insurance (Required)
- Comfortable providing in-home services and traveling to client homes and community (Required)
- Required to provide 2-3 evenings per week between 4-7 pm or 3-4 hours on a weekend (Sat or Sun.)
- Strong written and oral communication skills via phone and face-to-face
- Understand HIPAA, protected health information, and confidentiality
- Crisis intervention skills
- Ability to conduct brief behavioral health assessments and screening
- Experience with service plan development, documentation, and progress summaries
- Ability to facilitate substance use groups and psychoeducational supports
- Knowledge of parenting skills, childhood developmental stages
- Strong conflict resolution skills
- Practice cultural awareness and a commitment to diversity and equity
- Demonstrates rational decision-making skills
- Bilingual Spanish speaking (Preferred)
