Full-Time Care Manager - WES Pediatrics (1st Shift)
Job Description: The Care Manager works as part of a comprehensive treatment team of professionals focused on the stabilization and care of individuals on our WellStone Emergencies Services - Pediatrics unit. Case Managers specifically support the team in identifying resources to assist youth and families during the treatment and after discharge. This is a full-time, salaried position available working Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm.
What you’ll be doing:
- Provide in-patient case management services.
- Provide direct services to clients experiencing a mental health crisis, to address needs that may have been unmet, as well as information about the continuum of care.
- Provide follow-up progress as per need of the client to treatment team members.
- Provide Basic Living Skills training when necessary.
- Assist clients with obtaining medication.
- Monitor medication compliance, maintain awareness of common side effects, and ensure the client is taking medication as directed.
- Provide traditional case management services and collateral services such as transportation to appointments, referral agencies, etc.
- Maintain high-quality client documentation and records management through electronic charting.
- Monitor the care and services clients receive in a residential setting.
- Develop and implement an Individual Service Plan which consists of goals, resources, and interventions.
- Revise client’s goals once met or progress as they occur.
- Assist clients experiencing mental health crises and arrange for such assistance from other professional or personal caregivers.
- Perform incidental care to families of the mentally ill and assist those family members in understanding the mental illness.
- Complete other duties as assigned.
This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job and is not designed to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities that are required of the employee as they may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.