Case Manager ACT Team

Sign-On Bonus $1500

Salary Range - $22.50 per hour - $26.80 per hour (Including ACT Premium)

Job Summary
Under the direction of the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program Manager, the Behavioral Health Specialist Case Manager participates on the Clinical Team, working with severe and persistently mentally ill adults. The major functions include assessment, service plan development, linking and coordinating of services within the ACT fidelity model. Further responsibilities include case file management; intensive outreach; crisis intervention; emergency, on-call participation; community consultation; and interdisciplinary team treatment planning.

Job Duties and Responsibilities
 Provides individualized support or care coordination of healthcare, behavioral healthcare, and non-healthcare services. ACT case management requires collateral contacts with clients' support systems, which is also required to be delivered in all settings that meet the individual's needs.
 Regularly administers the PHQ-9, GAD-7, BAM, CAGE, Ohio Outcomes Form and questionnaires used to monitor Social Determents of Health, and other outcomes tools to monitor treatment outcomes and trigger needed referrals.
 Updates Adults Needs Standard Assessment(s) (ANSA) needed to determine eligibility for services.
 Completes staging documentation to present at weekly team staging meetings.
 Provides services to clients as related to social determinants of health including, but not limited to:
 housing/neighborhood/environmental needs;
 social supports/community and peer needs;
 economic needs;  education and vocational needs;
 regularly monitors client status and service utilization to ensure that appropriate level of care is maintained;
 works with clients to develop individualized treatment plans and performs treatment plan reviews and updates;
 communicates vital treatment information from external providers to The Centers treatment team in order to coordinate client care’
 works on a multidisciplinary service team, in collaboration with nurses, physicians, and pharmacists to achieve positive client health outcomes;
 actively assists clients in obtaining and maintaining comprehensive healthcare;
 attends medical appointments with clients as needed. Transports and/or accompanies clients to appointments as needed;
 provides ongoing communication to client, healthcare teams, and client’s support network to ensure follow-up and coordinated treatment; and
 performs basic administrative tasks related to the job, which includes but is not limited to completing clinical records, forms, and reports and completing and posting progress notes within 72 hours of service, (Policy P207.00).