Clinica Latina AODA Counselor/Clinical Case Manager (4120)

Job Summary:

The Bilingual Mental Health/AODA Case Manager position works within the Outpatient Services program, providing robust comprehensive care and service linkage for people with mental health and/or substance use recovery. This includes direct services with clients and their systems, creating individually tailored recovery plans, assessments, and services to fit their needs.

The Bilingual Mental Health/AODA Case Manager is responsible for providing a wide array of culturally sensitive, recovery-oriented, trauma sensitive, direct clinical services to individuals with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring challenges. The Bilingual Mental Health/AODA Case Manager will work with a team of clinicians and therapists to meet the varied needs of clients.

The Bilingual Mental Health/AODA Case Manager reports directly to the assigned supervisor with overall program supervision provided by the Director. Minimum annual service hours are 1352.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Journey Mental Health Center upholds a strong commitment to People, Opportunities, Community, and Access (POCA) that guides our daily operations. We foster a caring community for all individuals to feel a sense of belonging. We prioritize delivering services that are centered around ensuring fairness and inclusivity for all. We are dedicated to demonstrating courage and initiative within our agency and community to actively dismantle structural oppression for all affected communities.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Provision of Clinical Services (high responsibility, 90% effort)

1. Complete intake process and performs accurate assessments to initially evaluate mental health, as well as alcohol and other drug use issues in a culturally sensitive, recovery oriented, trauma sensitive manner.
2. Provides a range of clinical services in conjunction with program staff including outreach, assessment, treatment planning, referral, and case management to enhance motivation and encourage meaningful, collaborative, and strengths-based goal planning in a context that is supportive of the consumer’s culture, values, and perspectives.
3. Completes accurate clinical records including intakes, assessments, treatment plans and updates, progress notes, discharge summaries, and other information in a timely manner.
4. Maintain regular contact with consumer to a degree sufficient to support effective engagement to assist with making and evaluating progress.
5. Provide or obtain support and crisis/emergency services for consumers as appropriate.
6. Monitor the provision and quality of services provided and act as the liaison when new services/resources need to be sought or developed.
7. Other miscellaneous case management or care coordination duties as assigned by supervisor, based on clinical or programmatic needs.

Program and JMHC Participation (high responsibility, 10% effort)

1. Attends staff meetings, in-services and other program activities as requested.
2. Participates in JMHC committees, trainings and activities as directed and/or approved.