Foster Youth Case Manager

Job Purpose

The Intensive Home Service Provider (IHSP) provides an intensive form of case management that facilitates care coordination for children and youth in foster care or at risk of out-of-home placement. The IHSP provides skill building sessions directly to clients as well as parent coaching. IHSP’s facilitate Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings and support the ICC in necessary tasks related to stabilizing a client’s symptoms and improving their functioning.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Coordinate care for clients with a multidisciplinary clinical team and outside agencies including developing effective working relationships with agencies and organizations to advocate for clients.
• Work collaboratively with the Intensive Care Coordinator assigned to the case to assist in monitoring progress for effectiveness of interventions and make decisions regarding the need to adjust treatment or find additional resources and supports.
• Provide collaborative, culturally sensitive, strengths based, client centered individual/group/family rehabilitation services to youth and their families.
• Complete all documentation per Medi-Cal, Santa Clara County and AACI standards within expected deadlines.
• Schedule, facilitate and participate in Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings.
• Facilitate referral linkages to community resources and perform case management services.
• Participate in clinical supervision, consultations, trainings, and team meetings.
• Assist clients with the development of social and community support systems.
• Complete other related duties and projects as assigned.
  
  

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in social work or a related field; or equivalent education, training and experience.
• One year or more of case management and rehabilitation services experience working with parents and youth.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

• Familiarity with community and county resources for making referrals and coordinating with appropriate agencies.
• Understanding of trauma-informed care principles.
• Preferred: Knowledge of the child welfare system and juvenile probation system.
• Tarinied in mandated reporter laws in California.
• Ability to implement crisis de-escalation interventions.
• Good writing skills.
• Proficiency with basic technological tools, including laptops/computers, email, phones, and the internet.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• Ability to maintain a valid California driver license, current personal auto insurance, and an MVR sufficient to maintain insurability under agency auto liability.
• Ability to communicate well with people of diverse cultural, professional, and experiential background.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective work relationships as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  
  

Working conditions

This job requires you to be in the community, in client’s homes, and other community partner sites. Work is often conducted in an office environment. Basic safety precautions and use of protective clothing or gear is required. Driving is essential to the function of this job. The job requires travel up to 25% of the time. Occasional evening and weekend work is required.

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to regularly sit for extended periods of time and regularly operate a computer and use manual dexterity for tasks such as keyboarding. The mental demands of the job include regular comprehension, reasoning, decision making, interpreting and analyzing data, organizing, reading, writing, and resilience.

AACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.