About the Role
The Case Manager will complete enrollment steps, assessments, and service planning for young people aged 18-24 in our Youth Employment programs, providing credential training in the health care sector. This role involves weekly counseling, case management, data entry, and supporting program activities like outreach and workshops.
Responsibilities
- Assess each applicant for program fit and match with contractual enrollment criteria.
- Complete a thorough assessment and design a corresponding service plan in collaboration with each qualifying applicant.
- Complete necessary enrollment paperwork.
- Meet with program participants regularly to discuss barriers to program persistence and persistence in a post-exit outcome.
- Make referrals to other service providers as necessary and ensure participants follow through with all referrals.
- Offer crisis counseling and group work when appropriate.
- Assure quality, timely data entry into any funder-mandated databases and the agency’s Salesforce instance.
- Complete exit steps at the end of each cohort and assist with the placement into positive outcomes for all youth.
- Support a culture of professionalism designed to teach and cultivate real-world working experience for the youth and young adults served.
- Assist in identifying and developing services and programs not currently being offered.
- Collaborate with balance of program team to fulfill all program functions and services that may need additional support.
- Provide leadership to agency’s Case Management Team.
- Perform all other duties assigned by supervisor.
Requirements
- Experience working directly with people from diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- A passionate commitment to OBT’s mission and vision.
- A track record in providing comprehensive case management services to young adults and adults.
- Familiarity with the public and nonprofit social service systems and entities that target this population.
- Demonstrated experience developing programmatic systems to enhance program outcomes.
- The ability to establish strong working relationships with team members, colleagues, participants, and external stakeholders.
- The ability to consistently develop and refine the program model and processes to create successful outcomes for participants and staff.
- Experience working on multiple projects and balancing competing priorities.
- Strong skill set in data management and data tracking; demonstrated experience managing data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Skills
- Case management
- Data management
- Data tracking
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Data reporting
- Crisis counseling
- Group work
- Outreach
- Recruitment
- Workshop facilitation
- Collaboration
- Leadership
Experience Level
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in a social worker or comparable role with an adolescent or young adult population.
Education Level
- BA required
- Master’s degree in social work or related degree preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $60-65,000
