Job Title: Outreach and Tracking Caseworker

Location: Woonsocket and Pawtucket, Rhode Island

Job Type: Healthcare - Social Services, Mental Health

Position Type: Full Time

Required Education: Bachelor's Degree

Required Experience: Entry Level

Description
The Tides Outreach and Tracking Caseworker is responsible for providing intensive case management services to 25 at-risk youth and their families in the context of a three-person team. Provide community/home based informal counseling, according to the individuals treatment plan. You will provide input into assessment and treatment progress to clinical social worker assigned to O/T clients.This position includes evening and weekend coverage and an ability to work collaboratively with a supervisor, team members, and collaborative partners within the Agency and the community.

Bilingual English, Spanish, Portuguese or Creole desired, but not required.

Case Management:

• Provide intensive community/school/home based supervision to assigned clients (i.e. tracking (face-to-face contacts 3x daily and on-call responsibility according to 2/3 person team schedule);
• Provide case management according to individual treatment plans to assigned clients including, but not limited to: referrals to ancillary services, participation in the development and implementation of mechanisms to address treatment barriers such as transportation and adaptive daily living skills, and participation in the development and implementation of mechanisms to facilitate client’s integration into the community;
• Provide crisis intervention services by assessing individual and/or family crisis, provide information and link short-term interventions within the available continuum of services;
• Participate in the development and evaluation (Utilization Review) reauthorization and provider meetings, of individual treatment plans;
• Maintain accurate clients files including but not limited to, appropriate releases of information, permission forms, informed consent forms, treatment plans, treatment notes, utilization review forms, and treatment and closing summaries;
• Coordinate with internal and external ancillary services to maintain open communication and a best practice continuum of care;
• Attend rundowns daily (according to schedule) and communicate appropriate information to team and supervisor;

Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Education:Must have valid Rhode Island driver's license and vehicle. Bachelor's degree required.

Benefits:Starting salaries and vacation time may be negotiable depending on experience. Benefits include travel reimbursement, medical and dental plan for individual or a family medical and dental plan, paid vacation, paid holidays and paid sick days. Other benefits are listed on our website, www.tidesfs.org.