Case Manager II-III COPSD [1249]

Job Description

Job Description

Position : Case Manager II-III COPSD [1249]

Program : Amarillo, Texas – Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders (COPSD)

Salary range :

Case Manager II : $43,305.60 Annually

Case Manager III : $46,009.60 Annually

Shift available : Full-time

At Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC), you’ll be part of a caring team dedicated to making lives better for over 10,000 individuals and families each year across the Texas Panhandle. As a non-profit, TPC provides a wide range of services from mental health and substance use support to intellectual and developmental disability care, empowering clients of all ages to achieve dignity and independence. With seven service centers located throughout the region, our staff work together with our clients to achieve our mission to create an accessible system of care that supports individual choice and truly make a difference. We invite you to join us in our vision of “Making Lives Better!”

Essential duties and responsibilities :

• Staff will maintain ethical and professional communications at all times using respectful Trauma-Informed Care language
• This position will serve on a team of providers dedicated to working with people being treated and released from a jail setting. These individuals will be diagnosed with COPSD (co-occurring psychiatric and substance use disorders). The people served in this program will have begun COPSD services while in jail as part of the SB 292 grant.
• All services will be provided using evidence-based practices that are person-centered and trauma-informed
• Provision of ongoing support and advocacy to clients navigating the criminal justice system and mental health services will be required
• Providers will coordinate release plans with the in-jail staff providing the COPSD services to promote seamless service delivery with regard to mental health and substance use treatment.
• Once the person is linked to the on-going community supports that aide their recovery they will be referred and connected to ongoing supports. Treatment efforts will concentrate on building natural supports from the least restrictive environment.
• This position will provide COPSD groups, care coordination, case management, crisis intervention, engagement and documentation practices consistent with best practices, agency standards and contract requirements.
• Participates in multidisciplinary team meetings and case staffing to develop treatment approaches that best fit the needs of the client
• This position identifies candidates at the initial county arraignments and will assist with the C.C.P. 16.22 process for early initiation of COPSD treatment and advocacy with the diversion courts
• Maintains same-day next-day documentation requirements and a 95% or higher compliance average for all individuals served
• Adheres to the TPC Business Code of Conduct and reports concern if ethical and / or business standards defined in the code are compromised

Required qualifications to be successful in the job :

Preferred qualifications to be successful in the job :

At TPC, passion and meaningful work are rewarded! We offer employees :