Case Manager- Bedford Hills & Taconic

Position Title : Case Manager- Bedford Hills & Taconic

Location : NY, Bedford Hills

Shift : Days

Description :

POSITION SUMMARY : Hour Children (HC) is an organization founded to help incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children successfully rejoin the community, reunify with their families, and build healthy, independent, and secure lives. Hour Children provides compassionate and comprehensive services approaching work in an anti-discriminatory, inclusive environment committed to HC’s standards of justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Salary : $55,000 per year

This position provides case management to mothers and single women who are transitioning back into the community from incarceration. Provide comprehensive case management services as they navigate readiness for connecting with children, reentry, and identifying strengths and challenges to achieving goals. Work closely with other program staff to monitor progress, and coordinate referral support. This position will also work with external partners (such as literacy, behavioral health and housing providers) to ensure that services are coordinated.

Duties and Responsibilities :

• Working with nursery mothers for successful re-entry.
• Accomplishes clients’ care by assessing treatment needs; developing, monitoring, and evaluating treatment plans and progress; facilitating interdisciplinary approaches; and monitoring staff performance.
• Admits new clients by reviewing records and applications; conducting orientations. Works closely with counselors, housing specialist and other staff.
• Determines clients’ requirements by completing intake interviews; determining need for therapeutic medical, psycho-social, and psychiatric evaluations; reviewing therapist evaluations, treatment objectives, and plans.
• Monitors cases by verifying clients’ attendance; observing and evaluating treatments and responses; advocating for needed services and entitlements; obtaining additional resources; intervening in crises; providing personal support.
• Maintains clients’ records by reviewing case notes; logging events and progress.
• Communicates clients’ progress by participating in weekly interdisciplinary meetings and evaluations; disseminating results and obstacles to disciplinary team and family; identifying treatment influences.
• Work with counselors to carry out clients’ discharge by reviewing and amplifying discharge plans; coordinating discharge and post-discharge requirements; orienting and training family members; providing resources.
• Provide resources to clients, families and others as needed.
• Improves treatment results by studying, evaluating, and re-designing processes; implementing changes; rewriting policies and procedures.
• Prepares reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing treatment and results data and trends; compiling statistics; completing grant and subsidy applications.
• Participate in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Support the nursery program residents.
• Serve as a liaison between the mother and community organizations to meet the needs of the mother and their baby upon re-entering society.

Qualifications :

Specifications for Physical Requirements

This role requires the successful completion and approval of a background check and application, to be conducted by the Department of Corrections & Community Supervision in accordance with their protocols and procedures in addition to an Hour Children application.

EOE Statement :

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Category : Justice Initiatives

Position Requirements :

Exempt / Non-Exempt : Exempt

Req Number : JUS-25-00009

Location : III Bedford Hills Location

About the Organization :

Hour Children is a leading provider of services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women in New York State. Focused on women and their children, we support families during a mother's incarceration and help families get back on their feet upon release. We do this by providing housing, childcare, job training, and mental health services.

Compensation details : 55000-55000 Yearly Salary

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