Job Information
Pawnee Mental Health Services Assisted Outpatient Treatment Case Manager in Manhattan, Kansas
This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12993562
Who We Are
Pawnee Mental Health Services is a private, not-for-profit community mental health center dedicated to providing comprehensive mental health services to strengthen the wellness of our communities. Operating over 10 counties in North-Central Kansas, we provide a full range of psychotherapy, crisis, medication management, and substance abuse recovery services to over 7000 adults, adolescents, and children every year. Pawnee is the only provider in our service area who welcomes anyone in need of mental health services, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year regardless of their insurance, status as a client, or ability to pay. We also believe that all staff have an important role to play in maintaining the wellness of our communities and we are looking for bright, talented people to fill those roles!
If that\'s a mission that excites you, read on!
The Role You Play
As an AOT (Assisted Outpatient Treatment) Case Manager at Pawnee you will be directly assisting clients as they move through the phases and levels of an AOT program. You will be responsible for educating your caseload of clients and their families about the symptoms of a mental health diagnosis, as well as medication information and access to community resources. This will all be done while understanding and engaging with the clients personal history and needs/wants regarding their own treatment.
- The Day-to-Day
- Create a treatment plan specific to each client, engaging directly with them in a purposeful, supportive, and helpful way while promoting their own agency and choices
- Provide ongoing strengths assessments, activities, and goal
development/treatment planning services
- These will include active participation of the client and any other they wish to include such as extended family members
- Assist the client with symptom management in everyday situations, for example at the work site or related to academic progress
- Provide crisis management, or coordination of emergency services during a mental health crisis situation
- Other Duties as Assigned
- Provide resources and education to families about mental illness
- Transport clients based upon service needs
- Assist adult consumers with maintaining the benefits they need to successfully continue the rehabilitation process