Job Description
Project Renewal is a leading non-profit organization with the mission of building supportive communities where people achieve dignity and independence, renewing their lives with health, homes, and jobs. Our comprehensive and integrated 24/7 programs are designed to offer the holistic care our clients need. With a staff of 950+ and an annual budget of $140 million, Project Renewal is one of the larger social service nonprofits in New York City.
Title: Case Manager
Program: Geffner House
Salary Range: $42,000 - $48,000
Program Description:
Geffner House is a 307-unit supportive Single Room Occupancy (SRO) building that provides permanent housing for low-income men and women, including people with serious and persistent mental illness; individuals who are recovering from drug or alcohol addiction; and people who are living with HIV/AIDS. Tenants are offered a comprehensive array of clinical services and occupational therapy services.
Overall Responsibilities:
Under the direction of the senior clinical staff, the Case Manager is responsible for providing assessments, counseling, and referral services to the tenants living in the building who are people with persistent mental illnesses, individuals who are recovering from drug/alcohol addiction and those living with either HIV or AIDS and performs related work. Work with property management to maintain clients’ housing.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The essential duties of the Case Manager include but are not limited to the following activities:
• Provides intake, psychosocial and substance abuse assessments to tenants and develops an appropriate treatment plan for each tenant in the assigned caseload.
• Makes home visits, coordinates medical, psychiatric and substance abuse services.
• Monitors medication compliance as necessary.
• Maintains up to date written information or case notes on contacts with the tenants and any other required information and enters all contacts and interventions into the FOOTHOLD/AWARDS system.
• Conducts individual and group supportive counseling sessions.
• Organizes and educates tenants through groups and other activities presenting issues of interest to the tenants such as money management, employment opportunities etc.
• Links tenants to community services.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisory staff.
Qualifications:
• 1-2 years of experience working with homeless mentally ill adults or other special needs population preferred
• Excellent oral, writing and listening skills
• Proficiency in computer required.
• Bilingual or multilingual a plus
Project Renewal is an equal opportunity employer. Its long-standing policy has been to embrace the equality of opportunity for all employees and applicants without regard to actual or perceived race, color, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, religion or creed, gender (see separately issued Gender Discrimination policy for more detail), physical or mental disability, age (18 and over), military status, arrest record, marital status, domestic partnership status, genetic information or predisposing genetic characteristic, sexual orientation, status as a victim or witness of domestic violence, sex offenses or stalking, unemployment status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state and local laws.
