Job Details
The Opportunity: Re-Entry Case Manager, Pathway Home
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $52,000/ year
What We Do || Through our powerful integrated behavioral health care model, we bring together vast resources from a diverse team of caring staff to help each client meet their personal goals. The care we provide paves the way for greater opportunity and second chances by focusing on the critical pillars towards a healthy life: behavioral health, financial stability, and safe housing.
As The Re-Entry Case Manager, you'll have a dynamic and critical role providing continuous advocacy and education around support services in the community in order to reduce recidivism, homelessness, and advocate employment. The Case Manager will seeking qualified client referrals from Essex County Sheriff's Department facilities to participate in the Pathway Home program.
Some of your critical responsibilities:
- Participate in outreach and advocacy efforts to help inmates in Essex County both at the correctional facilities and upon release in the community.
- Develop, maintain, and document a strong network of referral sources designed to generate positive outcomes for program participants. Connect with other providers, employers, and employment placement agencies, including housing providers, for referrals and linkages.
- Provide pre-screen, intake, and assessment on qualified participants, and work with community partners to attain housing, employment, treatment, and other supportive services.
- Provide day-to-day support and services for participants with a specialization in employment placement and support, homelessness prevention/rapid re-housing, and transitional supportive services.
- Assist the prospective clients in gathering the documentation necessary for enrollment.
- Conduct regular reviews referral log to determine applicant trends and percentages of applicants accepted to and attending the program.
The Case Manager role is about making a difference in the lives of the people we serve. You'll bring the following qualifications:- O ne year of experience in providing intake, outreach, or case management activities
- Bachelor's degree preferred but not required in education, psychology, rehabilitative counseling, or related human services field
- Demonstrated experience/work history working with corrections or re-entry field, mental health and/or substance abuse programs.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office as well as exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- This position will require independent travel between worksites, thus requires a valid Driver's License and insurance coverage on a personal vehicle at all times during employment.
- Must be able to satisfactorily pass ECSD background clearance process including attending the required week-long orientation through the correctional facility.
- Written and spoken fluency in Spanish strongly preferred
Since 1934, VOAMASS has provided critical services to the residents of the Commonwealth. From pioneering early residential treatment programs in the 1960's to leading today in the field of mental health programming, VOAMASS can be counted on to tackle our greatest challenges
For full-time employees, which includes the Case Manager, our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes: - Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance with 85% of medical deductible and certain co-pays paid by employer
- Multiple opportunities to use pre-tax dollars to save for expenses such as health care (flexible spending account), child care, transit, and parking
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer match
- 24/7 nurse hotline for urgent health questions
- Employee assistance program to provide help with family concerns, stress management, legal issues, and more
- Employer-paid long-term disability and life insurance
- Pet insurance
- Tuition remission programs
- Loan forgiveness (Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program)
- Generous vacation benefits, starting at three weeks and moving to four weeks after three years of employment
- 14 paid holidays, higher than industry average
- Fitness/wellness reimbursement to cover expenses such as gym membership
- Employee discount program on hundreds of items such as computers, cell phone plans and accessories, furniture, hotels, vacation home rentals, etc.
- Cash bonus, with no annual cap, for referring other qualified candidates for employment
VOAMASS is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Salary Description
52,000/year