The Youth Case Manager position involves providing case management and social services to youth clients. Key responsibilities include conducting client assessments, developing service plans with goals, ensuring clients receive appropriate training/education, maintaining accurate files, and helping clients find employment. Qualifications include a degree preferred but relevant experience may substitute, strong communication and organization skills, and the ability to perform basic math. The position requires occasional lifting, and driving to transport clients may be involved.
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The Youth Case Manager position involves providing case management and social services to youth clients. Key responsibilities include conducting client assessments, developing service plans with goals, ensuring clients receive appropriate training/education, maintaining accurate files, and helping clients find employment. Qualifications include a degree preferred but relevant experience may substitute, strong communication and organization skills, and the ability to perform basic math. The position requires occasional lifting, and driving to transport clients may be involved.
The Youth Case Manager position involves providing case management and social services to youth clients. Key responsibilities include conducting client assessments, developing service plans with goals, ensuring clients receive appropriate training/education, maintaining accurate files, and helping clients find employment. Qualifications include a degree preferred but relevant experience may substitute, strong communication and organization skills, and the ability to perform basic math. The position requires occasional lifting, and driving to transport clients may be involved.
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The Youth Case Manager position involves providing case management and social services to youth clients. Key responsibilities include conducting client assessments, developing service plans with goals, ensuring clients receive appropriate training/education, maintaining accurate files, and helping clients find employment. Qualifications include a degree preferred but relevant experience may substitute, strong communication and organization skills, and the ability to perform basic math. The position requires occasional lifting, and driving to transport clients may be involved.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Department: Family Education
Job Title: Youth Case Manager
Program: Youth Ready Chicago Development Centers
Reports to: Youth Coordinator/Program Manager
Essential duties and responsibilities: Determine eligibility and maintain client files
• To provide services to all interested Youth
• To provide individualized case management • To provide an extensive assessment of each client • To develop with the client a service strategy which includes goals of the client • To ensure that each client obtains the training and education appropriate for success • To maintain accurate client files and records according to program guidelines • To ensure that each client moves into unsubsidized employment • To complete follow-up reports • Submit all necessary forms, bills, invoices, and other paperwork • To perform other duties as assigned • Able to perform Home visits
Qualifications:
• Experience, Competencies, and Education
1. College degree preferred but a combination of work experience and education may be considered a substitute for educational preference. 2. Good written and verbal communication skills 3. Strong organizational and time management skills
• Language Skills Ability to read, analyze and interpret most complex documents relating to federal regulations under DFSS guidelines. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquires or complaints.
• Mathematical Skills Ability to perform basic mathematical equations • Reasoning ability Ability to apply principles of logical thinking of a wide range of practical problems. Ability to deal with a variety of abstract or concrete variables
Accountabilities and Measures
• Accomplishment of assigned tasks • Ability to maintain all client records and other documentation pertinent to the position in a timely and accurate manner • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with disabled and disadvantaged individuals, staff, employers, agency representatives, families, and other service providers. • Ability to work independently, be flexible and dependable, and demonstrate initiative and creativity. • Ability to perceive and evaluate progress and problems areas for the program and assigned personnel using problem solving skills and available resources. • Ability to develop goals, objectives, policies and procedures that support the program, participants and community employers. • Ability to develop outcome measures for the program and ability to track/compile data, assuring that program goals and outcomes are attained for the program and program participants.
Americans with Disabilities Specifications
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. The employee may be required to drive and transport clients.
