Case Manager - ID/DD Services

Hours: Full time (37.5 hours per week), Monday through Friday, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm

Location: Multiple locations based around Lynchburg, VA 24501

Position Summary:

The Case Manager serves as a support coordinator, ensuring that services to individuals with developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities are planned, individualized, and person-centered. The Case Manager provides services that may include assistance to individuals and their family members in accessing needed services that are responsive to the individual's needs.

Required Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in an applicable human services field.
• A minimum of one year of directly related work experience providing case management services to individuals with developmental disabilities. May consider an equivalent combination of education and experience that demonstrates the required knowledge, skills and abilities.

Related Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Knowledge of: Services, systems and programs available in the community including primary health care, support services, eligibility criteria and intake processes and generic community resources and treatment programs; The nature of developmental and intellectual disabilities, serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and/or co-occurring disorders, depending on the population served, including clinical and developmental issues; Different types of assessments, including functional assessment (i.e., VIDES), and their uses in service planning; Treatment modalities and intervention techniques, such as behavior management, independent living skills training, supportive counseling, community integration, supported employment, family education, crisis intervention, discharge/transition planning, and service coordination; Types of developmental, mental health and substance use services available in the locality; The service planning process and major components of a service plan; The use of medications in the care or treatment of the population served; and all applicable federal and state laws and regulations and local ordinances.

Skills in: Identifying and documenting an individual's need for resources, services, and other supports; Using information from assessments, evaluations, observation, and interviews to develop individual service plans; Identifying services and resources within the community and established service systems to meet the individual's needs and documenting how resources, services, and natural supports such as family can be utilized to achieve an individual's personal habilitative/rehabilitative and life goals; and coordinating the provision of services by public and private providers.

Ability to: Work as team members, maintaining effective inter- and intra-agency working relationships; Work independently performing position duties under general supervision; and engage in and sustain ongoing relationships with individuals receiving services; Complete the DBHDS core competency-based curriculum within 30 days of hire; Participate in and successfully pass behavioral intervention training, which includes both verbal de-escalation skills and physical skills techniques to be utilized with consumers as needed; Drive and must possess a valid Virginia driver’s license. May be called upon to travel to any Horizon worksite; transport clients, provide services to clients at other locations. Regular attendance at training and Horizon meetings that may require travel to a variety of Horizon sites; Willing and available to work modified schedules (weekends, holidays, etc.) as required.

About Horizon:

Horizon Behavioral Health is located in the heart of Central Virginia surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Whether your passions be hiking on the vast Appalachian Trials, kayaking through the James River Blueways, or a Sunday drive along the world-famous Blue Ridge Parkway, Lynchburg VA offers small-town southern charm with an active culture of music festivals, outdoor activities, and performing arts that placed it at the top of the list by Reviews.org as the 2019 best place for millennials to move. Horizon is also the proud recipient of the 2016 Giving Back Award, Best Place to Work in 2018, Best of Lynchburg for Counseling Services for multiple consecutive years, and again most recently for 2021!

We offer a generous benefits package that includes participation in the Virginia Retirement System; life, health, dental, and vision insurance; annual leave, sick leave and holidays. Horizon participates in the NHSC, as well as PSLF educational loan forgiveness programs. If you are interested in continuing your education, working at Horizon qualifies you to receive discounts at some local universities.

To Apply – Please visit our online career center at www.HorizonBH.org

Horizon requires vaccination against COVID 19 with an FDA-approved or FDA-authorized vaccine as a condition of employment, or seek an approved exemption prior to start date. Horizon Behavioral Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).