Residential Youth Case Manager - Trauma-Informed Support

Every Child; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 43,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

Every Child in Missouri seeks a Residential Treatment Case Manager to coordinate and document case management and service planning for youth in the residential program. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, families, schools, and courts to support admission, transition, and discharge planning in a trauma-informed, youth-centered approach.

Responsibilities include coordinating assessments, service plans, and education services, maintaining confidential records, and ensuring safety.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a human-services field required.
• Experience working with children or adolescents with behavioral, emotional, trauma-related, residential-treatment, or child-welfare needs is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive, youth-centered case management and completes required training.
• Completes assigned admission activities with the youth, referral source, and family/legal guardian and obtains required consents, releases, records, and placement documentation.
• Completes assigned case-management assessments, initial service planning documentation, visitation planning, and contact privileges within required timeframes and scope.
• Coordinates and facilitates interdisciplinary treatment team meetings, micro meetings, and Service Plan Reviews; monitors implementation and progress toward individualized goals.
• Ensures meaningful youth and, when appropriate, family/legal guardian participation in service planning, reviews, permanency planning, and discharge planning.
• Maintains communication with families, legal guardians, Children’s Division, courts, schools, providers, managed-care entities, and other authorized parties.
• Initiates discharge and transition planning at admission and coordinates permanency, aftercare, community supports, and transition to the least restrictive appropriate setting.
• Represents the Agency and service team at judicial hearings, IEP meetings, psychiatric appointments, family/team meetings, and other case-related meetings as assigned.
• Develops and monitors visitation and family-contact plans consistent with the service plan, court orders, placement requirements, and safety needs.
• Coordinates educational services including school registration, records, IEP-related communication, parent/teacher conferences, and communication with school personnel.
• Identifies needs related to family connections, education, medical care, behavioral health, community supports, permanency, and transition and communicates them to the interdisciplinary team.
• Escalates clinical, psychiatric, medical, or significant safety concerns to qualified clinical, nursing, supervisory, emergency, or on-call personnel.
• Participates in critical-incident follow-up, debriefing, treatment-team review, and service-plan updates as assigned.
• Maintains complete, accurate, timely, confidential documentation in the Agency electronic health record and other required systems consistent with policy, contracts, licensing, and accreditation requirements.
• Protects youth rights, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent, and professional boundaries.
• Maintains Safe Crisis Management competency and follows crisis-prevention, de-escalation, and restrictive-intervention policies.
• Participates in supervision, case consultation, training, quality-improvement activities, record review, and corrective-action activities.
• Participates in the on-call rotation for one week at a time, rotating every 7 weeks amongst the other members of the clinical team (therapists and case managers).
• Performs other duties assigned by the supervisor consistent with the position’s qualifications and scope.

Skills

Analytical / Problem Solving

Case Coordination

Youth and Family Engagement

Interpersonal Skills

Oral and Written Communication

Teamwork

Quality Management

Cultural Responsiveness

Ethics and Confidentiality

Planning / Organizing

Professionalism

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling, Human Services, Family Studies, Sociology, or a closely related human-services field

Job description

Every Child in Missouri seeks a Residential Treatment Case Manager to coordinate and document case management and service planning for youth in the residential program. You will collaborate with interdisciplinary teams, families, schools, and courts to support admission, transition, and discharge planning in a trauma-informed, youth-centered approach.

Responsibilities include coordinating assessments, service plans, and education services, maintaining confidential records, and ensuring safety.