**Job Description:** The Social Work Care Manager works collaboratively with physicians and other members of the health care team to improve the health of patients with chronic conditions or complex needs. The position educates patients and caregivers to help them manage their health care needs. The incumbent facilitates communication, coordinates services, addresses barriers, and promotes optimal allocation of resources while balancing clinical quality and cost management. **As a Care Manager in Behavioral Health, you need to know how to:** + Coordinate the care and services for patients identified as needing assistance or meeting Care Management criteria. + Collect in-depth information about a patients condition, situation and functioning to identify individual needs in order to develop a plan to meet those needs. + May perform psychosocial needs assessments. + Work with patient and family/caregivers to determine specific goals and actions based on assessment. + Coordinate discharge planning. + Execute specific interventions to meet established goals. + Organize, integrate and coordinate the necessary resources to accomplish the goals and plan + Assess the patients prior level of functioning, access to and/or use of community resources and available support systems. + Assist the care team in developing a plan of care which includes, but is not limited to: assuring appropriateness of services and care setting, assuring individualized support and education, determining the need for continued services, planning for discharge, and identifying and connecting patients/families with available community resources if needed. + Collaborate with Physicians and other members of the health care team on the patients behalf + Identify appropriate admission and continued stay issues. + Enhance the quality of patient care through effective and efficient use of resources. + Help to identify strategies for reducing length of stay and appropriate utilization of services. + Utilize criteria including clinical pathway data and implement strategies to resolve controllable variances + Attend, facilitate and participate in rounds and case conferences. Advocate for patient rights. + Monitor efficiency and availability of services and evaluate outcomes through variance tracking, data collection + Identify needs, facilitate, or provide education to physicians and ancillary departments/nursing units regarding case management, discharge planning process, and roles. + Participate in multidisciplinary groups and development of guidelines + Conduct comprehensive behavioral health assessments for patients on mental health holds in the ED and on the medical floors when ordered by a physician. Facilitate inpatient psychiatric transfers for these behavioral health patients as indicated. + Facilitate and participate in family and interdisciplinary meetings regarding patients as needed. + Provide clinical and crisis intervention to patients and families. + Provide patient and family education and community education, including advanced directives, domestic violence, child and elder abuse + Provide individual counseling and/or group counseling to patient and family as appropriate. + Assist other case managers with family and interdisciplinary meetings regarding patients as needed + Create and complete direct clinical interventions, resource referrals, discharge planning and consultation to multidisciplinary team members + Participate in multidisciplinary care planning meetings. + Communicate and collaborate with medical, interdisciplinary team staff, patient, family, insurance companies, and social agencies to provide quality discharge plan to appropriate, safe, level of care. + Promote patient/family participation in decision-making and care planning + Provide community resources for psychosocial, financial, and educational needs of patient and family. + Collaborate with agencies. Participate in community activities, community-wide in-services and training to promote psycho-social health. **Minimum Qualifications** + Masters Degree in Social Work from an accredited program + Successful completion of LCSW exam and current clinical supervision + Current LCSW license or the ability to obtain within three (3) years of hire + Minimum of two (2) years of clinical experience **Preferred** + At least two (2) years of case management experience in an acute care setting **Physical Requirements:** Interact with others by effectively communicating, both orally and in writing.- and -Operate computers and other office equipment requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.- and -See and read computer monitors and documents.- and -Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.- and -May require lifting and transporting objects and office supplies, bending, kneeling and reaching. **Location:** West Pines **Work City:** Wheat Ridge **Work State:** Colorado **Scheduled Weekly Hours:** 0 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $30.94 - $47.77 We care about your well-being – mind, body, and spirit – which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Learn more about our comprehensive benefits packages for our Idaho, Nevada, and Utah based caregivers (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/employee-benefits/) , and for our Colorado, Montana, and Kansas based caregivers (http://www.sclhealthbenefits.org) ; and our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (https://intermountainhealthcare.org/careers/working-for-intermountain/diversity/) . Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. All positions subject to close without notice.