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Adult Protective Service Case Worker

Kenneth Young Center
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  • Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
  • $45,000 - $48,000 yearly
  • Sep 06, 2024
Case Management Entry Level Nonprofit Full time
You are key to our vision: Together We Thrive. At Kenneth Young Center, our staff come together with volunteers, community partners, and the people we serve to create holistic systems of care through interwoven behavioral health programs, older adult services, and community health initiatives. Our team welcomes and celebrates unique perspectives, and represents the diversity and vitality of our local communities. This role helps realize our mission: We partner with communities to support people of all ages to navigate life's challenges through personalized prevention, intervention, treatment, and recovery. Join our team to grow in your career while building stronger, healthier communities. 

Job Scope: Adult Protective Service (APS) case workers provide a full range of investigative, care management and follow up services to alleged victims of abuse, neglect or exploitation who are over 60, or persons with disabilities between the ages of 18 and 59. APS case workers have a thorough understanding of aging and disability services and resources. Case workers participate as an integral member of a multi-disciplinary, community based social services team

Primary Responsibilities:
  • Conduct and complete APS investigations, substantiations, case work and follow-up services
  • Provide care planning and service implementation
  • Coordinate client care with internal and external service providers
  • Receive and respond to intakes, referrals and crisis situations
  • Educate clients and their families on choices/options for care, benefits and available community resources
  • Monitor care and advocate for the client to ensure needed services are provided in a timely, efficient, and effective manner.
  • Assess changes in the client’s status and implement services to address areas of need
  • Effectively use available internal and external consultation and resources including legal, behavioral health, IDOA, and Age Options as needed to provide effective care
  • Participate in program planning and evaluation as an active, cooperative member of the Older Adult Team
  • Participate in supervision as directed and in regular performance evaluations
  • Work cooperatively with other Older Adult Team and agency units/staff to maintain smooth continuity of care when cases are shared
  • Complete documentation in an accurate and timely manner to support program compliance and billing.
  • Complete and maintain IDOA’s  APS and CCC/CCP certifications, including APS Supervisor certification as directed by APS program coordinator
  • Participate as a member of APS Multidisciplinary Team
  • Participate in internal and external staff development seminars and training programs
  • Interpret and communicate, at the service delivery level, agency policies and procedures
  • Ensure client confidentiality in accordance with KYC policy and HIPPA requirements
  • Responsible for all APS billing and compliance
Education and Experience:
  • Bachelors or Masters Degree from an accredited college or university in gerontology, social work, psychology or related discipline
  • A minimum of 2 years experience providing social services to older persons and/or persons with disabilities
  • Maintain all required IDOA Certifications – including APS and CCP
Schedule
  • Exempt, Full-Time, Hourly, 37.5 hour work week
  • On Call Coverage is Required
Ken­neth Young Cen­ter offers a robust ben­e­fit pack­age that is high­ly com­pet­i­tive to the mar­ket and offers all full-time employ­ees the following: 
  • 403(b) plan with orga­ni­za­tion­al matching   
  • Medical Insurance (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illi­nois - BCBS) 
  • Den­tal (BCBS), and Vision Insur­ance (BCBS) with low employee premiums  
  • Long Term and Short Term Dis­abil­i­ty (BCBS), no cost to employee     
  • Flex­i­ble Spend­ing Account (with annu­al rollover)  
  • Basic life insur­ance (50k) paid for by the organization and option for addi­tion­al vol­un­tary cov­er­age for self, spouse, or depen­dents (BCBS)   
  • Incentive program with potential for quarterly bonuses  
  • Opportunity for annual bonus and salary increase (discretionary based on annual KYC financial audit)  
  • Eligibility to participate in the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program (PSLF)  
To fur­ther pro­mote an active and healthy work/ life bal­ance, KYC also offers a gen­er­ous amount of paid time off and staff holidays.  
  • 4 weeks of Paid Time Off (With increas­es based on seniority) 
  • 8 Paid Orga­ni­za­­­tion-Wide Hol­i­days
  • 3 Per­son­al Float­ing Hol­i­days annually
Kenneth Young Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
About Kenneth Young Center

We part­ner with com­mu­ni­ties to sup­port peo­ple of all ages to nav­i­gate life’s chal­lenges through per­son­al­ized pre­ven­tion, inter­ven­tion, treat­ment, and recovery.

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter is a 501(c)(3) not-for-prof­it fos­ter­ing health­i­er com­mu­ni­ties through: 

  • Coun­sel­ing for adults, chil­dren, families
  • Assess­ment, sta­bi­liza­tion, link­age for adults/​children in psy­chi­atric crisis
  • Treat­ment, sup­port, and recov­ery ser­vices for those with seri­ous men­tal illness
  • Ser­vice coor­di­na­tion and in-home ser­vices for old­er adults
  • Sub­stance use pre­ven­tion and recovery
  • Alco­hol, drug, and preg­nan­cy pre­ven­tion pro­grams for youth
  • LGBTQ+ Cen­ter for youth and young adults
  • Vol­un­teer opportunities

We are accred­it­ed by the Joint Com­mis­sion, a nation­al­ly respect­ed body with strin­gent stan­dards of excel­lence in healthcare.

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