What is Case Management?
The case management role includes:
- Providing an individual, client-centred assessment
- Identifying aims and goals to meet the client's needs
- Being an advocate and providing support for the injured person and their family
- Working as a facilitator and innovator to access appropriate resources to meet the client's needs
- Liaising with appropriate agencies to secure and justify funding to meet the client's needs
- Implementing and co-ordinating community rehabilitation programmes
- Implementing and co-ordinating programmes to promote return to work / occupational balance
- Liasing with relevant people to ensure educational requirements and aspirations are met
- Setting up and monitoring care regimes
- Recruiting, training and supervising support workers
- Monitoring the long-term needs of the client
- Ensuring accommodation meets client's needs