Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop a case management system.
- Ensure that assessment of organisation's needs is undertaken according to organisation's philosophy, strategic plans, purpose and structure.
- Consult information on a range of suitable interventions to address immediate, short and longer-term needs of the organisation's clients.
- Consult key people in the organisation to ensure issues and options for their resolution are explored thoroughly.
- Negotiate common goals, objectives and processes and establish agreement with key people in the organisation to ensure needs are addressed within statutory and organisational frameworks.
- Explore a range of options for addressing the organisation's needs and include selected options in case management processes.
- Determine processes for monitoring achievement of goals, timeframes and resources through consultation in the system planning stage.
- Define roles, responsibilities and accountabilities for clients, stakeholders, workers and service providers.
- Negotiate and get agreement on processes of appeal and the renegotiation of services and include in the system plan.
- Identify and address relevant social, family, community, cultural and ideological considerations in the case management process.
- Design and monitor implementation procedures.
- Ensure that practical strategies and resources to support key people involved in implementation are put in place.
- Define negotiable and non-negotiable aspects of the case management process, and include controls to ensure they are maintained.
- Negotiate and reach agreement on ongoing case management processes with key people in the organisation.
- Ensure contracts with external service providers accurately reflect purpose, policies, objectives, timing and resource constraints.
- Create procedures that ensure information is shared between key people in the organisation and those involved in the implementation of the processes.
- Review and measure the progress of specialist client service delivery against defined performance indicators.
- Check that procedures clearly define methods of dealing with crisis and risks.
- Ensure that the case management process is understood and agreed to by involved supervisory staff.
- Ensure procedures define resource evaluation methods for the ongoing implementation of the process.
- Complete all relevant reporting procedures according to organisational requirements.