Care Coordinator-HH536501

JOB SUMMARY

The Care Coordinator functions as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide care coordination to a caseload of severely mentally ill adults with multiple medical comorbidities and / or co-occurring substance abuse disorders and / or medically ill individuals. Advocates for and supports the client engages with community agencies / health care providers and others on his behalf to ensure access to services needed to increase wellness self-management and reduce emergency room visits and / or hospitalizations. Provides clinical support to the Team by providing consultation education information around psychosocial and / or substance abuse conditions interventions resources to maintain focus on outcomes and best practices.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS : List all essential job duties. (To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed satisfactorily with or without a reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with a disability to perform the essential duties unless this causes undue hardship to the agency.)

• Conducts initial and ongoing assessments of assigned clients to document strengths needs goals and resources.
• Participates in the development / documentation / review and update of client centered comprehensive integrated interdisciplinary care plan in consultation with other team members to ensure focus on desired outcomes.
• Maintains effective communications with clients primary care physicians substance abuse and mental healthcare providers family collateral resources and other Agency staff on behalf of clients.
• Maintains documents records statistics and other related reports in an organized timely and accurate manner as per policy and procedure.
• Coordinates care planning with other providers of services / resources to ensure goal directed collaborative care including care transitions.
• Works as part of a Care Coordination team; attends and participates in team meetings to provide input / feedback around psychosocial and medical conditions conditions / comorbidities to review client status update plans and goals review outcomes to further program goals.
• Acts as a resources / consultant to all team members on psychosocial medical and / or substance abuse issues and resources.
• Provides telephonic as well as face-to-face outreach engagement and service planning in the field.
• Acts as a linkage to community services including medical behavioral residential entitlement and any other needed services per interdisciplinary care plan.
• Monitors overall service delivery to clients to ensure coordination and continuity; advocates with service providers / resources as needed.
• Provides crisis intervention and follow-up.
• May be assigned other tasks and duties reasonably related to the job responsibilities.
• And other duties as may be assigned

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES :

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE :

1. A bachelors degree in one of the fields listed below1; or

2. A NYS teachers certificate for which a bachelors degree is required; or

3. NYS licensure and registration as a Registered Nurse and a bachelors degree; or

4. A Bachelors level education or higher in any field with five years of experience working directly with persons with behavioral health diagnoses; or

5. A Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC).

1 Qualifying education includes degrees featuring a major or concentration in social work psychology nursing rehabilitation education occupational therapy physical therapy recreation or recreation therapy counseling community mental health child and family studies sociology speech and hearing or other human services field

AND two years of experience :

1. In providing direct services to people with Serious Mental Illness developmental disabilities or substance use disorders; or

2. In linking individuals with Serious Mental Illness developmental disabilities or substance use disorders to a broad range of services essential to successful living in a community setting (e.g. medical psychiatric social educational legal housing and financial services).

A masters degree in one of the qualifying education fields may be substituted for one year of experience.

Required Experience :

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Key Skills

Senior Care,Hoyer Lift,Medical office experience,Dementia Care,Home Care,Nursing,Alzheimers Care,Administrative Experience,Meal Preparation,Medication Administration,Memory Care,Tube Feeding

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1