Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY
Responsible for assessing appropriate levels of care based upon comprehensive criteria and identification of appropriate services both within HRDI and externally.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
- Must be available, a rotation determines, on 24 hour basis, to intervene to crisis needs.
- Works closely with State Mental Health Facility to plan for services needed or high rates users referred because they a re to be discharged from inpatient care.
- Works closely with community support treatment team triage.
- Maintains professional working relationship with all referral agencies.
- Develop plans to refer, link, and place individual with community based treatment and other needed resources.
- Assists individuals by referring/linking, placing them with recreation, transportation, financial and medical entitlement, vocational rehabilitation services, as appropriate as needed.
- Coordinates inter and intra-agency services.
- Conduct outreach and case findings.
- Determine eligibility and conduct comprehensive assessment of service needs.
- Develop the comprehensive master Individual Treatment appropriate housing facilities, with the input of the client and/or family unit.
- Review Individual Treatment Plan of clients regularly to assess effectiveness and need for specific plan elements, again with input of the client customer and/or family.
- Monitor and evaluate all services provided to individual clients.
- Responsible for locating appropriate housing facilities as needed.
- Provide supportive counseling to individual client and/or family as needed.
- Provide problem solving assistant to client and/or family as needed
- Provide public education on services available le and needs of the mentally ill as opportunities arise and/or as assigned by the Vice President.
- Participates in staff meetings scheduled by the supervisor.
- Document all services provided in progress notes and must perform DIS billings of service on timely basis.
- Maintains appropriate credentials and pursues internal and/or external training and development opportunities.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in related human services/social services field
- Valid Driver’s License and vehicle required to travel
- Two-three years experience in mental health setting preferred
- Knowledge of utilizing DMS IV and ASAM criteria for purposes of assessing clinical diagnoses and
- appropriate client placement
- Knowledge of medical needs and available resources to the psychiatrically disabled persons.
- Knowledge of appropriate record keeping procedures
- Sensitivity to multi-cultural differences
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure continuous improvement in all service
- areas.
- relate well to people of all socioeconomic groups
- Knowledge of computers and applicable software
- Excellent Writing Skills
- Knowledge of languages other than English helpful, particularly Spanish
WORKING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL EFFORT:
- Work is normally performed in a typical interior/office work environment.
- Moderate physical activity. May require physical effort including lifting up to 10-25 pounds and some extended periods of standing or walking.
- No or very limited exposure to physical risk.
- Ability to lift 15 - 25 lbs.
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