Care Coordinator

Job Description: The Intensive Care Coordinator connects clients with appropriate care resources, collaborates with the therapeutic team to support coordinated service delivery, and promotes healthy decision-making to help clients achieve treatment goals and sustain recovery.

What you will be doing:

• Provide outpatient case management services to the seriously mentally ill population.
• Provide direct services to severely mentally ill clients to address needs which are unmet as well as information about continuum of care
• Provide follow-up progress as per need of client to treatment team members
• Evaluate client’s residential stability and assist those clients who are in need of more stable environment
• Provide Basic Living Skills training when necessary as it relates to clients immediate needs while preparing client for less intensive level of care within the community
• Assist clients with obtaining medication
• Monitor medication compliance, maintain awareness of common side effects, and ensure client is taking medication as directed on a regular basis
• Provide traditional case management services as well as collateral services such as transportation to appointments, referral agencies, etc.
• Maintain high quality client documentation and records management utilization electronic charting.
• Monitor the care and services clients receive in residential setting
• Develop and implement Individual Service Plan which consist of goals, resources, and interventions;
• Review client’s progress every three months and revise Individual Service Plan as needed
• Revise client’s goals once met, or progress as they occur
• Assist mentally ill clients through crisis situations and/or arranging for the provision of such assistance by other professional or personal caregivers
• Perform incidental care to families of the mentally ill and assist those family members in understanding the mental illness
• Other duties assigned.

This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job and is not designed to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities that are required of the employee as they may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.