Treatment Court Care Coordinator

Description

JOB SUMMARY:

Provide case management services for treatment court clients. Assure adherence to state statutes and rules, CARF standards, and federal regulations including HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2. Positively represents the organization and promotes Rimrock’s Mission to the community.

Essential Functions

• Provides care coordination to clients referred into Rimrock services. Assist clients in identifying services and make appropriate referrals and/or linkage to community resources. Maintains linkages and relationships with community resources for employment, training, education and adjunctive services.
• Works as a member of the treatment team. Attends all staffing as scheduled by the supervisor and provides input to the team on client’s progress and needs. Communicates using person-centered and recovery-oriented language.
• Maintains records including case management plans and progress notes according to Rimrock policies and CARF and state standards.
• Maintains treatment court census and ancillary referrals with reports to the Silverleaf Supervisor.
• Provides outcome surveys/evaluations to all Treatment Court clients.
• Acts as admit/discharge planner under the supervision of the Silver Leaf Supervisor
• Helps clients identify strengths and needs, supports the client in defining goals, and assists with identifying how goals can be achieved, and provides ongoing monitoring to ensure goals are attained.
• Provides therapeutic case management intervention involving teaching skills and rehabilitation as assigned.
• Assures that clients are benefitting from services being offered and not hindering progress while advocating that all federal laws and regulations are followed.
• Effectively communicate written and verbally to outside agencies, treatment team members and clients.
• Working knowledge of drug court practices and continuing education on updated materials distributed.
• Conducts Living in Balance, and other educational groups, lectures or duties as assigned.
  
  

Organizational Competencies

• Accountability – Takes ownership for resolving problems, reaching goals, and serving patients, team, and organization. Accepts responsibility for own behavior. Assures that resources are allocated in accordance with the priorities of the strategic plan. Performs self-quality monitoring in order to develop and execute plans to meet established goals.
• Time Management – Maximizes the use of time and resources and effectively prioritizes tasks. Completes paperwork, evaluations, and other required documentation accurately and timely.
• Teamwork – Works cooperatively and capably with a wide variety of people. Actively promotes teamwork and information sharing within and across departments. Works in a spirit of teamwork and trust and maintains professional boundaries in working with others.
• Flexibility – Adapts rapidly to changing work demands and priorities.
• Confidentiality – Complies with all HIPAA and 42 C.F.R. Part 2 regulations relating to privacy, security, and confidentiality. Safeguards confidential information of patients, employees, and business operations
• Safety – Knows and understands emergency procedures and completes incident reports within 24 hours of event with detailed information.
• Communication – Consistently uses positive communication skills to promote effective interpersonal relationships. Provides timely and thorough follow-up with internal and external customers. Models professionalism by addressing others with appropriate actions, appearance, and communication. Models and promotes effective written and verbal communication.
• Customer Service – Supports the organization’s customer service initiative. Strives for service excellence by seeking challenges and turning them into opportunities. Anticipates and meets needs of patients while maintaining appropriate boundaries. Displays a friendly, helpful, and approachable demeanor. Obtains feedback from patients regarding their perceptions of the service provided to them and utilizes this information to improve service delivery.
• Respect – Establishes compassionate and supportive rapport with patients. Communicates tactfully and respectfully with patients, coworkers, and others.
• Quality Improvement – Assures that information is collected, organized, reported and used to improve the quality of systems and services. Recognizes and appropriately reports to supervisor areas within scope of responsibility that fall outside the quality parameters. Serves on committees or process improvement teams to assist in improving quality/customer satisfaction, as assigned.
  
  

EDUCATION/TRAINING: Bachelor’s Degree in Human Service or Social Work field or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree is required. One year of experience working in the Mental Health or SUD field is preferred

SKILLS: Ability to plan, organize work and identify needed resources for clients and linking clients to resources, record keeping, speaking, writing, marketing and public relations skills and computer and word processing ability and counseling skills for this population.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: Work is indoors in an office environment with moderate noise. Intermittent physical effort involving lifting of up to 25 pounds, walking and stooping is required. A typical workday involves sitting, frequent use of a keyboard, reaching with hands and arms, and talking and hearing, approximately 70% of the time. Approximately 30% or less of the time is spent standing. Normal vision abilities required, including close vision and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/JOB LOCATIONS: Involves everyday risks or discomforts, requiring normal safety precautions in an office setting, patient care areas, sub-acute medical care area and personal or company patient transport vehicle. Some outdoor exposure when supervising patients outdoors and in recreation programming. Will work primarily at Silverleaf Center.

Disclaimer

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.