Skills Coach​/Technician - Case Manager

The Skills Technician aids and supports parents who are unable to appropriately fulfill parenting and homemaking functions. The Technician assists families through advocating, teaching, demonstrating, monitoring, and/or role modeling new, appropriate skills towards self-sufficiency. This role may be responsible for transporting patients for appointments. Additionally, this role may also provide case management and skill building services to the assigned caseload. These services may be provided at a Bowen Health location, in the community, and in patients’ homes.

A caseload may consist of child/adolescent or adult population depending on the location and the need.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Below are the primary duties and essential functions of an employee in this position. While not all tasks may be performed by every employee in this role, all employees are expected to perform related tasks as needed. These essential functions must be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

• Review and updatepatientintake information (demographics) for accuracy.
• Coordinate homemaker services with Case Manager as determined by care coordination plan.
• Instruct patients in appropriate homemaker services including cleanliness of home, personal hygiene, budgeting and other activities of daily living.
• Advocate, teach,demonstrate, monitor, and model appropriate housekeeping
• Advise families in private homes indealing with problems such as cleanliness, and household utilities.
• Participates in evaluating the needs of individuals served and confers with Case Manager to plan for continuing additional
• Transport patients to and from appointments in surrounding counties while abiding by speed limits and road signs.
• Perform simple vehicle maintenance, such as fueling gastank, cleaning exterior & interior, taking vehicle for oil changes.
• Ensure patients follow bus procedures when traveling with them on a bus including being safely seated and using seat belts.
• Build natural support systems and promote greater patient independence
• Assist patients to learn and develop new skills to improve functioning and independence
• Ensure patients are linked with other healthcare providers needed
• Ensure patients are addressing the goals that are important to them and/or their referral source
• Participate in medical appointments with the organization’s medical staff
• Ensure patients are making progress and are discharged at an appropriate amount of time
• Transport patients as needed and appropriate to their care
• Complete all clinical documentation accurately, using exact startand stop times, and submitting timely.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements:

• Occupational Exposure Risk Classification:
  The normal work routine involves minimal exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues.
• The normal work routine has aminimalergonomic risk for repetitive motion impairment.
• The position may require a minimal amount of physical exertion (bending, lifting, twisting) in the work area.

Required Qualifications:

• Education:
  
  Associate degree orsixty (60) undergraduate credit hours, orHigh School Diploma or GED accepted with a minimum offour (4) years of prior experience.
• Experience:
  
  Prefer two (2) years in a mental health setting.
• Certificate or Professional License:
• CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention) - Certification must be obtained after hire and prior to providing direct patient care. This certification must be maintained and kept current through employment.
• BLS (Basic Life Support) and First Aid - Certification must be obtained after hire and prior to providing direct patient care. This certification must be maintained and kept current through employment.
• Valid driver’s license and active auto insurance coverage.
• Satisfactory results from criminal and driving record…