Caseworker, Healthcare

Job Details

Job Location:

Bell Co Diversion Center
- Belton, TX 76513

Position Type:
Full Time

Education Level: 4 Year Degree

Travel Percentage:
Daily

Job Shift: Day

Minimum Starting Hourly Rate: $23.30/hr

Maximum Starting Hourly Rate
- Dependent on Qualifications

• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Generous Paid Time Off - 9.23 hrs per pay period
• 10 Observed Company Paid Holidays
• 8 Hours Annual Volunteer Time Off
• Retirement Plan w/ 6% Employer Contribution
• Employee Assistance Program

Due to the nature of Mobile Crisis Outreach Team (MCOT) services, employees must be able to work a flexible schedule to meet operational and client care needs. Work schedules may change with little or no advance notice and may require employees to provide coverage outside of their regularly assigned shift, including on-call responsibilities. Employees may be required to work days, evenings, nights, weekends, holidays, and additional shifts as needed to ensure continuous crisis response services.

Performs highly complex clinical case work. Work involves clinical screenings, assessments, and determinations for hospitalization and/or ongoing service eligibility based on consumer needs both in-office and within the community. Coordinates, links, and authorizes appropriate services and monitors consumer progress with meeting stabilization goals. Works under limited supervisor with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgment. This position provides a majority of services in the community, such as homes, jail settings, shelters, hospitals, and other environments in which the client lives and thrives.

Due to this, this position is required to travel frequently within the service area and may interact frequently with clients, families, law enforcement/justice system officials, hospital staff, and other community stakeholders involved in the recovery of the individual they are serving.

• MCOT staff will, using best clinical practices and benchmark standards, complete a crisis assessment on any individual who presents in crisis at Central Counties Services’ clinic locations.
• When assigned the primary on-call status, MCOT staff will respond to calls dispatched through Avail Solutions crisis hotline to complete a face-to-face crisis assessment within the designated time frames outlined in CCS MCOT policies and procedures (which are established based on TAC code.)
• MCOT staff will provide follow-up sessions on all crisis encounters. MCOT staff will provide 24 or 48-hour follow-up face-to face sessions depending on status of client.
• When assigned to iPad coverage, MCOT staff will promptly respond to calls to complete virtual assessments or in person, if requested.
• Make appropriate determination for client placement depending on level of current risk based on information gathered from crisis assessment and Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale. If client is determined to meet criteria for an outpatient level of care, then a safety plan will be created or reviewed on-site with the client. Documentation in the EHR that a safety plan was completed is required.
  
  A copy of the safety plan is to be provided to the client.
• Provide State Mental Health Facility (SMHF) or private hospital discharge follow up within seven days, and assist individuals with transition to services.
• Identifies problem areas, service gaps, and areas that are barriers to services for clients as needed and/or requested by assessing individuals’ current and ongoing needs with regards to support systems and available community resources, schools, and facilities, etc., as needed and requested by the individual.
• Actively participates as a member of the MCOT Team through process improvements and…