Competency Facilitator-Jail

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Jail-Based Competency Facilitator Do you have a passion for helping others and want a career where you can make a difference? Then join our NTBHA team. We have proved to be a strong, self-sufficient and enduring foundation within our community. We are committed to connecting and serving our clients where they live.

Position’s Role

Summary:

NTBHA is the Local Behavioral Health Authority (LBHA) contracted by Texas Human Services Commission (HHSC) to provide mental health and substance use disorder services to qualified indigent consumers in our six-county region of Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro, and Rockwall Counties.

This position’s actions and work must align with NTBHA values and goals, regulations, and policies and procedures and meet all documentation standards and regulatory requirements.

This position involves excellent organizational and clinical skills to provide jail-based assessments to individuals that have been incarcerated to ensure continuity of care. We are focused on trauma-informed, resilience-oriented care in all services provided.

Jail-Based Assessors/Care Coordinators will bridge the potential gap in services between incarceration and outpatient providers by assisting in providing care for jailed clients in the NTBHA service area. Their role is to perform complex coordination and assessment to assist in identifying strengths and needs to eliminate barriers and to connect incarcerated clients with mental health providers in an appropriate level of care once they are released.

This role begins while the individual is still incarcerated, and cooperation and coordination with outside providers and jail administrators is important.

The Jail-Based Assessor/Care Coordinator will actively participate in treatment team meetings and coordinate with jail mental health providers as well as community partners and providers to determine the best treatment options and ensure continuity of care from intake to discharge and through outpatient provider engagement. Intake coordination can include assisting in the identification of both inpatient and outpatient care of jailed clients prior to incarceration and assisting the jail mental health provider in accessing this information.

Discharge plan coordination can include referral of clients to appropriate outpatient providers and specialized teams as well as coordination with mental health courts and providing clinical and social history information to these organizations; this will also include identification of potential barriers to engagement and plans for managing these. Follow up responsibilities would include monitoring engagement of outpatient teams with individuals that have been referred to providers and released into the community.

Jail-Based Assessors/Care Coordinators will communicate consistently and effectively with other NTBHA staff regarding clients’ progress, barriers, and needs. They will be expected to work closely and collaboratively with community mental health agencies and relevant criminal justice personnel such as caseworkers, judges, defense attorneys, prosecutors, and/or forensic psychologists and psychiatrists regarding clients’ progress towards release and engagement in the community.

This position will provide additional skills training, case management, and case monitoring in conjunction with a client’s existing community agency caseworker. Targeting identified individual risk and needs relative to reducing recidivism, re-offending, hospitalization and/or homelessness will be central.

Travel is required as part of this role’s duties. Travel can vary from 20% to 100% per day. This would include all counties within NTBHA Catchment area (Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, Navarro & Rockwall Counties).This…