IDD Service Coordination​/OBI​/ECC Supervisor

Salary
: $51,904 per year.

Sign on bonus may be available.

Shift
: M-F 8am - 5pm; may require a flexible work schedule;
Assigned work hours may change as the needs of the agency and clients change

Driving required
: Y

Settings
: office, field

The IDD Service Coordination Team Leader directs and trains staff responsible for IDD Service Coordination Habilitative Coordination and Collaborative Care Case Management (CCCM) services. This position ensures objective monitoring and evaluation of service delivery and provider performance as well as compliance with regulatory guidelines for service coordination, habiltiative coordination, and CCCM services. The Team Leader also serves as the PASRR Diversion Coordinator and ECC Coordinator.

This position supervises IDD Service Coordinators.

This position works independently, under limited supervision, reporting major activities through periodic meetings.

Education Required: A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with a major in psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, rehabilitation, counseling, sociology, human growth and development, physician assistance, gerontology, special education, educational psychology, early childhood education or early childhood intervention or a bachelor's degree with at least 30 hours of coursework in the previous fields.

Experience

Required:

At least 2 years experience with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities or mental illness preferred.

• Must maintain a valid Texas Driver's license, auto liability insurance and a driving record acceptable to Permia Care's insurance requirements.
• Required to pass criminal history and background checks as well as pre-employment drug screen.

• Ensure training and provision of Service Coordination using a person centered approach focusing on the needs and desires of persons served.
• Review and supervise staff performance.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to improve Service Coordination, habilitative coordination and CCCM.
• Oversee continuation, coordination and delivery of person directed plans to ensure continued services.
• Collaborate with other LIDDAs and private providers to ensure continuity of services.
• Perform tasks of Diversion Coordinator as defined in the HHSC Performance Contract.
• Assess persons for IDD or IDD and MI in nursing facilities.
• Conduct duties for Enhanced Community Coordination as defined in the HHSC Performance Contract.
• Identify available community living options, services, and supports to assist individuals to successfully live in the community.
• Provide information and assistance to IDD Service Coordinators and other LIDDA staff who facilitate diversion for individuals at risk of admission to a nursing facility.
• Coordinate the provision of education to IDD Service Coordinators and other LIDDA staff about available community services and about strategies to avoid nursing facility placement.
• Within 45-75 days of an individual's admission to a nursing facility, review the admission to ensure community living options, services and supports that could provide an alternative to a nursing facility placement have been explored and if not, refer the individual to their IDD Service Coordinator for that purpose.
• Report to the State the number of individuals in the Target Nursing Facility population defined as a Medicaid recipient who is 21 years of age or older with IDD, admitted to nursing facilities, diverted from nursing facilities prior to admission, and residing in a nursing facility for more than 90 days, and provide information to the State about barriers experienced in moving individuals from a nursing facility to the community as directed by supervisor.
• Provide administrative and supervisory duties to ensure effective operation of IDD Service Coordination.
• Perform tasks of Outpatient Biopsychosocial Assessment Intervention as defined in the State Performance Contract.
• Meet unit performance measures or targets.
• Maintain assigned caseload.
• Coordinate appropriate…