Care Coordinator

Location Pierce City, MODepartmentA-CPRJob Type Full-Time Compensation $19 - $25.50 per hour (USD)
Care coordinators (ie case managers) work with clients out in their homes and/or community, working on several different things, in various settings. We have both child/youth and adult care coordinator positions.

Care coordinators duties include, but are not limited to, teaching, modeling, and skill building, obtaining resources, assisting clients to appointments, responding to crises, and collaborating with other agencies. As a result, every day is something new. Due to the travel, this position includes a company car. The position is full time, but hours can be somewhat flexible. Great benefits including health, vision, dental, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, and retirement.

Duties and responsibilities

Provide holistic, person-centered care with emphasis on personal strengths, skill acquisition, and harm reduction, while using stage-wise and motivational approaches that promote active participation by the individual in decision making and self-advocacy in all aspects of services and recovery/resiliency.

Use interventions, based on individual strengths and needs, to develop interpersonal/social, family, community, and independent living functional skills including adaption to home, school, family and work environments when the natural acquisition of those skills is negatively impacted by the individual’s mental illness and/or substance use disorder.

Facilitate and support recovery/resiliency through activities including: defining recovery/resiliency concepts in order to develop and attain recovery/resiliency goals; identifying needs, strengths, skills, resources and supports and teaching how to use them; and identifying barriers to recovery/resiliency and finding ways to overcome them.

Provide services that result in positive outcomes including but not limited to the following areas: employment/education, housing, social connectedness, abstinence /harm reductions, decreased criminality/legal involvement, family involvement, decreased psychiatric hospitalizations, and improved physical health.

Work collaboratively with the individual on treatment goals and services including the use of collaborative documentation as a tool to ensure that individuals are active in their treatment.

Provide information and education in order to learn about and manage mental illness/serious emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorders including symptoms, triggers, cravings and use of medications.

Reinforce the importance of taking medications as prescribed and assist the individual to make medication concerns regarding side effects or lack of efficacy known to prescriber.

Build skills for effective illness self-management including psychoeducation, behavioral tailoring for medication adherence, wellness/recovery planning, coping skills training and social skills  conjunction with the individual, family, significant others and referral sources, identifying risk factors related to relapse in mental illness and/or substance use disorders and develop a plan with strategies to support recovery and prevent relapse.

Make efforts to ensure that individuals gain and maintain access to necessary rehabilitative services, general entitlement benefits, employment, housing, schools, legal services, wellness or other services by actively assisting individuals to apply and follow up on applications, and to gain skills in independently accessing needed services.

Ensure communication and coordination with and between other interested parties such as service providers, medical professionals, referral sources, employers, schools, child welfare, courts, probation/parole, landlords, and natural supports.

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