Licensed Care Coordinator – Acute Psychiatric Services

Overview

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Job Description

The Care Coordinator is responsible for completing psychosocial assessments and participating in ongoing treatment planning for psychiatric patients of all ages including children, adolescents, and adults across the care continuum. The role includes assessment and interventions that consider the patient’s support system to address care management needs related to complex psychiatric and psychosocial problems. The Care Coordinator is a member of the multidisciplinary treatment team responsible for planning and implementing care interventions including group and individual treatment modalities.

The Care Coordinator provides emotional and practical support to patients and their support people to enhance functioning and meet individualized treatment goals. The Care Coordinator supports the care of psychiatric patients of all ages through the care continuum of psychiatric clinical programs including but not limited to psychiatric consult, psychiatric observation, and adolescent residential program.

The Care Coordinator assists patients and their support people in understanding and managing issues that may be affecting their behavioral health status, including legal, educational, financial, occupational, transportation, and insurance issues. The Care Coordinator facilitates referrals to services and programs when indicated. As part of their role, the Care Coordinator engages in ongoing efforts to learn about effective local and regional resources for psychiatric patients of all ages and builds collaborative relationships with the programs and institutions providing these services.

The Care Coordinator assists with psychoeducation on an individual level as well as through groups. The Care Coordinator attends treatment meetings and works closely with therapists, psychiatrists, and other behavioral health staff. The Care Coordinator participates in other necessary interventions to support milieu management and proactive deescalation. The Care Coordinator reports to the Assistant Director of Acute Psychiatric Services. Additional clinical and quality feedback will be provided by the Behavioral Health Nurse Director, Behavioral Health and Ohana Medical Directors, and Ohana Director of Clinical Services.

Other important dimensions of this position include commitment to continuous learning, innovation, and quality of care and outcomes measurements, professionalism, and working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team. Must have strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and curiosity as well as comfort prioritizing safety and quality of care.

• Must have experience working with psychiatric patients.
• Must have experience leading individual and group treatment modalities.
• Must have knowledge of the local and regional psychiatric services, legal resources, community services, and public insurance (Medi Cal) programs.
• Experience collaborating with community agencies to coordinate discharge planning and focus on creating continuity of care.

• Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work, Counseling, Clinical Psychology or Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy is required.

• Licensure with the California Board of Behavioral Sciences as an LCSW, LMFT, or LPCC is required.
• American Heart Association Healthcare Provider BLS certification required.
• Will complete organization approved de-escalation training.
• Will complete mandatory 5150 training by Monterey County to obtain 5150 certification.
• Live Scan fingerprint clearance required by the Department of Healthcare Services.
• Certification in an evidence-based practice is preferred (e.g., CBT, DBT, ACT, EMDR).

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Assigned
  
  Work Hours:
  
  Position Type:
  Regular
• Pay Range (based on years of applicable experience): $49.77 to $66.56
• The hours employees work determine when a shift differential is paid.
• Hourly Evening Shift Differential: $3.39
• Hourly Night Shift Differential: $5.09

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