CME- Care Coordinator IC

Overview

Location: Savannah, Georgia

Wage: Up to

Department: IC3

Position Type: full-time

Announcement Begin Date:

Pay Grade: 11

Location Name: Vary/ Region 5

DBHDD

Position Title:

IC3 Care Coordinator

Position Number: Work Unit: IC3 (Impact)

Immediate Supervisor's

Title:

IC3 Wraparound Supervisor

List positions supervised through immediate contact:
None

• Knowledge of agency policies and procedures.
• Ability to coordinate and organize delivery services.
• Ability to monitor youth's progress toward meeting established goals.
• Knowledge of youth's treatment goals.
• Ability to interview youths and/or families using established techniques.
• Ability to develop youth profile.
• Knowledge of agency confidentiality policies and state/federal confidentiality laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of available community resources and ability to make appropriate referrals.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention.
• Ability to develop client service plans to habilitate and rehabilitate clients and assist in attaining social, educational, and vocational goals.
• Ability to contact health care professionals to obtain additional background information.
• Ability to develop, implement, and facilitate workshops.
• Knowledge of target population and training needs assessment.
• Knowledge of agency specific software and available databases.
• Ability to prepare reports and case history records.
• Knowledge of eligibility requirements and information needed to complete applications.
• Knowledge of what qualifies as an emergency situation.
• Entry qualifications include a high school diploma or GED and two years' experience in a social services related position OR a Bachelor's degree in a social services related field OR one year at the lower level or position equivalent.
• (Physical) No lifting of more than 20 pounds.

• Equipment that requires safe and effective use: N/A
• Bloodborne pathogen exposure category information as applicable to the role.
• Mandatory training categories:
  Direct Care is required.

The Albany Area Community Service Board goal is to continually improve the delivery of service by improvement of youth outcomes and satisfaction. All employees have a role in performance improvement and are expected to interact collaboratively with co-workers and other contacts to provide consistent, high-quality, youth-focused services.

Intensive Customized Care Coordination (IC3) is a provider-based High Fidelity Wraparound intervention comprised of a team selected by the family/caregiver in which the family and team identify the goals and the appropriate strategies to reach the goals identified by the family. High fidelity wraparound (HFW) is an ecologically based process building on the collective actions of a team to mobilize resources and talents from a variety of sources to support families in their communities.

In the wraparound process, a team of people are brought together around all the components of a family's life incorporating their history, culture, relationships, and other relevant information to address their challenges and formulate possible solutions.

The care coordinator provides a broad range of case management services to patients/clients/youths and their families. Conducts patient/client/youth intakes, participates in treatment team planning, and performs crisis intervention. Assists in dealing with personal and social problems. May provide behavioral and emotional support to youths and families and/or serve as a liaison for social services. May perform case management duties. Assists individuals in identifying and gaining access to required services and supports, as well as medical, social, educational, development and other services and supports.

Encourages the use of community resources through referral to appropriate traditional and non-traditional providers, paid, unpaid and natural supports. Coordinates a set of interrelated activities for identifying, planning, budgeting, documenting, coordinating, securing, and reviewing the delivery and outcome of appropriate services for individuals through a wraparound approach. Care Coordinators will deliver services and work in…