Coordinator - Diversion Team

Full Time/ 40 hours

Monday
- Thursday: 7:30am - 5:30pm;
Friday 8:00am-12:00pm

- Tuscaloosa, AL -

• Proven ability to work as a team with physicians to coordinate care, asking pertinent questions that are required to manage psychiatric and medical care. Ability to coordinate a program that emphasizes both aspects as equally important in the recovery of the consumer.
• Proven ability to work with other healthcare or community agencies to coordinate all aspects of the consumer's continuum of care, focusing on medical as well as psychiatric needs.
• Proven ability to educate staff and consumers about medications and medical conditions that often present themselves in intensive psychiatric settings.
• Proven ability to assess consumers and distinguish whether presenting symptoms are psychiatric or possibly a psychiatric presentation of medical concerns that require intervention.
• In-depth knowledge of medications: medical – purpose for usage, administration details, possible complications, side effects, interactions; psychotropic – purpose for usage, administration details, possible complications, side effects, interactions.
• In-depth knowledge of physiological responses to medical and psychiatric illnesses and their treatment.
• Proven superior psychotherapeutic skills.
• Excellent ability to work with other program coordinators in a cooperative, supportive manner.
• Must possess effective understanding of training techniques used with the SMI population.
• Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be able to organize and prioritize a variety of tasks.
• Must possess excellent ability to comprehend and maintain program standards.
• Must be able to effectively manage, organize and schedule staff to ensure a successful program and services.
• Must be knowledgeable of cultural diversity.
• Ability to develop and implement a comprehensive treatment plan and ensure implementation.
• Must possess excellent supervisory experience.

• Monitor documentation for the Clinical Program, to ensure that admission assessments, treatment plans/reviews, progress notes, discharge summaries, nursing assessments, and medication administration are completed appropriately.
• Ensure accurate and up-to-date files on all consumers and completion of documentation in a timely manner.
• Supervise staff as they identify medical concerns and develop nursing and therapeutic plans to treat and monitor.
• Provide collaboration and consultation to community agencies as needed.
• Develop a program to provide for the implementation of well coordinated follow-up plans on consumers discharged from the program.
• Complete time sheets.
• Conduct staff meetings twice per month.
• Assume lead role in screening consumers coming into the program.
• Assume lead role in coordinating client care and referring clients to other levels of care within or outside the agency.
• Conduct intake assessments as needed.
• Participate in staffing, modeling for the staff effective ways to manage care problems, coordinating team participation to effectively address concerns.
• Ensure that operation and management of the programs flow smoothly and effectively.
• Ensure all assigned duties are implemented according to IRBHand DMH policies and procedures.
• Ensure all state and Medicaid standards for the program are maintained.
• Ensure all safety, fire prevention, and health measures are followed.
• Coordinate the transportation of community clients to/from the Clinical Program.
• Provide supervision of program staff.
• Supervise the nursing staff as they coordinate securing and administering consumers' medications.
• Schedule staff to ensure adequate coverage of client needs.
• Work with other coordinators to maintain movement through the program,…