Coordinator - Diversion Team - 3244

Coordinator - Diversion Team

Full Time/ 40 hours

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

- Tuscaloosa, AL -

Competencies:

• 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.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

• 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, recognizing progressive movement toward independence.
• Take an active lead in the development of needed forms and policies, coordinating with other departments.
• Promote and maintain a safe, therapeutic environment for consumers.
• Provide accurate documentation of billable time and service reports in a timely manner.
• Complete monthly administrative reports as required.
• Develop and maintain MI programming as required by client treatment plans and state/federal guidelines.
• Devote 40 hours of work per week to the completion of duties outlined in the job description. More than 40 hours of work per week may be required to meet job responsibilities and deadlines.
• Work with Human Resources on all staffing and employee disciplinary issues. Monitor absenteeism incidences or performance problems and implement disciplinary actions in collaboration with HR.
• Maintain communication and awareness of current events by reading memos, e-mails, bulletin boards, intranet (Share Point / Greenshades) and communication logs and responding in a timely manner.
• Support Organizational Code of Conduct, Standards Compliance, HIPAA and Security Programs by ensuring job tasks are performed in a legal and ethical manner, assessing the work area for non-compliance and notifying the supervisor, manager, Executive Director or designee as appropriate, and maintaining training requirements and understanding that training is a required condition of employment.
• Adhere to attendance and punctuality policy by allowing adequate time to arrive, clock-in and assume responsibilities at designated time, adhering to meal and break times and making timely requests for annual leave and reporting the need for sick leave in accordance with policy.
• Comply with all standards related to safety and health by maintaining current TB Test, CPR/First Aid, CPI, and by reporting infections and on-the-job injuries in accordance with policy.
• Identify opportunities for improving the quality of services provided by the department and the organization.
• On-call duties as needed.
• Quality Assurance activities.
• All other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the Supervisor or Executive Director.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Master's degree in behavioral health (licensure preferred) or RN with 2 years experience in a Mental Health related field required. (Must be MAS certified, if RN).
• One year supervisory experience required, two years experience preferred.
• Current Alabama driver's license and good driving record as defined by Indian Rivers' policy.
• Must be able to read, write legibly, speak, and comprehend English.

Full-Time Benefits:

• Blue Cross Blue Shield Medical Insurance
• Prescription Drug Coverage
• Employees Retirement System of Alabama
• Paid Time Off
• Mileage Reimbursement
• Voluntary dental, vision, and life insurances

Working Conditions, HIPAA, and Other Guidelines:

Job Specifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform the essential functions.

HIPAA: Must be knowledgeable of and abide by HIPAA regulations regarding protected health information as defined by HIPAA and IRBH. Minimally accesses verbal, written, and /or electronic PHI, usually incidentally to an approved use and/or disclosure as pertains to consumer's financial, demographic, and/or clinical data.

Working Conditions: Works in general office environment and residential facilities; may require long hours. Must have the use of sensory skills to effectively communicate and interact with other employees and the public through the use of the telephone and personal contact. Physical capability to effectively use and operate office related equipment, such as, but not limited to, computer, copier, multi-line phone and fax. Some risk involved in the event of aggressive/out-of-control consumers. Must possess a valid Alabama driver's license.

Physical Requirements: The Physical Requirements described herein are representative of those which must be met by an employee to successfully perform the primary functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities, who are otherwise qualified, to perform essential functions.

Physical presence onsite is essential. Hearing and vision must be normal or corrected to within normal range. Able to perform the duties with or without reasonable accommodation.

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