What are the responsibilities and job description for the Healthcare Specialist position at Addiction Recovery Care?
Are you looking for the best place to work? Join Addiction Recovery Care, LLC (ARC) which was selected as one of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, based on surveys of our employees!
Are you passionate about serving in an environment of shared purpose and shared goals while driving the ARC mission and values to excellence for our clients, patients and team members? ARC has been leading the way and has become one of the fastest growing healthcare systems in Kentucky (and beyond!) in addiction treatment, mental health services and improving lives by creating opportunities for people to discover hope and live their God-given destiny!
ARC is ready to offer you “The B.E.S.T. of ARC” (Balance, Energy, Safety, Training) on day 1 when you enter through our doors. ARC is a thriving, dynamic, and fast-paced healthcare system environment where compassion, accountability, respect for the dignity of life, entrepreneurship, and stewardship are key elements of every thing we do!
We are hiring a Healthcare Specialist for our growing team! The Healthcare Specialist will primarily be responsible for client care, transport, client activities, working with medical personnel and client orientation with admissions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take vitals on clients daily
- Maintain confidentiality and comply with company, state, federal and HIPPA rules and regulations
- Charting for insurance purposes
- Supervise residents for extended time periods
- Monitor resident's activities, groups, chore lists, weekly phone calls, etc.
- Maintain a safe environment
- Maintain a positive, professional attitude toward residents, staff, and volunteers
- Handle crisis situations in a calm supportive manner
- Transport clients to various appointments
- Complete drug screening
- Acts as a liaison to all areas of persons served/client care; medical staff, admission staff, nursing staff and clinical staff.
- Directly assists and supports medical, admission, nursing and clinical staff ensuring a seamless transition for persons served/clients to and from detox.
- Work with the Nurse Practitioner to ensure the health and safety of the residents.
- Administering Medication to clients as directed
- Performs follow-ups to persons served/client referral sources as directed by the supervisor.
- Demonstrates punctuality, organization, and proficiency in all areas of scheduling, filing, meetings, presentation and persons served/client relations.
- Orientate the persons served/client on admission.
- Ensures persons served/client confidentiality in compliance with 42CFR, Part 2.
The above is intended to be a general outline of job duties and not a complete list.
Key Experience and Education Needed:
- High school graduate or GED
- Valid driver's license
Other Qualifications to be Considered:
- Availability to work some evening, overnight, and/or weekend shifts
- Good communication skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and stay on schedule
- Ability to enforce program requirements
- Ability to complete and submit reports
- Knowledge of addictions and mental health complications.
- Knowledge of the 12-Step Recovery Program.
- Knowledge and competency in problem-solving, stress management, ethics, and team building.
- Knowledge of alcohol and other drugs that includes: Alcohol and addictive drugs and their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual impact on the individual. Alcohol and addictive drugs and their impact on the family.
- Ability to determine if a medical emergency exists and to take appropriate action, when necessary.
- Knowledge of emergency procedures used in case of alcohol and/or drug overdose.
- Knowledge of the stages of alcohol and other drug withdrawals and ability to take appropriate action at each stage.
- Demonstrates initiative, personal responsibility, and ownership of work to meet monthly, quarterly and annual goals in both written and verbal formats.
ARC full-time employees enjoy very attractive benefits packages for employees and their families to include health, dental, vision, life insurance, a wide array of ancillary insurance products for life’s needs, 401(k) plan with company matching and to ensure the work-life balance - generous paid vacation, sick, holiday and maternity/paternity leave policies.
Come join ARC and transform lives anchored in strong family relationships, social responsibility and meaningful career paths by empowering our nationally recognized crisis to career model!
Addiction Recovery Care, LLC and its affiliated entities are an equal opportunity employer.
ADA Disclaimer: In developing this job description care was taken to include all competencies needed to successfully perform in this position. However, for Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) purposes, the essential functions of the job may or may not have been described for purposes of ADA reasonable accommodation. All reasonable accommodation requests will be reviewed and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
