What are the responsibilities and job description for the Care Coordinator position at Medix?
Care Coordinators are a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide care coordination to a caseload of severely mentally ill adults (as well as Children's Division) with multiple medical co morbidities and / or co-occurring substance abuse disorders. Advocate for and support the client, engage with community agencies / health care providers and others on his / her behalf to ensure access to services needed to increase wellness self-management and reduce emergency room visits and / or hospitalizations.
Responsibilities :
- Provide clinical support to the Team by providing consultation, education information around conditions, interventions, resources to maintain focus on outcomes and best practices.
- Conduct initial and ongoing assessments of clients to document strengths, needs, goals and resources.
- Maintain documents, records, and other related reports in an organized, timely and accurate manner as per policy and procedure.
- Provide face-to-face outreach, engagement and service planning in the field.
- Act as a linkage to community services including medical, behavioral, residential, entitlement and any other needed services per interdisciplinary care plan.
- Provide crisis intervention and follow-up.
- May be assigned other tasks and duties reasonably related to the job responsibilities.
Requirements :
Experience :
Preferred :
Medix is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
