What are the responsibilities and job description for the Medical Support Coordinator position at Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Community Services Board Inc?
About MPNN BH
At Middle Peninsula Northern Neck Behavioral Health (MPNN BH) we work hard to embrace diversity and inclusion and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work each day.
Our purpose is to serve our catchment area with the power of human connection in a compassionate and respectful way. If interested in serving your community while working at a rewarding career, you belong here.
The position of Medical Support Coordinator is responsible for:
- Functions from a recovery-based philosophy emphasizing hope, choice, and empowerment, personal responsibility, community focus, and
- Organizes and mobilizes community resources to meet the needs of the individual; provides information regarding behavioral and medical issues to improve understanding of needed services.
- Participates in care planning for individual served to link to appropriate services.
- Assesses and identifies the needs of, and resources to benefit, individuals served.
- Clinically documents all activities and coordination efforts in electronic health record (EHR).
- Actively works with medical and other behavioral health professions to coordinate care.
- Ability to effectively communicate with individuals with mental health, substance use/abuse, intellectual and developmental challenges.
- Maintains complete, accurate, and current clinical charts and records; performs routine office filing; receives and answers general correspondence and inquiries.
- Develops and maintains liaisons between all agency programs, other community entities, and organizations offering aid and services to Individuals.
- Educates and contacts community partners/referral sources to coordinate care, relay or gather information, and to build working relationships.
- Coordinates with physicians in the community.
