What are the responsibilities and job description for the Care Coordinator position at Wellstone?
Job Description: The focus of the Care Coordinator is to address the critical domains of functioning for youth/young adults, to include working, learning, living, belonging and healing through a strengths-based individualized team process.
What you'll be doing:
- Assist with meeting the needs of youth/young adults served by DHR by facilitating their ability to live independently, obtaining employment, achieve their educational goals, and/or function in the community more effectively.
- Complete strength-based needs assessments, including the CANS, and effectively implement written service plans based on the assessments to meet individualized goals and objectives.
- Promote the involvement of youth/young adults, parents and other natural/community allies by arranging, brokering, and providing necessary support and services.
- Work collaboratively with team members to ensure that all goals are being achieved.
- To ensure that services provided are meaningful, respectful and promote self-determination.
- Participate in the development of crisis and backup support plans for each youth/young adult.
- Serve as liaison between the youth/young adult, their family members and various service providers to ensure community of care, including information for the electronic medical record, such as Releases of Information, demographic data, initial paperwork, financial information, etc.
- Work alongside families/care givers in providing information and supporting them emotionally and practically, provide psycho-education and co-lead multi-family groups.
- Develop and maintain adequately detailed and accurate documentation of services provided by the care coordinator and record these services in the electronic medical record.
- Provide transportation when necessary.
- Provide accurate information, both orally and written, for daily, weekly and monthly reports/meetings as stipulated by program demands.
- Complete other duties as assigned.
This job description is only a summary of the typical functions of the job and is not designed to be an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all possible duties, tasks, or responsibilities that are required of the employee as they may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, preferably in a human service field
- Enjoy working with youth/young adults
- Valid Alabama driver’s license and a suitable automobile to permit the required travel. Must show car insurance equal to or more than the State of Alabama standards for automobile insurance coverage
- Must become certified as a Care Coordinator (adults and children) by completing DMH-approved trainings
- Must understand and endorse a recovery-oriented approach to providing services
Benefits
What we offer:
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision premiums
- State Retirement participation through RSA plus an optional 457b plan with a company match
- Nine (9) paid holidays throughout the year
- Ability to continually accrue up to 15 days of PTO a year (unused rolls over)
- Company-paid Group Life and AD&D insurance and Long-Term Disability
- Licensure reimbursement
- Tuition discounts through learning partnerships with Athens State University and Capella University
We are compassionate towards those impacted by behavioral health disorders.
We are dedicated to one another through collaboration and teamwork.
We are optimistic problem-solvers who do what it takes to get the job done.
