Care Coordinator Queens

New Horizon Counseling Center; New York (NY); On-site; USD 46,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Medical/Dental

401k (with company match)

Profit Sharing

Employee Referral Program

Lunch and Learn Workshops

Supplemental Benefits

Paid Time off

Holiday Pay

Job summary

A mental health service provider in New York seeks a Care Coordinator to assist severely mentally ill adults. Responsibilities include clinical support, client assessments, outreach and linking to community services. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in relevant fields and experience in human services. Offers competitive salary and benefits including medical, dental, and 401k.

Qualifications

• 1 year of direct services experience with clients diagnosed with severe mental illness.
• Ability to travel using various modes of reliable transportation.
• Knowledge of Medicaid, Social Security, and other entitlements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical support through consultation and education.
• Conduct assessments to document client strengths and needs.
• Facilitate discharge planning with hospital care teams.
• Assist clients with benefits applications.
• Identify social determinants of health impacting clients.
• Engage and plan services in the field.
• Link clients to necessary community services.
• Provide crisis intervention and follow-up.
• Maintain timely and accurate documentation.
• May be assigned other tasks and duties reasonably related to the job responsibilities.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Crisis intervention

Bilingual (Spanish)

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field

Job description

The Care Coordinator functions as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide care coordination to a caseload of severely mentally ill adults 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.
• Follow up with hospital care teams during admissions and discharges to facilitate discharge planning and arranging outpatient follow-up
• Assist with applications for benefits such as SNAP, SSI/SSD, HEAP
• Identify and address social determinants of health such as: food insecurity, transportation, housing
• 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.
• Maintain documents, records, and other related reports in an organized, timely and accurate manner as per policy and procedure.
• May be assigned other tasks and duties reasonably related to the job responsibilities.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in one of the following fields:

Social Work, Psychology, Education, Rehabilitation, Occupational Therapy, Counseling, Community Mental Health, Sociology, Physical or Recreational therapy. Degrees in other related areas may be considered.

Experience:

• One (1) year of related human services experience required in providing direct services to clients diagnosed with severe mental illness, HIV/AIDS or other disabilities, in order to link them to a broad range of services essential to successfully living in the community.
• You must have the ability and willingness to regularly travel, in some instances with clients in Agency vehicle to many locations using various modes of reliable and safe transportation
• You must have excellent interpersonal and time management skills.

Preferred:

• Knowledge of Medicaid, Social Security, and other entitlements
• _Bilingual (Spanish)
  _

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary
• Medical/Dental
• 401k (with company match)
• Profit Sharing
• Employee Referral Program
• Lunch and Learn Workshops
• Supplemental Benefits
• Paid Time off
• Holiday Pay

Job Type: Full-time