CME- Care Coordinator IC

Overview

Location:

Albany, Georgia

Wage:
Up to

Department: IC3

Position Type:
Full Time

Position Title:

IC3 Care Coordinator

Position Number:
Work Unit: IC3 (Impact)

Immediate Supervisor's

Title:

IC3 Wraparound Supervisor

List positions supervised through immediate contact:
None

• Care Coordinators will deliver services and work in partnership with the individual and their family/caregivers/legal guardian to assemble the Child and Family Team (CFT).
• Provide 3 hours of care coordination per week per individual services and 1 face-to-face meeting per week per individual served.
• The care coordinator provides a broad range of case management services to patients/clients/youths and their families.
• Conducts patient/client/youth intakes, participates in treatment team planning, and performs crisis intervention.
• Assist in dealing with personal and social problems; may provide behavioral and emotional support to youths and families and/or serve as a liaison for social services.
• May perform case management duties and assist individuals in identifying and gaining access to required services and supports (medical, social, educational, development and other services).
• Encourage the use of community resources through referrals to appropriate traditional and non-traditional providers, paid, unpaid and natural supports.
• Coordinate interrelated activities for identifying, planning, budgeting, documenting, coordinating, securing, and reviewing the delivery and outcome of appropriate services for individuals through a wraparound approach.
• Maintain contact with the individual and their family/caregivers/legal guardian to assemble the Child and Family Team (CFT).
• Deliver services in partnership with the individual and family to support social, educational and vocational goals.
• Implements and organizes the delivery of specific social services within the community and monitors progress toward treatment goals.
• Complete intakes based on interviews with patients/clients/youths, their families, significant others and appropriate community agencies.
• Assist clients in locating and utilizing community resources including legal, medical, financial assistance, and other referrals.
• Provide crisis intervention services on a 24/7/365 basis as needed.
• Maintain program statistics and prepare intake and case history reports.
• Note:
  
  This position reports directly to the IC3 wraparound supervisor.

• Knowledge of agency policies and procedures.
• Ability to coordinate and organize delivery services.
• Ability to monitor youth's progress toward meeting established goals; knowledge of youth's treatment goals.
• Ability to interview youths and/or families using established techniques.
• Ability to develop youth profiles; knowledge of agency confidentiality policies and state/federal confidentiality laws and regulations.
• Knowledge of available community resources and ability to make appropriate referrals.
• Knowledge of crisis intervention; ability to develop client service plans to habilitate and rehabilitate clients and assist in attaining social, educational, and vocational goals.
• Ability to contact health care professionals to obtain additional background information.
• Ability to develop, implement, and facilitate workshops; knowledge of target population and required trainings.
• Knowledge of agency-specific software and available databases; ability to prepare reports and case history records.
• Knowledge of eligibility requirements and information required to complete applications.
• Knowledge of what constitutes an emergency situation.
• Entry qualifications: high school diploma or GED with two years’ experience in a social services related position OR a Bachelor's degree in a social services related field OR one year at the lower level or position equivalent.
• Physical:
  No lifting of more than 20 pounds.

Intensive Customized Care Coordination (IC3) is a provider-based High Fidelity Wraparound intervention comprised of a team selected by the family/caregiver in which the family and team identify the goals and the appropriate strategies to reach the goals identified by the family. High fidelity wraparound (HFW) is an ecologically based process…