Care Coordinator - ERE Poplar Bluff

FCC Behavioral Health•Poplar Bluff, MO

About The Position

The Care Coordinator (CC) helps individuals and families develop skills, access resources, and manage illness so they can succeed in the living, working, learning, and social environments of their choice. The CC teaches, models, and practices skills with persons served to promote recovery and wellness. The position provides education about mental illness and/or substance use disorders, connects people with community resources and natural supports, and supports the development of interpersonal, social, family, community, and independent-living skills. The Care Coordinator also completes timely documentation, follows applicable evidence-based practice models and agency policies, and helps ensure program operations meet relevant certification standards and the agency strategic plan for clinical care.

Requirements

A master’s or bachelor’s degree in a human services field from a college or university listed in the U.S. Department of Education’s database of accredited schools; or Qualified Addiction Professional (QAP) status; or an Associate of Applied Science degree in Behavioral Health Support as designated by the Department of Mental Health.
Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree unrelated to a human services field plus two years of qualifying experience, or four years of qualifying experience.
Qualifying experience must include delivering services to individuals with mental illness, substance use disorders, or developmental disabilities.
Qualifying experience must include at least one of the following: providing one-on-one or group services with a rehabilitation/habilitation and recovery/resiliency focus; teaching and modeling ways to cope with and manage psychiatric, developmental, or substance use issues while encouraging natural resources and supports; supporting efforts to find and maintain housing or employment and/or function appropriately in family, school, and community settings; or assisting individuals to achieve goals and objectives in their individualized treatment plan.

Responsibilities

Educate persons served to help them learn about and manage mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
Provide transportation for persons served in the staff member’s personal vehicle or an agency vehicle, if available, when medically necessary and appropriate.
Link persons served with community resources and help them develop natural supports.
Help persons served develop or improve interpersonal, social, family, community, and independent-living skills.
Complete required documentation in a timely manner.
Adhere to applicable evidence-based practice models.
Demonstrate working knowledge of diagnostic criteria for substance use and/or mental disorders.
Communicate information orally in an effective and accurate manner.
Help ensure the program operates within applicable agency certification standards (CARF, DMH) and the strategic plan related to clinical care.
Abide by program and agency policies and procedures.
Perform other job duties and special projects as assigned.