Care Specialist
About The Position
The Care Specialist provides person-centered assistance to clients as they develop life skills and personal goals. The role coordinates care with a multidisciplinary team, helps clients connect with community resources, and provides crisis intervention and prevention to clients and their families. The Care Specialist helps maintain essential elements of clinical records, including treatment plans, progress notes, reports, and correspondence with external agents, while ensuring compliance standards. The role teaches clients activities of daily living in individual and group settings, follows organizational guidelines and protocols, and maintains required clinical documentation. It also coordinates with community support systems, schools, OFC’s, and other family service providers, and provides telephone and on-site crisis support and follow-up. Centerstone is a nonprofit behavioral health system serving people of all ages. It emphasizes respect, expertise, integrity, empowerment, quality, and safety, and seeks to foster an inclusive culture that values employees’ voices and experiences.
Requirements
- Associate’s degree required; two years of experience or two years of college coursework in a related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.
- Ability to communicate effectively in writing, verbally, in person, and virtually.
- Customer service skills.
- Time management skills.
- Analytical skills.
- Knowledge of community resources.
Nice To Haves
- Two years of professional experience working directly with youth and families in child welfare, a school, childcare, criminal justice, behavioral health, or a related setting.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate client care with a multidisciplinary team and help develop and maintain clinical records, including treatment plans, progress notes, reports, and correspondence with external agents.
- Ensure compliance standards are met in clinical documentation and care coordination.
- Teach and train clients in activities of daily living in group and individual settings.
- Provide services according to organizational guidelines and protocols.
- Connect clients with appropriate community support systems.
- Maintain regular communication with schools, OFC’s, and other family service providers involved with clients and their families.
- Provide telephone and on-site crisis intervention and prevention, as well as follow-up, to clients and their families.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision health coverage
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- 403b retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off and ten paid holidays
- Company-paid AD&D insurance, life insurance, and long-term disability
- Employee Resource Groups
- Continuing education opportunities
- Employee Assistance Program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
