Carmel, NY - Discharge Planner (CASAC or LMHC)

Arms Acres•Carmel, NY

2d•Onsite

About The Position

This position provides comprehensive clinical services focused on discharge planning. The role involves maintaining ongoing communication with the clinical team, regional contacts, families, legal entities, and referral agencies. The Discharge Planner is an integral part of the team, particularly for difficult patient placements, and ensures all discharge plans for rehab patients include necessary appointments. The role also involves evaluating patient functioning, following up with patients who miss aftercare appointments, offering referrals, and documenting progress and interventions within regulatory timeframes. Maintaining contact with referents for treatment and discharge planning, providing individual, group, and family treatment, and establishing linkage agreements with other providers for aftercare services are key responsibilities. The position also includes participation in quality improvement activities, responding to facility emergencies, supervising interns and volunteers, maintaining professional competence through continuing education, attending treatment planning meetings, and potentially carrying a caseload of five or more patients. Coordination of presentations from long-term facilities and ensuring documentation requirements are met are also part of the role.

Requirements

High school diploma, general education degree (GED) or bachelor’s degree with CASAC certification or MSW, LMHC or master’s degree in related field.
CASAC-T accepted during the Orientation Period with the contingency of passing CASAC examination and CASAC successfully completed within a designated Period

Responsibilities

Discharge planning for patients, ongoing communications with clinical team, referents, legal, family and referring agencies.
Oversee and participate as an integral part of the team for all difficult placements for patients.
Review and oversee all discharge plans for rehab patients for inclusion of appointments to PCP.
Provides/ensures comprehensive evaluation of patient's functioning as defined by facility policy and procedures.
Follow up with all AMA’s and no shows for aftercare through phone call and outreach. Offer referral to aftercare programs as needed. Documents patient progress and own interventions in case record. Need to remain within periods of regulatory requirements.
Maintains contact with referents to assist in treatment planning and discharge planning. This may include phone calls, collaborative calls with patients and collaborating with HIM dept. to ensure referral packets are sent.
Provides individual, group and family treatment (psycho-education, life skills) as identified in patient treatment plans in relation to discharge planning, relapse prevention and as requested by Program/Assistant director.
Maintain linkage agreements with other providers for aftercare services/placement.
Participates in quality improvement activities related to position and as requested by program director.
Responds to emergencies in the facility by following appropriate procedures for ensuring patient safety during emergency procedures.
Supervises interns and volunteers at the discretion of the director.
Maintains professional competence in discipline and treatment specialty areas through continuing education and supervision.
Attend daily treatment planning as well as new patient orientation directed by supervisor.
Participates in facility program and quality improvement activities.
May be responsible at times to carry a caseload of five or more patients dependent upon the needs of the facility.
Participates in Performance Initiatives.
Responsible with coordination of presentations from long-term facilities to our patients and staff.
Responsible for documentation requirements which will include D/C plan, PAS 45 and extended day LOCATDR’s.
Other duties as assigned by your supervisor.