Youth Day Treatment Care Coordinator

FCC Behavioral Health•Poplar Bluff, MO

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About The Position

The Day Treatment Care Coordinator provides psychoeducation, skill building, and care coordination to children and families experiencing serious emotional and behavioral challenges. Services may be delivered in school, home, or community settings depending on client needs. The coordinator supports clients in developing coping strategies and remaining in their school, community, and home environments; implements person-centered treatment goals; and helps clients and families manage behavioral health conditions and build natural supports. The role also involves crisis planning, coordination with families, schools, and service agencies, treatment-team participation, transition support, transportation when medically necessary and appropriate, and timely documentation. The coordinator must maintain CPI and CPR/First Aid certification and follow applicable evidence-based practices, agency policies, and certification standards.

Requirements

Meet one of the following qualification pathways: 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; Qualified Addiction Professional (QAP) status; an Associate of Applied Science degree in Behavioral Health Support as designated by the Department of Mental Health; 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, and must include at least one of the following: providing individual or group rehabilitation/habilitation and recovery/resiliency-focused services; teaching and modeling coping and management of psychiatric, developmental, or substance use issues while encouraging natural resources and supports; supporting efforts to find and maintain housing or employment or function appropriately in family, school, and community settings; or assisting individuals to achieve individualized treatment-plan goals and objectives.
Maintain CPI and CPR/First Aid certification.
Communicate information orally, effectively, and accurately.
Adhere to applicable evidence-based practice models and agency policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

Provide psychoeducation to clients with serious emotional and behavioral challenges to help them develop coping strategies and remain in school, the community, and the home.
Implement treatment goals according to the person-centered care plan.
Develop and review critical intervention and safety plans to provide immediate support during emotional or behavioral crises.
Facilitate communication between families, schools, and service agencies.
Provide transportation in a personal or agency vehicle, if available, when medically necessary and appropriate.
Educate clients and families on interventions and behavior modification techniques to better manage behavioral health conditions.
Connect clients and families with community resources and help them develop natural supports.
Help clients develop or improve interpersonal, social, family, community, and daily living skills.
Attend treatment-team meetings and prepare clients for transition out of day treatment into the regular classroom.
Complete required documentation in a timely manner.
Maintain CPI and CPR/First Aid certification.
Adhere to applicable evidence-based practice models.
Communicate information orally, effectively, and accurately.
Ensure the program operates within the constraints of the agency’s CARF and DMH certification standards and strategic plan related to clinical care.
Follow program and agency policies and procedures.
Perform other assigned job duties and special projects.