Job Overview
The Guidance Center is looking for skilled professionals looking to help strengthen families.
Benefits
The Guidance Center believes that our team members are our most valuable resources, and we invest in them accordingly. As an eligible full-time employee at The Guidance Center, you can take advantage of a variety of great benefits for you and your family, including:
- Excellent compensation
- Affordable, comprehensive medical benefits plans
- 401(k) with company contribution
- Flexible spending accounts, medical, and dependent
- Employer-paid dental and long-term disability insurance
- Employer-paid life insurance with an opportunity to choose additional voluntary life insurance for self, spouse and/or children
- Option to choose employee paid short-term disability
- Generous paid time off package
- License Supervision
- Employee Assistance Program
- Outstanding growth opportunities
- Experience working for an industry leader
- 11.5 observed company holidays
Care Coordinator
Southgate, MI
Full-Time Regular
Master’s
As a recognized leader in our field, The Guidance Center provides a broad range of services that have helped children, adults and families unlock potential and build better lives for more than 60 years. With 25 programs we offer treatment, prevention, growth and education services to more than 23,000 people annually. Together we: Nurture development. Foster resilience. Cultivate well-being.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Care Coordinator to join our team of talented professionals.
As a Care Coordinator in the Psychiatric Services Program, you will be responsible for the following:
- Responsible for managing the care and coordination needs of clients that have co-occurring primary and behavioral health conditions and who have been enrolled in the Behavioral Health Home.
- Must maintain an acute awareness of services, therapeutic activities and supports available within and outside of the agency that may be of benefit to individual enrollees and their families.
- Help assure access to services, benefits and entitlements, monitor and coordinate the delivery of services with other treatment team members, service providers and community organizations.
- Provides care management and care coordination for enrollees with mild, moderate and severe illness, under minimal supervision. \
- Leads the enrollee’s care and collaborates with members of the health care team to empower enrollees to manage their chronic behavioral and medical conditions.
- Assists those, who are at risk for developing chronic conditions, to minimize these risks.
- Serves in an expanded health care role to collaborate with PCP, psychiatrist, nurse, peer and other health care team members with enrollees to ensure the delivery of quality, efficient, patient centered, preventative and cost-effective healthcare services.
- Assess, plans, implements, monitors, and evaluates delivery of individualized enrollee care with the goal of optimizing the patient’s health status.
- Provides self-management support and patient education. Individual programs may have additional requirements.
- Services are delivered in the office setting and the community. Regular working hours are Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Some evening or weekend hours will be required.
To qualify for this position, you will need the following:
- Must possess a Behavioral Health degree with a corresponding Michigan license (LMSW, LLMSW, LPC, LLP, LP).
- Candidates must meet the criteria for Qualified Mental Health Professional, and Child Mental Health Professional within 120 days of hire
- Must have at least (1) one-year post-Master’s experience in treating, working with, or providing behavioral health services to adults and children with severe mental illness.
- Experience in a medical setting is preferred.
- Must have a good driving record and obtain a Chauffeur’s License.
- Must have the ability to engage mental health consumers, their families and supporters.
- Must be an expert in helping consumers identify their service needs and preferences and helping them build on their individual strengths, resources and supports to navigate the network of services available at the agency and in the community.
- Must have an orientation toward providing community partnerships for those served.
- Additional requirements include a nonjudgmental approach that reflects cultural competency and sensitivity to the unique needs and diverse experiences of those with mental illness, their families and providers.
- Candidates must be able to work independently, demonstrate effective organizational, verbal and written communication skills.
- Must have the ability to appropriately handle crisis situations.
- Must have excellent organizational and attention to detail skills in order to track and prepare data accurately and timely.
- Must have the ability interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or schedule form.
The Guidance believes that our team members are our most valuable resources, and we invest in them accordingly. We offer our employees a competitive salary, flexible scheduling opportunities, a team-oriented work environment and much more! If you are interested in becoming part of our world-class team, please submit your resume on-line at www.guidance-center.org/careers.
The Guidance Center is an Equal Employment Opportunity
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