Essential Functions:

• Assessing the young adult’s needs, ensuring appropriate connections to treatment team members and outside resources are initiated and followed up on. Ensuring outside treatment team members are contacted within 3 days of youth’s admission to ensure strong connections are made with all treatment team members.
• Serves as the initial point of contact for a variety of referral sources, including DCBS workers and community partners.
• Facilitates weekly treatment team meetings, coordinates treatment team schedule and invites to team members.
• Communicate and facilitate with appropriate treatment team members the young adult’s needs, treatment concerns, and safety issues as outlined in BGH Policy and Procedures. (i.e bed holds, clothing needs, medical, hospitalization, CSA services, OT services, Vocational Rehab)
• Open and maintain case files for youth that include all documents required. Make sure young adults understand program requirements, goals and treatment plans, as well as grievance forms, clients’ rights, release of information and other relevant forms.
• Responsible for updating and maintaining DCBS worker and client contact information and sending internally
• Be apart of new client admission, with Program Supervisor and other leadership.
• Ensure clients complete necessary paperwork. Note the client’s progress, performance, and achievements so this information can be used when compiling case notes, case review/audit documentation, progress reports and other critical documentation.
• Responsible for monthly and weekly connections to DCBS, Aetna, and other possible outside supports
• Completes monthly state required documentation, to include 1294 A’s and B’s.
• Collaborate and implement discharge plans with treatment team from the beginning of admission. Exploring and connecting additional outside supports for young adult to be successful after discharge.
• Responsible for participating in URC bi-weekly meetings and collaboration efforts within BGH programs
• Assist with transition from one program within BGH to another via appropriate documentation and communication.
• Completing documentation at discharge to ensure representation of all needs are noted for a successful transition for young adult.
• Sends discharge notifications to program supervisor or their designees.
• Meets regularly with the immediate supervisor as a means of enhancing professional growth, reviewing, and processing the provision of care coordination services, and dealing with appropriate administrative issues.
• Coordinate referrals for Community Support Associate (CSA) and Occupational Therapy (OT) services, and ensure all documentation required for billing is accurate, timely and submitted for reimbursement in a timely manner.
• Participate in On-Call Rotation

Qualifications:

1. 1. Education - A Bachelor’s degree in social services or other related/relevant field. Master’s Degree preferred.
   2. Experience/Credentials – Minimum of two years’ experience working with older adolescents and young adults in a residential treatment, mental health/psychiatric hospital or pre-independent/independent living setting. Excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills, including proficiency with appropriate computer software/hardware (i.e., Windows, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Power Point, Word and other relevant software/hardware).
   3. Other - Interact professionally with BGH employees, clients, visitors, government agencies and the general public. Maintain confidentiality of all client information. Must be at least 21 years of age and legally able to work in U.S. Valid driver’s license and insurability by BGH’s insurance carrier required. Successful completion of all background screenings and pre-employment drug screen. Successful negative, post-contingent offer and annual TB screenings.

 Benefits

BGH has a competitive compensation package, a full range of employer-paid benefits including free health, dental, life, a 401k company match at 50%, and a Paid Time Off policy that includes a total of 24 days off per year, which includes 7 holidays. BGH is a Drug-Free Workplace and will conduct drug testing pre-employment, for cause/suspicion, and randomly.