Community Support Specialist
Company: Communicare
Location: Sardis
Posted on: January 26, 2023
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Job Description:
Communicare is a community mental health center in North Central
Mississippi that serves Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Tate
and Yalobusha counties. Communicare offers specialized treatment
services for adults with serious mental illness, children with
serious emotional disturbances, individuals with substance abuse
disorders and individuals with intellectual and developmental
disabilities.Communicare is currently seeking a Community Support
Specialist.Responsibilities: Facilitate treatment, provide
follow-up services, and ensure continuity of appropriate care to
severely emotionally disturbed and seriously mentally ill
individuals who may be at risk of hospitalization or re
hospitalization.Duties: 1. Obtain and maintain proper certification
to perform CSS, taking full ownership of this process. This
includes completing required annual training, maintaining
supportive documentation, and submitting applications independently
and timely. 2. Meet the set productivity requirement by planning
ahead, developing a schedule, and seeking support from office
manager and/or CSS Director when deficiencies are anticipated. 3.
Provide case management services for the clients who meet the
criteria for Community Support Services (CSS). 4. Provide ongoing
assessment of clients' needs and develop appropriate treatment
planning. 5. Coordinate case management and mental health center
services provided to clients, with services provided by other
agencies. 6. Provide supportive counseling to clients and their
families as needed. 7. Provide assistance to CSS clients in making
applications for benefits and assistance. 8. Provide assistance to
clients regarding housing. 9. Provide assistance to clients in
securing medications and developing medication management plan. 10.
Assure access for CSS clients (when needed) to receive mental
health and other community services. 11. Provide home visits as
determined by the level of need of each client. 12. Provide
advocacy services for CSS clients. 13. Provide family counseling
and education concerning mental illness to family members of CSS
clients. 14. Maintain a case load as assigned including proper
documentation and paperwork. 15. Attend meetings and training
related to CSS as designated by the Director of Community Support
Services. 16. Complete and turn in to the Director of Community
Support Services any reports as requested. 17. Complete and turn in
progress notes daily in electronic medical record system to
Supervisor. 18. Attend to tasks related to loss prevention such as
verifying active Medicaid via Envision, ensuring appropriate prior
authorization is in place, and communicating any payer changes with
the treatment team and billing department prior to service
provision. 19. Attend and actively participate in supervisory
meetings as requested including office staffing and treatment
teams. 20. Perform after hours duties related to on-call crisis
team as assigned by Mobile Crisis Team Coordinator and Director of
Community Support Services. 21. Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:1. Bachelor's degree in social work, counseling,
psychology, or a related field. 2. Ability to relate effectively to
severely mentally ill individuals. 3. Have transportation, hold a
valid driver's license, have automobile insurance, and have a safe
driving record 4. Must have, and maintain, a Communicare insurable
driving record
Keywords: Communicare, Memphis , Community Support Specialist, Other , Sardis, Tennessee
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