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Department

Job Summary

Under general professional supervision, performs behavioral health case coordination services in the community including planning, organizing, and treatment referral/disposition. Engages patients through community outreach, both independently and with various external partners, to assess patient needs and develop plan for accessing care. Delivers services in accordance with the approved plan of treatment and plan of care. Assists behavioral healthcare providers in understanding significant social and emotional factors related to the patient's behavioral health issues.


Essential Functions:

• Engages clients in various community settings and identifies client's behavioral health needs, plans for implementation and/or coordinates care palns through resources acquisition, monitoring, advocacy, collaboration, and evaluation (60%)
• Coordinates follow-up treatment referrals to various levels of care including outpatient therapy and psychiatry, intensive outpatient programing, long term care and other services as indicated. Identifies potential barriers to accessing care and works with clients to identify solutions and access additional resources to reduce those barriers. (20%)
• Develops knowledge base of risk factors for psychosocial functioning, wellness and health promotion and provides basic education to patient. Utilizes methods, techniques, and approaches to the delivery of care that are consistent with the patient population and in conformance with the specific care plan developed for each patient.
  (10%)
• Completes documentation of care coordination activities and interventions per established standards and guidelines. Prepares and submits data and information to behavioral health supervisor in a timely manner. (10%)

Education:

• Master's Degree in Social Work, Counseling, Public Health, Human Services, or other closely related field required.

Work Experience:

• 1-3 years experience working in mental health and/or substance use disorders and/or with individuals experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness required.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of emotional and social factors that affect patient?s health.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Skilled in identifying problems/opportunities to improve care.
• Ability to utilize resources, such as family and community agencies to assist the patient to improve life in the community.
   
• Ability to collect key information from the patient, family and the community as part of the care coordination assessment.
   
• Ability to communicate to the appropriate staff and other identified supports information about the patient?s care plan.
   
• Ability to manage time sufficiently to achieve established goals.
• Proficiency with software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
   

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Benefits

• Outstanding benefits including up to 27 paid days off per year, immediate retirement plan employer contribution up to 9.5%, and generous medical plans

• Free RTD EcoPass (public transportation)

• On-site employee fitness center and wellness classes

• Childcare discount programs & exclusive perks on large brands, travel, and more

• Tuition reimbursement & assistance

• Education & development opportunities including career pathways and coaching

• Professional clinical advancement program & shared governance

• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) eligible employer+ free student loan coaching and assistance navigating the PSLF program 

• National Health Service Corps (NHCS) and Colorado Health Service Corps (CHSC) eligible employer

Our Values

• Respect

• Belonging

• Accountability

• Transparency

All job applicants for safety-sensitive positions must pass a pre-employment drug test, once a conditional offer of employment has been made.

Denver Health is an integrated, high-quality academic health care system considered a model for the nation that includes a Level I Trauma Center, a 555-bed acute care medical center, Denver?s 911 emergency medical response system, 10 family health centers, 19 school-based health centers, Rocky Mountain Poison & Drug Safety, a Public Health Institute, an HMO and The Denver Health Foundation.

As Colorado?s primary, and essential, safety-net institution, Denver Health is a mission-driven organization that has provided billions in uncompensated care for the uninsured. Denver Health is viewed as an Anchor Institution for the community, focusing on hiring and purchasing locally as applicable, serving as a pillar for community needs, and caring for more than 185,000 individuals and 67,000 children a year.

Located near downtown Denver, Denver Health is just minutes away from many of the cultural and recreational activities Denver has to offer.

We strongly support diversity in the workforce and Denver Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE).

Denver Health values the unique ideas, talents and contributions reflective of the needs of our community. For more about our commitment to diversity visit: https://www.denverhealth.org/for-professionals/careers/diversity-and-inclusion

Applicants will be considered until the position is filled.

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About Denver Health

Take your career to the next level at Denver Health, where we offer a robust benefits package and endless opportunities for growth. Denver Health is a nationally-ranked, locally-trusted, premier healthcare institution located in the heart of Denver, Colorado.Twenty-five percent of all Denver residents, or approximately 150,000 individuals, receive their health care here. We are known as an integrated health care system that encompasses multidisciplinary academic specialties, a community health system, a level I adult trauma center, pediatric emergency and urgent care center home to Denver Public Health and many of the nation's leaders in medicine.Denver Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer At Denver Health we pride ourselves on our commitment to diversity. Equal opportunity is a fundamental principle of Denver Health. As an equal opportunity employer, Denver Health is committed to recruit, hire, promote and administer all human resource actions in a non-discriminatory manner. Denver Health is committed to providing equal opportunities in all business practices and to all persons regardless of age, race, color, national origin, genetic information, religion, sex, pregnancy, disab...ility, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status or veteran status (collectively “protected status”). Denver Health strives to maintain a work environment that is free from unlawful harassment and discrimination and will not tolerate any such conduct by employees or directed at employees within the scope of their employment. Read the full Human Resources Employee Principles and Practices policy.

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