Clinical Treatment Coordinator II

Responsibilities/Job Description:

Overview

The Clinical Treatment Coordinator (CTC) will partner with the physician and interdisciplinary team to navigate the patient/family through treatment episode, including assessment, treatment planning, discharge planning and community re-entry. This includes, but is not limited to: managing patient/family expectations, responding to the crisis of hospitalization, supporting the discharge and community re-entry needs and monitoring and managing patient length of stay and avoidable days.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates clinical competence in the treatment planning process.
• Coordinates treatment planning and leads management of each case.
• Coordinates/facilitates the development of treatment plan by partnering with the physician and collaborates with patient, family and interdisciplinary team.
• Develops an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, clinical diagnosis, level of functioning and other relevant needs.
• Implements, reassesses and adjust treatment plan as necessary.
• Demonstrates clinical competence to assess individual patient needs.
• Completes an interdisciplinary assessment tool with each patient.
• Updates interdisciplinary assessments tool each week.
• Demonstrates clinical competency to partner with inter-disciplinary team in the treatment planning process.
• Assists in developing an individualized plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, clinical diagnosis, level of functioning and other relevant needs.
• Implements, reassesses and adjusts treatment plan as necessary.
• Communicates frequently and effectively with interdisciplinary team to ensure continuity and coordination of care.
• Documentation is thorough, timely, legible and clinically appropriate and meets regulatory requirements.
• Demonstrates competence in developing a clinically relevant transition/discharge plan.
• Partners with physician and family to provide leadership to the inter-disciplinary team
• Collaborates with patient, family, and provides input to interdisciplinary team in developing a discharge plan based on age, social and cultural considerations, clinical diagnosis and level of functioning and other relevant needs.
• Demonstrates the ability to advance evidence based practice by utilizing standards, guidelines and pathways for care delivery. Incorporates data and information into practice to continually improve care and practice so that patient outcomes are enhanced.
• Promotes a culture of evidence based practice by participation in any of, but not limited to, the following activities:
• Utilizing evidence based policies in clinical practice
• Attends and participates in learning opportunities about evidence based practice
• Membership in hospital or unit based practice council/research council
• Evidence based practice project (e.g. policy development or poster presentation)
• Journal club, journal article critique and circulation
• Literature review
• Development of standard/pathway/guideline for patient care
• Presentation
• Research study

Required Qualifications

• Master of Arts  in psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy or a related field. or
• Doctorate  in psychology, counseling, marriage and family therapy or a related field.
• Master of Arts in Social Work or
• Doctorate of Social Work
• Completion of Behavioral Control Situation training, and retraining every two years or as often
• 2 years therapy, case management, or assessment experience, including providing face to face therapeutic/clinical services to adult, or child/adolescent clients.
• Basic Life Support (American Heart Assoc, Red Cross or MTN) Upon Hire
• Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) Upon Hire or
• Licensed Psychologist (LP)  Upon Hire or
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) Upon Hire or
• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) Upon Hire

 

Qualifications: $91,083.20- $119,745.60 Annual