OUTREACH SPECIALIST

Position Summary

Responsible to work as a member of an interdisciplinary team to provide care monitoring and in-person support services to assigned consumers. Engages service participants in services both within the healthcare service delivery system and the general community.

Meetings and Reviews

• Meet with the entire team once weekly to review treatment needs of consumers.

Care Plan Development

• Contribute to development of comprehensive care plan for designated service participants.

Support Services

• Assist service participants in understanding, acquiring, and maintaining needed health care services and developing a healthy lifestyle.
• Plan for and assist consumers in activities of daily living skills.
• Assess life domain needs of consumers living arrangements, financial, vocational/educational, health, social support, leisure/recreational and emotional/mental health.
• Assess needs and assist service participants in developing skills related to independent living and successfully navigating the service delivery system.
• Assess needs and assist service participants with planning for and learning social and recreational skills to better interact with others in their family and/or community.
• Assess, teach, and assist service participants in carrying out job seeking skills and other factors related to employment.
• Assess and assist service participants during times of crisis in order to facilitate re-stabilization.
• Assess needs and assist service participants in establishing and building support system and resources.
• Provide on-going linkage, monitoring, planning and evaluation, and advocacy for team consumers.

Inpatient Treatment Planning

• Participates in inpatient treatment planning when a consumer is hospitalized in order to ensure continuity of care.

Service Participant Assistance

• Assess needs and assist service participants in obtaining medical, dental, and other personal care services.
• Assess eligibility and assist consumers in obtaining financial entitlement, such as SSI, SSDI, and all other programs they may be eligible to receive.

Team Participation

• Attends required staff meetings, training sessions, treatment teams, and other meetings as directed.
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives.

Driving and Insurance

• Local travel required.
• Employee must have a valid Tennessee driver’s license Class D and state mandated minimum insurance coverage.
• Driving record must meet Covenant Health minimum standards at the date of hire and throughout employment tenure.

Qualifications

• Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in a health-related field of counseling, psychology, or social work, or must be licensed as a nurse (LPN or RN).
• Minimum Experience: One (1) year relevant experience if bachelor’s degree is not in counseling, psychology, or social work or if not licensed as a registered nurse.
• Licensure Requirement: Employee must be licensed in the State of TN if RN or LPN.