Skills Coach/Technician - Case Manager

About the role

The Skills Technician aids and supports parents who are unable to appropriately fulfill parenting and homemaking functions. The Technician assists families through advocating, teaching, demonstrating, monitoring, and/or role modeling new, appropriate skills towards self-sufficiency. This role may be responsible for transporting patients for appointments. Additionally, this role may also provide case management and skill building services to the assigned caseload. These services may be provided at a Bowen Health location, in the community, and in patients’ homes. A caseload may consist of child/adolescent or adult population depending on the location and the need.

Responsibilities

• Document patient progress notes.
• Review and update patient intake information (demographics) for accuracy.
• Coordinate homemaker services with Case Manager as determined by care coordination plan.
• Instruct patients in appropriate homemaker services including cleanliness of home, personal hygiene, budgeting and other activities of daily living.
• Advocate, teach, demonstrate, monitor, and model appropriate housekeeping.
• Advise families in private homes in dealing with problems such as cleanliness and household utilities.
• Participate in evaluating the needs of individuals served and confer with Case Manager to plan for continuing services.
• Transport patients to and from appointments in surrounding counties while abiding by speed limits and road signs.
• Perform simple vehicle maintenance, such as fueling the gas tank, cleaning exterior and interior, and taking the vehicle for oil changes.
• Ensure patients follow bus procedures when traveling with them on a bus, including being safely seated and using seat belts.
• Build natural support systems and promote greater patient independence.
• Assist patients to learn and develop new skills to improve functioning and independence.
• Ensure patients are linked with other healthcare providers as needed.
• Ensure patients are addressing the goals that are important to them and/or their referral source.
• Participate in medical appointments with the organization’s medical staff.
• Ensure patients are making progress and are discharged at an appropriate time.
• Transport patients as needed and appropriate to their care.
• Complete all clinical documentation accurately, using exact start and stop times, and submit timely.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Physical Requirements: Occupational Exposure Risk Classification: The normal work routine involves minimal exposure to blood, body fluids or tissues. The normal work routine has a minimal ergonomic risk for repetitive