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Description
O'Hare Outreach Worker will provide formal outreach and other clinical services to O'Hare Outreach Clients.
Essential Functions:
- Provide coordinated outreach services to prepare potential clients to accept services and formal outreach services to triage and register clients.
- Provide initial medical/psychological and additional assessments to registered clients leading to the definition of treatment issues, and continued care/aftercare planning to assigned patients and document same in patient charts.
- Maintain assigned patient charts in manner which meets Haymarket Center's Quality Assurance standards and is clear its documentation of patient's progress in treatment.
- Provide case management, referral, and referent contact services to assigned patients and document same in the patient's chart.
- Monitor physical and emotional health status of patients and facilitate appropriate referral when assessed to need medical, psychiatric, dental evaluation, and care.
- Provide crisis intervention as required and follow-up clinical assessment with patient(s) involved to determine need to appropriate clinical course of actions.
- Attend patient staffing/interventions and document outcomes in patient chart.
- Meet weekly with Supervisor or designee for clinical supervision.
- Seek further supervision when appropriate and necessary.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or Equivalent
- Knowledge of and ability to perform all "Core Functions".
- Must have a Valid Illinois Driver's License, in addition to meeting the agency requirements to become an approved driver.
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