Outreach Worker - OHO - 2nd Shift - 3pm-11pm

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.