at Sedgwick County in Wichita, Kansas, United States
Job Description
Provide goal-directed, medically necessary peer support services to adults with severe and persistent mental illness, as a member of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) team to assist them to remain in the least restrictive environment.
Service Provision Peer Support Services
- Peer Support using identified and accepted methods to remediate symptoms of mental illness and/or improve emotional and functional well-being, while meeting the expectations of the CCBHC ACT model.
- Help patients regain the ability to make independent choices and to take a proactive role in treatment.
- Share “lived experience” and model successful behavior and strategies.
- Provide transportation in personal passenger vehicle to support patient attendance in medical appointments and other therapeutic goal-related activities to include development of community resources, employment or education access, social or patient-run activities and related supports.
Peer Support Group Facilitation
- Peer Support will make sure that groups are self-contained and goal directed to assist consumers in minimizing or resolving the effects of mental and emotional impairments.
- Peer Support will make sure that group facilitation is conducted with a recovery focus and using strategies for effective facilitation.
Documentation
- Complete progress notes in accordance with COMCARE and CCBHC guidelines which meet requirements for medical necessity, goal-directed treatment and patient response to treatment within prescribed timelines.
- Complete Notes for Record, Precautions statements and authorizations for release of records as required and/or recommended.
- Enters no show and cancellations for accuracy and completeness of medical record.
- Enter AIMS data as needed.
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