Skills Coach/Technician - Case Manager

Bowen Health
Fort Wayne, IN
Category Healthcare
Job Description
The Skills Coach/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.

Requirements

  • 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 skills.
  • Advise families in private home in dealing with problems such as cleanliness, and household utilities.
  • Transport patients to and from appointments in surrounding counties while abiding by speed limits and road signs.
  • Perform simple vehicle maintenance, such as fueling gas tank, cleaning exterior & interior, taking 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 needed healthcare providers
  • 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 amount of time
  • Transport patients as needed and appropriate to their care
  • Complete all clinical documentation accurately, using exact start and stop times, and submitting timely.
  • Other duties as assigned.
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