Outreach Worker - OHO

Job Description

Job Description

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.

• 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.