Clinician II - Forensics
CIBH MENTAL HLTH SVC
- Clinician II will be discharging Chesapeake Residents from the State Mental Hospitals, to include setting up aftercare and developing Discharge Assistance Program (DAP) Plans, if appropriate. This position will work with primarily Civil and Safety Net Patients.
- The Clinician II will facilitate the discharge of consumers from the State Mental Hospitals.
The Liaison will assist clients placed in the community until a case manager is assigned or have their first psychiatric evaluation.
- The Clinician II will work the Discharge Assistance Project (DAP) budget and the Office of Census Reduction in order to facilitate consumer discharges from the state mental health facility.
- The Clinician II will open an electronic medical record and maintain documentation on each consumer in a state mental health facility.
- Establishes and maintains inter-agency relationships and other supportive community services.
- Maintains records according to existing standards and policies and to ensure protection of client confidentiality and conducts quality reviews of all charts.
- Prepares reports on clients for both inter-agency use and State Hospitals, DBHDS and the Courts.
- Provides individual transitional case management, residential and housing support, crisis stabilization/intervention, and training and assistance with activities of daily living.
- Provides clinical consultation to Forensic staff.