Service Coordinator OSAR [1077]

Job Description

Job Description

Position : Service Coordinator OSAR [1077]

Program : Amarillo, Texas – Outreach, Screening, Assessment and Referral (OSAR)

Salary range : $40,809.60 Annually

Shift available : Full-time

At Texas Panhandle Centers (TPC), you’ll be part of a caring team dedicated to making lives better for over 10,000 individuals and families each year across the Texas Panhandle. As a non-profit, TPC provides a wide range of services from mental health and substance use support to intellectual and developmental disability care, empowering clients of all ages to achieve dignity and independence. With seven service centers located throughout the region, our staff work together with our clients to achieve our mission to create an accessible system of care that supports individual choice and truly make a difference. We invite you to join us in our vision of “Making Lives Better!”

Essential duties and responsibilities :

• Staff will maintain ethical and professional communications at all times using respectful Trauma-Informed Care language
• Provide screening and assessment to individuals (adults and adolescents) with substance use / abuse related issues and determine appropriate treatment (in-patient or our patient) for such individuals
• Refer clients to appropriate agencies providing substance use / abuse treatment
• Determining priority of individuals on waiting list for in-patient treatment
• Scheduling appointments for OSAR services
• Providing appropriate follow-up services with clients in out-patient treatment
• Entering data in CMBHS in a timely manner
• Meets productivity standards as set forth by OSAR, supervisor and center management
• Submits all client data, time sheets, travel requests, leave requests, purchase requisitions, and special reports to Administration in accordance with agency procedures and within the time frames specified
• Works as part of the on-call rotation
• Maintain training as required by the OSAR contract and by the agency
• Provide services to regional clinics as required by the OSAR contract
• Coordinate services with probation departments, courts, and other agencies as necessary
• Attends training as required by agency standards
• Intervenes when necessary using verbal PMAB, CPR, and First Aid as needed
• Performs other essential functions and tasks necessary to carry out the purposes of the position.
• Adheres to TPC Business Code of Conduct and reports concerns if ethical and / or business standards defined in the code are compromised

Required qualifications to be successful in the job :

Preferred qualifications to be successful in the job :

At TPC, passion and meaningful work is rewarded! We offer employees :