#1 Ability to work independently and collaboratively as part of the interdisciplinary treatment team, including attending and sharing appropriate information regarding clients in the daily morning meeting. Advocating for clients’ rights and preferences with the team, their families, the community, etc.
#2 Builds a therapeutic relationship with individuals served and effectively interacts in a professional and appropriate manner with individuals, families, and other community agencies.
#3 Provide service coordination (case management) for an assigned group of clients including coordinating and monitoring the activities of the individual treatment team; assume primary responsibility for developing, writing, implementing, evaluating and revising overall treatment goals in collaboration with the client and the individualized treatment team, ensuring immediate changes are made in the treatment plans as clients’ needs change; educate and support clients and their families.
#4 Provides effective one to one therapeutic interventions with the individual and family, facilitates group therapy, psychotherapy, symptom management and other appropriate therapeutic interventions.
#5 Provide practical help and side by side support, mentoring, advocacy, coordination, problem solving, direct assistance and supervision to help clients obtain the necessities of daily living including medical and dental healthcare; legal and advocacy services; financial supports such as entitlements (SSI, SSDI); housing subsidies (HUD, Section 8, 811); money management training: and transportation.
Independence Health System offers patients nationally recognized quality care in cardiology, orthopedics, palliative care, and maternity as well as a broad range of surgical, medical, emergency, and behavioral health services, and an extensive network of primary care physicians. With five hospitals, nearly 1,000 healthcare providers and more than 7,000 employees, Independence Health System serves a 10-county region and is the largest employer in Butler and Westmoreland counties.
Identified locally as a Healthiest Employer in Western Pennsylvania since 2011, Excela Health is ranked among the nation’s Healthiest 100 Workplaces, and recognized as a Community Health Champion by the Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania.
