Bilingual (English/Cantonese) Social Worker/ Service Coordinator

About This Role

This role involves interviewing new participants, establishing treatment goals, and ensuring timely and professional completion of assessment documentation. The position assists with arranging and monitoring community-based services, focusing on coordinating medically-related physical, mental, and behavioral service needs.

Responsibilities

• Inform participants of and refer participants to available community services
• Participate in the completion of comprehensive assessments and plans of care
• Write service coordination notes in the participant's health record upon service commencement, when significant changes occur, and at least one time every 90 days or more often as necessary to ensure the health record reflects the current clinical needs of the participant
• Provide, as appropriate, coordination of the medically-related physical, mental, and behavioral, service needs of a participant at the time of enrollment, during treatment and care in the Program, or at the time of discharge
• Assist with any personal, social, family, or adjustment problems the participant may experience at the Program
• Refer the participant or family to the appropriate community resources if the participant or the participant's family requires specialized counseling
• Coordinate services if a participant needs services from other community agencies, and no agency is acting as coordinator of services for that participant
• Assess, plan, implement, coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the services required to meet a participant's needs
• Complete accurate and timely documentation of all services
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in human services from an accredited college or university
• At least one year of recent experience working with adults in a professional capacity
• Cantonese language proficiency