Laura Jetawo

Objective:

To provide compassionate guidance and oversee patient recovery through individual and group counseling sessions, ensuring quality care and timely documentation.

Experience:

• Conduct individual and group counseling sessions, offering high-quality guidance.
• Plan, oversee, and document patient recovery progress.
• Co-facilitate group or family sessions as required.
• Complete all patient care, treatment, and incident documentation promptly and clearly.
• Prepare individual treatment plans for each patient, including initial and follow-up assessments.
• Assess patient needs and make referrals to other programs or facilities if necessary.
• Plan aftercare for patients as needed.
• Provide crisis intervention when necessary.
• Manage cases for patients, ensuring personalized care.
• Serve as a liaison between referral sources and patients as required.

• Conducts group session as scheduled for the patients both adolescents and adults who are experiencing mental health and chemical dependency problems.
• Utilizes sound judgment during patient interactions,observe and documents any changes in a patient's condition.
• Follows the therapeutic interventions outlined by the treatment team for each patient.
• Ensures awareness of patient's individualized plan of care including goals and interventions
• Provides information to the RN that assists in the development and revision of the treatment plan
• Employs appropriate crisis intervention techniques as needed.
• Employs facility approved CPI techniques as necessary.
• Guides patients in adjusting to life situations, developing new skills, and making desired changes
• Practices universal precautions and environmental safety guidelines.
• Establishes and maintains a professional therapeutic relationship with patients.

• Assisting families with selecting suitable contractors to provide services as defined by the NOA.
• Attending weekly referral meetings with team members to determine eligible clients that meets staffing and living conditions as client's may require for admission.
• Ensuring the ISP/BSPs of assigned clients are implemented.
• Notifying appropriate management and regulatory agencies of incidents within the required timeframes as determined by regulatory agencies and/or Damar policies.
• Reviews and processes clients monthly expenses and handles budgeting for clients with budgeting goals.
• Monitoring client's financing and ensuring expenses and bills are paid for in timely manner,as required.
• Conducts Bi - weekly assessments to ensure client and family satisfaction.
• Audits client files on a monthly basis.
• Monitoring independent contractor hours to ensure service match the family's needs and do not exceed the NOA approved hours with use of approved software.(Therap)
• Reviewing contractors invoices and processing of payments as at when due.
• Evaluating contracted services to ensure independent contractor is fulfilling contract terms and complying with regulatory guidelines.
• Effectively responding to, monitoring and managing client crisis situations.
• Manages staff, reviews and approves staff time sheets.
• Meets with different teams to deliver reports and discuss ongoing happenings with and about clients
• Files BDDS report concerning client as required when reportable incidents occur.
• Updates client records on the BDDS portal and all approved portals as required.
• Attends meetings with client, client’s family with other team members as may be required with clients case managers (quarterly, annually and as may be needed according to clients plan)
• Handles assigned staff performance assessments.
• Participation in activities that promotes the development of appropriate daily living, self help and social skills of clients served.
• Assisting staff and clients in maintaining a safe, healthy and conducive clean environment as needed.
• Ensuring regulatory guidelines are being complied with.
• Facilitates staff meetings for homes managed to convey policy changes and hear employee input.
• Monitors and evaluates performance of staff.
• Monitors and approves staff time sheet every week using Paylocity Software.
• Ensures staff training and certifications are up to date and adhered to.
• Interviews and train staff on client specific trainings to ensure all government guidelines will be met ,client’s rights will be protected and staff is well acquainted with clients medical plan,behavioral plan, allergies and every information as may beneficial to clients safety.

• Facilitates and supervise parent and child family visitation in the community and in designated areas of the office.
• Provides transportation for clients to and fro family visits when authorized.
• Provides parenting education such as nurturing parenting,coping skills, removing and replacing of habits.
• Provides home based case work e.g connecting clients to community help,helping in restoring and obtaining driver's license,assisting in housing etc.
• Provides father's engagement services such as training fathers on responsibility taking as a father, importance of bonding with the child, helping with job search, housing,food stamps and food pantries as ordered by DCS.

• Responsible for performing para- professional related to the care and supervision of young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities served with accordance with strategic plans and requirements by licensure.
• Responsible for client's supervision and monitoring according to individualized client's support plan.
• Effectively responds to and manages crisis situations.
• Assists in teaching clients to acquire basic behavioral,communication,social functioning self help daily living and social skills.
• Implements behavior management plans to reduce client's maladaptive behaviors and maximize human potential of each client served.
• Ensures quality improvement,evaluation and reporting requirements are met.
• utilizes data collection in relation to driving and tracking outcomes and achieving initiatives and goals.
• Completes mandatory training and other licensure related items in a timely manner.
• Ensures that all activities,services and programs are conducted in a manner that is sensitive to and shows respect for the cultural and ethnic diversity for all clients served.

• Assesses allegation of abuse,neglect and refer clients to appropriate services.
• Documentation which includes preparing court reports and social histories.
• Collaboration with law enforcement,schools,medical personnel,orphanages,mental health agencies,the court and children/family providers.
• Working with families in mitigating risks and enhancing safety.
• Resolving of spouse(s),parent/child conflict.
• Emancipation planning/facilitating of adoptions.
• Protect women and children from abuse and neglect.
• Maintain and unify families whenever possible.
• Locate a permanent home/orphanage/independent living when needed for children and women unable to reconcile with spouse/families.