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BBHE Care Coordinator-NCFIE

Community Based Care of Brevard, Inc.

place Rockledge, 32956

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Marriage and Family Therapy, Nursing, Social Work, Other Behavioral, Mental, or Healthcare Field

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Internship

local_atm $49,000a year

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Salary: $49,000/year

Position Summary: The Care Coordinator is responsible for facilitating the Wraparound process for youth and young adults in or previously in foster care that are eligible to receive services and support through the youth services department. The Care Coordinator coordinates and schedules Family Team Conferences to promote permanency and prioritizes urgent requests. The Care Coordinator maintains information regarding the environment of current services to ensure a flexible, responsive, culturally competent service delivery system. This position is a 2-year Federal grant funded position.

Technical/Functional Expectations:

1. Family Team Conferences - Essential Function: Coordinate and facilitate Family Team Conferences in order to achieve consensus among family and other participants in developing an appropriate plan based on the needs of the families and to ensure compliance with FPOCF procedures, values, and standards.

2. Service and Treatment Delivery - Essential Function: Ensure services and treatment are delivered from a

strength based framework and customized in order to meet individualized needs of consumers and are

culturally competent.

3. Utilization Management-Essential Function: Authorization and monitoring of resources, including agency

and community, to meet client’s needs.

4. Relationship Maintenance-Essential Function: Foster and maintain ongoing relationships with family

members, care managers, providers, and identified resources in order to call on others to implement

client plans.

5. Adhere to SOC Values and Principles-Essential Function: This is required in order to embrace and promulgate the values and principles of the System of Care on a consistent basis with each family and

interaction.

6. Planning/Scheduling/Meeting multiple deadlines: Plan and schedule meetings, conferences, and travel schedules in order to maintain staff schedules.

7. Other duties as required: Job performance requires fulfilling other incidental or related duties as assigned,

assisting and training others, and performing duties of higher rated positions from time to time for

developmental purposes.

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Innovation: Able to generate new or different products, processes, or solutions; create unique solutions to problems; express fresh insights or innovations regularly; think outside of existing paradigms.

2. Facilitation: Able to use judgment and provide a process to ease group resolution of issues; clarify

points of view and terminology to gain group acceptance; facilitate the actions, decisions, or opinions of

others in a positive direction.

3. Develop Relationships: Able to relate with others while building credibility and rapport; give personal

support and reassurance; put others at ease; build cooperative relationships.

4. Customer Service: Able to anticipate and respond to consumer's needs, concerns, or questions in order to

meet or exceed their expectations; help evaluate needs and options; show care and concern to

demonstrate consumer importance and value.

5. Influence: Able to positively change opinions and actions of others in a desired direction; present

information in a persuasive manner; clarify information in order to gain understanding and buy-in.

6. Problem Solving: Able to exercise judgment in building realistic solutions to problems; understand the real

issues behind problems; use common sense and take practical action to solve problems.

7. Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic

backgrounds of others.

8. Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength-based, solution-focused, maintains highest level of integrity and ethical standards and work collaboratively with

employees, partners, stakeholders and clients in all interactions.

Business Experience:

1. Minimum of 2 years knowledge of child welfare systems: This is required in order to understand and successfully function within our system of care and to adhere to Florida statute and code.

2. Strong computer/data entry skills: This experience is required in order to maintain our utilization

management system.

3. 3+ years’ Experience working with families and children: This experience is essential in order to

effectively work with children and families within our system of care.

4. Collaboration, negotiation and problem-solving skills: This experience is essential in order to effectively

facilitate the Wraparound Family Team conferencing process.

5. Valid Driver's License & Appropriate Insurance - Essential: This position requires a valid driver’s license in

order to travel throughout the County and requires $100,000/$300,000 bodily injury insurance coverage

(per FL Statute) in order to transport clients.

Educational and Experience Requirements:

1. A high school diploma or GED equivalent (official transcripts required) AND four or more years of full-time social work or human services experience.

An associate degree from an accredited college or 60+ college credits from an accredited college AND two years of full-time social work or human services experience or two years of professional work experience. Examples of work experience could be, but are not limited to:

Guardian Ad Litem or similar child advocate role
Family Support Worker
Group Home Staff
Teacher’s assistant/aide
Childcare provider/staff
Therapeutic Assistant
Behavioral health technician
Family intervention specialist
Home health aide
Nurse (LPN or RN) or similar profession
Nursing facility assistance
Emergency Medical Services (EMS
Other professional jobs that require an assessment of factors that can contribute to trauma or protective capacities with children and families.

Bachelor’s Degree, Human Services or Social Work preferred. (Related degrees are Criminology, Psychology, Sociology, Counselling, Special Education, Education, Human Development, Child Development, Family Development, Marriage and Family Therapy although other degrees may apply.)
1 to 2 years related experience required.
2 to 5 years Wraparound and related experience required.
You must obtain a Child Welfare Case Manager Certification within 12 months of completion of paid pre-service training.

For more information regarding our screening process please visit Clearinghouse.com .

Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C. Hernandez at (321) 752-4650.