CF Care Coordinator

The Care Coordinatorpartners with a Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to support families served by Child First. The Care Coordinator works collaboratively with the family to connect the child and family with desired community-based services and support while maintaining Child Firsts reflective relationship-based stance. The Care Coordinator also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotions reflecting on progress) and engages the caregiver-child dyad in activities to strengthen the relationship. Through their work with families the Care Coordinator both decreases the toxic stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for optimal child development thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children. The best candidate for this position is highly organized self-motivated reliable and flexible (including willingness to work non-traditional hours including at least one evening) with an openness to learning capacity for self-reflection eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision and desire to be part of a team.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
• Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e. use data from interviews observations interactions and standardized measures to identify family strengths needs and challenges).
• Promote family stabilization by working collaboratively with family to identify and support needs (both urgent and long-term) integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care and addressing barriers to services as they arise.
• Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotions reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with Clinician and Clinical Supervisor
• Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with the caregiver to understand their motivation needs and possible barriers to new services and supports.
• Use videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
• Provide the family with interactive growth-promoting play experiences.
• Engage in weekly individual team and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
• Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative including in-person or live-remote training distance learning curriculum and specialty training.
• Track completion of all assessments and enter in the appropriate database.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement.
• Maintain schedule and complete tasks to achieve home visiting Benchmarks and meet Accreditation standards.
• Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• Bachelors degree in child development psychology nursing human services or related field
• A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under theage of six years preferred.
• Knowledge of early childhood development parent education parent-child relationships and individual family and community-level risk factors (e.g. poverty homelessness domestic violence teen parenthood) preferred.

• Knowledge of or experience working with adults who have experienced trauma mental health challenges and/or substance use disorders preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience with community-based services and support in service area highly valued.

• Experience working in home and community-based settings with populations of diverse cultures and ethnicities preferred.
• Able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel.

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION:

Valid drivers license reliable transportation and valid auto insurance.