Intensive Foster Care Coordinator

The Intensive Foster Care (IFC) Coordinator is responsible for the development and monitoring of a plan of care that focuses on stabilization of youth enrolled in the Intensive Foster Care Program (IFC). The IFC Coordinator is responsible for completing a comprehensive, strengths-based assessment of the youth, identifying Choices' network service providers or family-based resources, facilitating at least monthly team meetings with the youth, resource parent and identified permanency plan caregivers. The IFC Coordinator is tasked with making regular visits to the resource home to meet with the foster parent, assess the safety of the youth and complete a safety walkthrough of the home environment. The IFC Coordinator will monitor all authorized services, ensuring quality while maintaining fiscal accountability. The IFC Coordinator assures care is delivered in a manner consistent with strength-based, family-centered, and culturally competent values, offers consultation and education to all providers, including the resource parent, regarding the values of the model, monitors progress toward treatment goals, and assures that all necessary data for evaluation is gathered and recorded. The IFC Coordinator will consistently demonstrate the values of the evidence-based practices of Wraparound and Trust-Based Relational Intervention.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensures all elements on the Task Timeline are completed within the associated time parameters.
• Communicates with the Intensive Foster Care (IFC) Family to discuss the potential placement of a youth, working in conjunction with the referring agency and Choices licensing. Provides all available information regarding the youth to the IFC Family for consideration.
• If a youth is stepping down from a congregate care setting, the IFC Coordinator will coordinate team meetings to ensure a smooth transition to the IFC home with a robust Plan of Care in place at the time of discharge from the facility.
• Manages his / her caseload within the financial parameters of the case rate or other established financial protocol.
• Utilizes referral information, CANS assessment and other data to complete a strengths-based assessment for use by the child and family team to collaboratively develop a Plan of Care with clearly defined goals.
• Works closely with the IFC Family or identified permanency caregiver to ensure needs are met to maintain placement and stability.
• Serves as a liaison with all team members, discussing any issues pertaining to the IFC youth including with Intensive Foster Parent(s), the youth themselves, school personnel, biological parents, placing agency and other appropriate parties involved with the youth according to state regulations and Choices' policy.
• Attends hearings and case conferences for all youth assigned to caseload. Assists with enrolling youth in school and attends Individualized Education Plan (IEP) and 504 meetings.
• Assures the health care needs of youth are being met including medical, dental, mental health, and any specialized needs. All must be completed timely and documented pursuant to DCS policy and Indiana Code.
• Participates in an on-call rotation as designed by Choices management staff. This may include responding in person to the IFC home if a youth is experiencing a crisis.
• Ensure youth safety and stability by responding promptly in a crisis as defined by the youth and family.
• Ensure youth have a safe environment by conducting safety walk throughs in a cadence defined by the task timeline.
• Attends staff meetings as required by Choices management, including regular supervision meetings.
• Willingly completes other duties as assigned to advance the mission of Choices.

Qualifications

Demonstrated ability to :

Salary $45,000 annually

Benefits Include : Medical / Dental / Vision / Life / Disability, 401k Match, Tuition Reimbursement, and a generous PTO plan.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Salary : $45,000