Diversion Care Coordinator

Job Description

Job Description

Starting Salary : $45,000 / year

Position Summary : This position manages all Special Interest Dependency families for Brevard Family Partnership Family of Agencies and dually serves as a Care Coordinator for Non-Judicial In-Home Services. This position coordinates and facilitates Family Team Conferences, completes services authorization, and maintains information regarding the environment of current services to ensure a flexible, responsive, culturally competent service delivery system. This position enters all data in FSFN and / or Mindshare..

Technical / Functional Expectations :

• Attends Court Hearings including Judicial Reviews, Permanency Hearings, Prepares Court reports – Essential Function : This position is responsible for interfacing with Children’s Legal Service and attends court hearings and timely report filing of reports with the Court to update the Judiciary on child and family progress,
• Completes monthly Home Visits- Face to face visits with each child in the homes to assess safety, permanency, and well- being
• Completes Ongoing Family Functional Assessment- Required to assess ongoing family progress and make recommendations toward permanency goal
• Authorization Coordination-Essential Function : This is strongly recommended to ensure timely delivery of appropriate services while managing the budget allocations and identifying alternative community resources as well as other funding streams to maximize resources and adhere to policies and procedures. Responsible for utilization and monitoring flexible funding and service coordination to meet client needs.
• Creates Case Plan and Care Planning Resources : Access 3rd party, Medicaid and community resources and ensures inclusion in care planning to maximize resources.
• Crisis Interventions : Provide crisis intervention linkages, referrals through consultation to ensure family support and stabilization to follow-up with emergency FTC for continued authorization. Ensures interim safety plan and follow up development to protect clients and agency's best interests.
• Facilitate FTC's : This is strongly recommended to effectively bring a diverse team of professionals, family, and community resources together to provide support to the family to develop strategies and identify needs to address their issues. Ability to use judgement and a solution focused style to address differing points of view to achieve consensus within the FTC process. Ensure that the family voice drives the process, and that decisions and actions have support of the group.
• Service Utilization UM / Wrap : Manages the daily service utilization log and submits to Program Manager for necessary authorization to monitor costs and track other sources of services and funding. Coordinates with providers to ensure service delivery in timely manner and to ensure needs are being addressed as detailed in the individualized care plans. in concert with family members and informal and natural supports.
• 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.

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Brevard Family Partnership and Brevard C.A.R.E.S. are 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.

Salary : $45,000