Wraparound | Child & Family Specialist

MISSION: For more than 30 years, Drew CDC has been instrumental in making a difference in the South Los Angeles Community to prepare the children of Watts-Willowbrook, Compton and South Los Angeles to succeed and thereby strengthen our community’s future. We’ve dedicated our mission to providing groundbreaking, innovative, high quality programs that are outcome driven and best practices supported. Our values of accountability, integrity, and respect govern our decision making and ensure that everything we do strives to promote the health and well-being of those whom we serve.

JOB PURPOSE: Under the supervision of the Wraparound Clinical Supervisor, The Child and Family Specialist (CFS) has primary responsibility for working directly with children in their home or out-of-home placement, and school environment. The Child and Family Specialist works with children and their families to provide a large variety of rehabilitation services ranging from behavior management, behavior modification, transportation, linkage to respite care, school aid, crisis intervention, self-help skill building, vocational training, and other services as needed to provide “whatever it takes” to make a successful and permanent placement for the child.

SUPERVISES: N/A: No supervisory responsibilities

CONTACTS AND RELATIONSHIPS: Expected to maintain internal and external relationships with contract stakeholders and community partners, as defined by program and contract expectations.

BUDGET RESPONSIBILITY: N/A – not applicable to role

MINIMUM REQUIREMENT:

• Bachelor’s Degree in the areas of Social Work and or Psychology.
• Must hold a valid CA driver’s license, registration, and insurance.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Manage a caseload of 10 to 12 families.
• Provide mental health/behavioral rehabilitative services to clients and/or their families, which includes building client and parent capacity and skills which can include but is not limited to assisting in restoring or maintaining clients’ and families’ functional skills, daily living skills, parenting skills, social skills, and other supportive services.
• Link clients to physical health, mental health, developmental services/regional center linkages, housing, employment, occupational, and other supportive services. Assist clients to enroll in mainstream benefits and obtain identification (i.e. California Driver’s License, Social Security Card).
• Attend and actively participates in Child Family Team Meetings (including charting and completing CFTM Minutes). Attending all related external team meetings i.e. (I.E.P Meeting, Court Hearing’s, Regional Center, etc.)
• Meet required productivity standards set forth in the Fiscal Year Production Days Schedule (indicates all expected monthly and annual productivity expectations)
• Demonstrated adherence to Drew CDC and DMH contractually required note and form submission standards (includes all progress notes submitted in EHR within 8 hours
• Available 24/7 (on rotation schedule) for crisis situations either over phone or in the field, submitting all required documentation related to crisis which includes SIR’s, reporting Suspected Child Abuse
• Apply the Integrated Core Practice principles, which includes community partnership, teamwork, cultural competence, respect, accountability, and continuous quality improvement.
• Consistently attends and collaborates with other Wraparound Team members by attending Child and Family Team Meetings, individual/group supervisions, Wraparound Team Bi-Monthly meetings.
• Decrease any barriers of families accessing MH services, to include providing services in the home, field, school, and/or office.

SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE / CREDENTIALS:

• Preferred: Experience working in DMH community mental health agency
• Preferred: Experience providing mental health and therapeutic interventions
• Preferred: Wraparound experience working in intensive services
• Preferred: Experience in utilizing electronic health record systems (EHR)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
• Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Primarily Field-based services: traveling to Office, Community, Schools, and Client homes to deliver services.

FLSA STATUS (Exempt or Nonexempt): Regular, Full-time, Non-Exempt

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $22.98 - $27.22 per hour

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Language:

• Spanish (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Preferred)

Willingness to travel:

• 50% (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $23 - $27