Job Details
Job Location
Family Support Services of Suncoast - Largo, FL
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
4 Year Degree
Description
Family Preservation IPT Facilitation Coordinator
Join our team at FSS and enjoy comprehensive benefits including but not limited to:

• Tuition Reimbursement: Earn up to $5,250 per qualifying year to invest in your education.
• Health Insurance: Choose from three comprehensive Florida Blue health insurance plans to keep you and your family covered.
• Dental Plan: Enjoy an employer-paid dental plan for our valued employees.
• Life Insurance: Your peace of mind matters to us. We provide employer-paid life insurance.
• Well-Being Program: Stay healthy and engaged with our highly interactive well-being program.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Relax and recharge with our generous PTO plan. You can even earn three additional days per plan year!
• Bereavement Leave: We offer 3 paid days of bereavement leave annually to ease the burden during a family member's passing.
• Paid Holidays: Enjoy the 12 holidays without the worry of receiving a paycheck (to include 1 floating holiday) and unwind with family and friends to celebrate and rejuvenate!
• 401k Plan with Matching: Secure your financial future with our 401k plan and employer matching.
• Additional Benefits: Explore our range of benefits, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Vision Plan, Short & Long-Term Disability coverage, Employee Discounts, and more.

The mission of Family Support Services is to be the leader in providing safety, stability, and quality of life for all children by working with the community to strengthen the family unit.
Job Summary:
Facilitate, monitor, document, and track the Integrated Practice Team (IPT) Process. Will facilitate the group to brainstorm ideas that can assist a family with positive change while addressing conflict and accurately route cases to the proper community resource. Utilize a family-centered and strength-based team approach with community involvement in the protection of children. Serve as a consultant to CPI's and CMO case managers and coordinate special case staffings. Network with various community agencies and resources. Responsible for ensuring cross-system integration and interdisciplinary support. Participate with Family Preservation (FPT) Team process to review referrals by a mental health provider for wraparound intervention services. Assist team with referral processing and auditing for all programs within Family Preservation.
Essential Duties:

• Lead the Integrated Practice Team (IPT) by facilitating a core group of representatives from differing organizations whose purpose is to arrange wrap around and strength based services to allow children to remain safely in their homes 45%.
• Maintain IPT records on the incoming correspondence, action documents, schedule, and follows up on each case to ensure timely reply or action. Maintain files and records of correspondence and enters all IPT notes and action plans into FSFN 25%.
• Attend Family Preservation Team (FPT) referral review meetings with IPT partnering agencies. Network with various community agencies and resources to support the IPT and Family Preservation Department 15%.
• Assist with processing referrals for other Family Preservation program, such as FAST, STEPS, Safety Management, and High-Risk Newborn 10%.
• Perform audits of Family Preservation Programs 5%.
• Participate in special projects and other departmental requirements, ongoing.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
Education:Bachelor's Degree required. Certification in Facilitation/ Mediation or Master's degree preferred.
Experience: Three years of experience working with at-risk children and/or families. Experience in Facilitation/Mediation preferred.
Licensure, Certification, and/or Registration: Valid drivers license.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The qualifications listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Ability to:

• Work collaboratively with community members, peers and supervisors.
• Maintain high organizational, leadership and communication skills.
• Be detail-oriented.
• Utilize networking skills.
• Interpersonal skills of communication, facilitation, collaborative problem solving and planning, consensus building, and conflict resolution.
• Communicate and express ideas effectively with staff and clients.
• Write reports and correspondence.
• Speak effectively before small and large groups.
• Solve problems and deal with a variety of variables while working collaboratively to develop family intervention plans.
• Think critically and see future consequences of decisions.
• Assess psycho-social behavior and psychological aspects of children and families.
• Comprehend, collect and analyze data before and during facilitation regarding child safety factors and recognizing risk to children

Knowledge of:

• Florida Statutes pertaining to Child Welfare.
• Family and group dynamics with a range of intervention techniques.
• Best Practices as it relates to Family Preservation and Facilitation.
• Social Worker principles, techniques, and practices and their application to complex case work, group work, and community problems.
• Laws, regulations, and policies which govern all Child Welfare programs.
• Child Protection and child development issues.
• New and existing community resources and social service multi-disciplinary providers in Pasco and Pinellas counties and surrounding areas.

Other Requirements:

• Clear a Level II background screening.
• Clear a reference check
• Clear a local background check from the county in which you reside.
• Clear a substance abuse screen.
• Provide a copy of all degrees prior to your first day of employment.
• Clear a Motor Vehicles Records check.
• Provide proof of and maintain a minimum personal auto liability insurance level $100,000/$300,000 if deemed to be a driving risk.
• Provide a copy of all certifications and degrees prior to your first day of employment.
• Clear an E-Verify check to substantiate that the successful candidate meets the Department of Homeland Security authorization requirements to work in the United States (for more informationvisit www.dhs.gov/e-verify).

Family Support Services team members follow 5 core values:
Partnership :At FSS, a belief that we are better together is core to who we are. Partnership is an essential component of a healthy system of care. Our team is committed to a respectful, open-minded, collaborative approach to co-creating solutions with the community. This extends to the children and families we serve as well.
Excellence :FSS challenges ourselves to always strive for better on behalf of those we serve. We foster innovative practices, encourage continuous quality improvement, and engage in strategic planning with our partners to achieve the highest possible outcomes for children, families, and the community.
Accountability : FSS recognizes our leadership role within the system of care and strives to be accountable to the community by being trustworthy partners. FSS is committed to ethical and transparent practices, and to operate with integrity as we pursue positive outcomes.
Compassion :We recognize that we often meet families at their most challenging moment and people are more than the sum of their circumstances. We provide trauma-sensitive care for the children and families in our system to reach their full potential. We embrace a service leadership approach and commit to finding the strengths in everyone we encounter while we foster resiliency.
Equity :Equity goes beyond the fair treatment of all people. For FSS, equity is the commitment to recognize the social justice issues intrinsic to our work with marginalized communities. We strive to amplify the voices of individuals and families impacted by poverty, racism, and discrimination in any form. We obligate ourselves to a belief that none of these factors should be a predictor of child welfare involvement or outcomes.
FSS is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. FSS is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require a reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to Human Resources at c6.hr@fssnf.org