Case Coordinator - Child Protection Team (Behavioral Health Clinician)

Scope of Work

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this class.

• Work under supervision and report major activities during scheduled meetings.
• Conduct clinical screenings, interviews, and bio-psychosocial evaluations in agency offices and hospital districts.
• Triage referrals with medical staff and complete intake/referral screens for CPT abuse reports and conducts follow up as required.
• Reports after hours to the main office or to area hospitals to conduct emergency assessments as requested by law enforcement and/or DCF.
• Completes intakes/referrals for assessment or deferment for the Child Protection Team.
• Interview children, family members, and significant others to gather medical and psychosocial information.
• Witness forensic medical examinations and provide emotional support to children during evaluations.
• Cookordinate assessment services with Child Protective Investigators, law enforcement, medical providers, and community agencies.
• Arrange and participate in multidisciplinary staffings and contribute to case recommendations.
• Observe, evaluate, and document participant status, maintaining accurate clinical records manually and electronically.
• Request and track medical records and ensure all report and case closure deadlines are met.
• Prepare timely written assessment reports and risk notifications, including required 24-hour reporting.
• Respond to emergency hospital cases during and after business hours and participate in rotating on call shifts.
• Consult with supervisors on complex cases and follow up on directives.
• Work collaboratively with agency advocates to support families and ensure client needs are addressed.
• Provide depositions and court testimony when required.
• Attend staff meetings, multidisciplinary staffings, trainings, and complete internal quality assurance reviews.
• Document progress notes, track daily activities, and maintain responsiveness to CPI, law enforcement, State Attorney’s Office, and CLS.
• Complete required annual training in child abuse, abandonment, and neglect.

Competencies

• Business Insight: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals. Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Plans and Aligns: Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals. Ensures Accountability: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. Communicates Effectively: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Persuades: Uses compelling arguments to gain the support and commitment of others. Situational Adaptability: Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations.

Special Information

• County Core Values: Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. Customer focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions. Instills trust: Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity. Values differences: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

Physical Demands

Performs sedentary work that involves walking or standing some of the time or sustained keyboard operations.

Unavoidable Hazards (Work Environment)

• Routine and frequent exposure to traffic; moving machinery.

Special Information

• ADA Compliance: Broward County is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion. Broward County is committed to providing equal opportunity and reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities.

County-wide Emergency Responsibilities

During emergency conditions, all County employees are automatically considered emergency service workers. County employees are subject to being called to work in the event of a disaster, such as a hurricane, or other emergency situation and are expected to perform emergency service duties, as assigned.

County-wide Employee Responsibilities

• All Broward County employees must serve the public and fellow employees with honesty and integrity in full accord with the letter and spirit of Broward County's Employee Code of Ethics, gift, and conflict of interest policies.
• All Broward County employees must establish and maintain effective working relationships with the general public, co-workers, elected and appointed officials and members of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, political affiliation, familial status, sexual orientation, pregnancy, or gender identity and expression.

Benefits

• Eleven (11) paid holidays each year
• Vacation (Paid Time Off) = 2 weeks per year
• Tuition Reimbursement (Up to 2K annually)
• Up to 40 hours of Job Basis Leave for eligible positions
• Paid Parental Leave
• Health Benefits
• High-Deductible Health Plan – bi-weekly premiums: Employee $10.90 / Family $80.79
• Includes a County Funded Health Savings Account of up to $2,000 Annually
• Consumer Driven Health Plan – bi-weekly premiums: Employee $82.58 / Family $286.79
• Florida Retirement System (FRS) – Pension or Investment Plan 457 Deferred Compensation
• County matches up to $2,000 a year
• General Description

Pay

• Bi-weekly premiums: Employee $10.90 / Family $80.79
• Bi-weekly premiums: Employee $82.58 / Family $286.79

Schedule

• Rotating on-call shifts