CHILDREN'S CARE COORDINATOR

Responsibilities

• Provide direct care services to select clients including outreach, assessment, care planning, care coordination, and crisis intervention through monthly face to face visits and delivery of core services based on the child’s needs.
• Address the medical, social, developmental, behavioral, educational and financial needs of children and their families to achieve optimal healthy development for children.
• Facilitate the arrangement of appointments, referral forms, transportations, reminders and follow-up to meet the needs of children and youth while enhancing the family’s caregiving capabilities.
• Help ensure that children are raised in a healthy, safe, and nurturing environment utilizing a strength-based approach.
• Identify ways to strengthen parent-child relationships.
• Collaborate with all providers working with the children to ensure that their needs are being met.
• Conduct the initial CANS-NY assessment and subsequent assessments to drive the plan of care.
• Establish a plan of care and a schedule of contacts with the family based on the child’s individual situation.
• Ensure that all necessary case notes and written reports are completed in a timely, accurate and concise manner in accordance with established policies and procedures and time frames.
• Maintain appropriate documents, records and statistics; write reports, as needed, in an organized, timely and accurate manner.
• Establish and maintain satisfactory relations with HH partners and other community Agency personnel as a cooperative venture on behalf of the clients.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to policy and procedures related to HIPAA, child abuse reporting, OMIG, and all other agency and funding sources.
• Perform other duties as directed and necessary.

Qualifications

• BSW or related Bachelor’s level degree and 3 years’ experience working with children with special needs or MSW or related Master’s level degree and 2 year experience working with children with special needs.
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience working with severely disabled populations.
• Ability to coordinate responsibilities.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills required.
• Working knowledge of computer software and electronic health record systems.
• Demonstrated competency in written, verbal and computational skills to present and document records in accordance with program standards.
• Demonstrated competency in development and implementation of the interdisciplinary planning process.
• Excellent interpersonal skills required.
• The ability and willingness to regularly travel, in some instances with clients in Agency vehicles, to many locations using various modes of reliable and safe transportation.
• If working in Nassau or Suffolk Counties, a valid Tri-state (New York, New Jersey or Connecticut) driver's license is required.

Schedule

Full time, Monday through Friday, including evening hours. Schedule will vary depending on the families’ needs.

Pay

$22.00-25.00