Post Adoption Care Coordinator - Orange and Osceola Counties

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $52,000/year

Position Summary: The Post Adoption Care Coordinator is responsible for demonstrating strong communication and fostering positive relationships between Prevention/Diversion staff, Department of Children and Families, Post Adoptive Families and FPOCF. In this role, the liaison connects youth and families to essential community resources and facilitates family team conferences to ensure coordinated support. This position will act as the primary point of contact for post-adoption families in need of care coordination. This position will work to meet the needs of families, which may include evenings/weekends. The care coordinator will actively participate in, and facilitate, as needed, Local Review Teams and other applicable staffing/meetings. They will document activities and actions in Florida Safe Families Network (FSFN). Additionally, they will maintain post adoption data for reporting purposes, to identify gaps in services, for resource allocation, and for forecasting needs.

Technical/Functional Expectations:

1. 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.
2. Care Planning Resources - Essential Function: Access 3rd party, Medicaid and community resources and ensures inclusion in care planning to maximize resources.
3. Crisis Interventions - Essential Function: Provide crisis intervention linkages, referrals through consultation to ensure family support and stabilization to follow-up with emergency family team conferences for continued authorization. Ensures interim safety plan and follow up development to protect clients and agency's best interests.
4. Facilitate FTC's - Essential Function: This is strongly recommended to effectively bring a diverse team of professionals, family and community resources together to provide support to the family in order 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.
5. 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.

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Facilitation: Able to use judgment and provide a process to ease group resolution of issues; clarify points of view and terminology to gain group acceptance; facilitate the actions, decisions, or opinions of others in a positive direction.
2. Develop Relationships: Able to relate with others while building credibility and rapport; give personal support and reassurance; put others at ease; build cooperative relationships.
3. Responsiveness: Able to take action to meet the needs of others; respond to solve problems; minimize delays or problems with little or no supervision.
4. Verbal Communication: Able to clearly express ideas, information, or concerns with the spoken word; present verbal information in a straightforward manner; ask questions in order to open channels of communication; listen to understand perspective of others.
5. Problem Solving: Able to exercise judgment in building realistic solutions to problems; understand the real issues behind problems; use common sense and take practical action to solve problems.
6. Integrity: Able to demonstrate consistency of words and actions; protect confidential information; do what is right even when no one is watching; demonstrate sound business ethics; consistently comply with organizational values.
7. Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic backgrounds of others
8. Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength-based, solution-focused, maintains highest level of integrity and ethical standards and work collaboratively with employees, partners, stakeholders and clients in all interactions.

Business Experience:

1. Valid Driver's License - Essential: This position also requires a valid Florida driver’s license in order to travel throughout the County.
2. Computer skills (Microsoft and Web based application): This position uses Microsoft and a web-based application for daily entry of case activity and the utilization management of service authorizations.
3. 2+ years of Team Facilitation Skills with At Risk Families: This position works collaboratively with both informal and formal professional supports and must demonstrate the ability to effectively partner with collaterals and service providers.
4. Min 2 years knowledge Child Welfare Experience: This position requires at least 1 year of experience working in Child Welfare.

Educational and Experience Requirements:

1. Master’s degree in human services related field required.
2. 2 to 5 years related experience required.
3. 5 to 8 years related experience preferred.

Physical Requirements:

1. Lifting 10 pounds
2. Carrying 10 pounds
3. Reaching
4. Sitting
5. Standing
6. Reading
7. Listening
8. Typing
9. Writing
10. Speaking

Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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.