Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Coordinator/Special Interest Unit Supervisor Full-time Job
Nov 3rd, 2022 at 13:59 Home Health Care Rockledge 185 views Reference: 1585Job Details
Position Summary: This professional position serves as the centralized point of contact for all Multidisciplinary Staffing’s which include the child, family, natural and community supports, and professionals who collaborate to empower, motivate, and strengthen the family and develop an individualized plan best suited for their needs. This position convenes MDT’s for all youth dually involved with the DCF and DJJ to identify and meet the needs of dually involved youth and family and access the Juvenile Justice Information System (JJIS). This position serves as the Special Interest Unit Supervisor, overseeing dependency cases within the agency. This position will ensure all necessary staffing’s occur within established time frames, include all relevant team members, allows for all members to have voice and input, address child safety, permanency, and well-being. As the Special Interest Unit Supervisor, this position will adhere to the BFP System of Care principles of practice and provides family centered strength- based assessment, planning, linkage, coordination, and advocacy for children and families. The Supervisor works as a team member with key partners including parents, family members, foster parents, caregivers, guardian ad litem, DCF Protective Investigations, CLS attorneys, therapists, providers, and other appropriate professionals.
Technical/Functional Expectations:
- Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) Point of Contact-Essential Function: This position is responsible for bringing together a diverse group of individuals for the purpose of allowing better engagement with families and a share commitment and accountability. This position is responsible for scheduling, coordinating, and facilitating MDTs for all initial placements, changes in physical custody, changes in educational placement, placement decisions involving siblings, and other complex important decisions related to the child. Ensures the MDT conduct an assessment before formulating a decision. In cases where there is not a unanimous consensus the Department will make a best interest determination and report to the court within established time frames.
- Transition Plans: Coordinate, track and ensure completion of transition plans for all: LOHC placements, siblings, education within the required time frames. Ensure that all transition plans are documented and uploaded in FSFN.
- Separated Siblings: Coordinate, schedule and review all separate siblings minimally every quarter to assess for barriers to placement together and ensure sibling visitation is occurring and contact is being maintained in other ways.
- Customer Service: Work with clients and families to trouble shoot and assist with problem solving. To ensure client satisfaction.
- 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.
- Safety: Conduct, Develop, Monitor and Manage family functioning assessments, child safety assessments and required safety plans.
- Permanency: Identify and develop plan to successfully achieve permanency for children placed in out-of-home care.
- Engagement: Adherence to the local SOC values, goals and priorities for Brevard’s children, youth and families; Utilize a family centered strength based approach to care; Monitor quality of care by ensuring face-to-face home visits with children are completed minimally every 30 days, or with increased frequency as determined by case situations and supervisory direction; facilitate, monitor, and assess visitation between children, parents, and siblings to ensure safety and observe interactions.
- Support: Provide support to staff, children, caregivers, and family members to assure stable placement and timely achievement of permanency; Coordinate cases with team members, providers, DCF and attorneys as needed.
- Court Appearance and Preparation: Ensure staff have reviewed case information prior to every hearing to be prepared to answer any questions from the Court regarding the status of the case, services, and progress towards permanency; Dress appropriately for Court appearances and ensure all court hearings are attended timely by self or assigned staff.
- 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.
- Perceptivity: Able to interpret verbal and non-verbal communication; use perceptions to understand and relate to others; perceptively analyze the actions and opinions of others.
- Analyzing: Able to break down problems and information to systematically identify the cause of problems or make recommendations; gather information from multiple sources; analyze complex information; organize information for analysis.
- Analytical Problem Resolution: Able to use systematic techniques to define problems, options, and solutions; evaluate alternative solutions; solve technical or complex problems using logic.
- 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.
- Project Management: Able to control and complete projects on time; involve others in planning; clearly define roles and goals and track performance.
- Verbal Communication: Able to clearly express ideas, information, or concerns with the spoken word; present verbal information in a straightforward manner; ask questions to open channels of communication; listen to understand perspective of others.
- Teamwork: Able to cooperate to build consensus; able to assist others to achieve team goals; participate in meetings so they are productive; take on extra work to meet team objectives.
- Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic backgrounds of others.
- 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.
- Valid Driver's License-Essential: This position requires a valid driver’s license
- 2 years’ experience in child welfare or human svc experience: This position requires at least 2 years of experience in the intake of children in the child welfare system or human services field.
- Computer skills required: This position will be required to work in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
- Excellent Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills: This function requires the ability to independently assess, evaluate, and make recommendations regarding placement and services for children in licensed out of home care.
- Facilitation of meetings-Essential: Experience in coordinating and leading team meetings.
- Strong interpersonal, presentation, and organizational skill: This is required to effectively partner with various stakeholders and agency staff.
- Strength Based Family Practice Orientation: This is required to effectively support the system of care and values.
- Strong communication skills: This is essential to develop written summaries and recommendations for distribution within the system of care.
- Intermediate to advance level skills in MS Office to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, familiarity, and comfort using databases to populate and evaluate data, make case notes, and pull data.
- BA/BS required in human services related field.
- Masters preferred.
- 2 to 5 years related experience in child welfare required.
- Child Protection Certification required
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The Brevard Family Partnership Family of Agencies are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers. 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.
