Coordinator of Community Services
Coordinator of Community Services
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Job Description
This is a teleworking position with the expectation that you will be visiting clients in the Baltimore City/County region.
Who We Are
The Coordinating Center (The Center) has over 40 years of experience supporting children youth adults and seniors with complex medical needs and disabilities statewide. Deeply committed to a personcentered approach and philosophy The Coordinating Center helps individuals of all ages and abilities achieve optimal quality health affordable healthcare and meaningful community life. Over the past four decades we have become an industry expert in the delivery of personcentered communitybased care coordination services and population health.
Who You Are:
We look for candidates who align with our mission vision and values as a human services nonprofit organization. We look for collaborative and creative minds selfmanaging organizational skills and the desire to challenge and grow professionally. Specific qualifications are:
- Bachelors degree in a human service focus or an Associates degree in a human service focus and two years of human service experience or seven years of specific human service work experience required.
- Experience in coordinating services for individuals in Medicaid or waiver programs or coordination services for individuals with Intellectual or Developmental disabilities is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrates competencybased skills and working knowledge in the following areas:
- Negotiation and conflict management and crisis management
- Effective advocacy skills and problem solving
- Proven ability to establish and maintain working relationships
- Person and familycentered care
- Selfdetermination planning
- Community resources and service delivery systems (i.e. generic local State and federal programs Medicaid mental health substance abuse social services juvenile justice vocational rehabilitation and corrections)
- COMAR Regulations governing services for individuals with Intellectual/ Developmental disabilities.
- Strong belief in the opportunities for people with disabilities to fully participate in the community and a willingness to work toward individuals identified goals.
- Must have access to a reliable automobile and a valid drivers license.
- Excellent communication skillswriting and speaking.
- Computer skills including Word Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to manage complicated work processes and multitask.
What You Will Do:
The Coordinator of Community Services (CCS) is responsible for targeted case management services for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. The CCS helps in locating and accessing the full range of medical assistance services community services (i.e. social habilitative vocational recreational housing financial legal educational) and other support services. The CCS supports the mission of The Coordinating Center by providing person and familycentered service coordination within the parameters of the CCS contract.
As a CCS You Will:
- Maintain a gradually developed caseload between 3040 clients with intellectual/developmental disabilities.
- Advocate on behalf of clients while supporting selfadvocacy and participation in service planning.
- Assist clients with the development of an appropriate and relevant PersonCentered Plan in accordance with COMAR regulations and agency policies.
- Research access and help implement services and supports in a timely manner ensuring the most integrated settings to meet the clients needs.
- Monitor the provision of services to clients by performing regular information gathering and research relevant to the clients supports and services.
- Visit clients in settings where supports are provided or other locations as desired by the clients at minimum four times during the clients plan year depending on the intensity of coordination needed.
- Assist with all client enrollmentrelated activities to ensure continuity of supports and services.
- Facilitate frequent personcentered planning meetings including coordinating quarterly visits annual PCP meetings and interdisciplinary meetings as needed.
- Conduct required assessments with clients per DDA regulations and program requirements.
- Maximize clients participation in the team process and promote opportunities for those who choose to lead their team meetings; negotiates and resolves disagreements within the interdisciplinary team.
- Annually advises participants of their right to choose from qualified providers of services.
- Responds to providergenerated incident reports in a timely manner to ensure the individuals health and safety are addressed.
- Consistently and accurately document sufficient level of client services to meet agency billing standards within State of Marylands LongTerm Services and Supports (LTSS) system and The Coordinating Centers internal system.
- Attend and actively participate in all external and internal required meetings and trainings.
- Maintain a professional relationship with external service providers to ensure quality coordination of comprehensive care.
Why Join Us
The hourly rate for this position is $27.40$28.36/hour with the opportunity for quarterly success payments and mileage reimbursement.
We are proud to offer a comprehensive and awardwinning benefits package including medical plans FSA/HSA plans dental vision matching 403b and short term/long term disability options. We offer 11 paid holidays a winter break and generous PTO accrual.
We facilitate ongoing conversations about professional development opportunities and invest in our coworkers by providing funds to use for professional development and funds for furthering education. We also encourage collaboration within our different councils and committees to get involved with other coworkers across the organization.
The Coordinating Center is committed to creating workforce where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that is essential to the success of our organization and is reflected in our commitment to fair and equal employment opportunities for all. The Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race creed color religion alienage or national origin ancestry citizenship status age disability or handicap sex marital status veteran status sexual orientation arrest record gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local laws. Our management team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment hiring placement promotion transfer training compensation benefits coworker activities and general treatment during employment. We believe we are stronger together. Its what makes us exceptional in achieving our mission and drives us to deliver culturally competent and effective care coordination services.
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Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Hourly
