Child First Care Coordinator
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Job Location:
Shreveport, LA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
9 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB SUMMARY:
The Care Coordinator partners with a Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to support families referredtoChild First.The Care Coordinator works collaboratively with the family to connect the child and family with desired community-based services andsupportswhilemaintainingChild Firsts reflective relationship-based stance.The Care Coordinator also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotions reflecting on progress) and engages the caregiver-child dyad in activities to strengthen the relationship.Through their work with families the Care Coordinator both decreases the toxic stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities foroptimalchild development thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children. The best candidate for this position is highly organized self-motivated reliable and flexible (including willingness to work non-traditional hours including at least one evening) with an openness to learning capacity for self-reflection eagerness toparticipatein reflective clinical supervision and desire to be part of a team.
JOB DUTIES/ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Provide community resourceexpertiseto Child First team and families includingidentifyingand collaborating with community-based service providers andsupports.
- Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process (i.e. use data from interviews observations interactions and standardized measures toidentifyfamily strengths needs and challenges).
- Promote family stabilization by working collaboratively with family toidentifyand support needs (both urgent and long-term) integrating service needs into the Child and Family Plan of Care and addressing barriers to services as they arise.
- Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills (e.g. planning organizing managing time focusing attention regulating emotionsreflecting onprogress) as needed and in consultation with the Clinician and Clinical Supervisor.
- Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with the caregiver to understand their motivation needs andpossible barriersto new services andsupports.
- Use videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
- Provide the family with interactive growth-promoting play experiences.
- Engage inweekly individual team and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Supervisor.
- Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative including in-person or live-remote training distance learning curriculum and specialty training.
- Track completion of all assessments andenter intheappropriate database.
- Keep allappropriate documentationfor clinical accountability and reimbursement.
- Maintain schedule and complete tasks to achieve home visiting Benchmarks and meet Accreditation standards.
- Participate in other clinical and administrative activities asappropriate.
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Bachelors degree in child development psychology nursing human services or related field preferred.
- A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years preferred
- Current valid drivers license with acceptable driving record
- Automobile liability insurance that meetsminimumrequirements
Required Experience:
IC
Key Skills
- Senior Care
- Hoyer Lift
- Medical office experience
- Dementia Care
- Home Care
- Nursing
- Alzheimers Care
- Administrative Experience
- Meal Preparation
- Medication Administration
- Memory Care
- Tube Feeding
About Company
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