Description

The primary purpose of this position is to oversee the provision of Family Foster Care & Therapeutic Foster Care Level I & II services to consumers. The clinical supervision and training of Level I & II providers, monitoring for appropriate service delivery, ensuring outcome-based services, and monitoring for compliance with service requirements. This process is facilitated by using the System of Care approach for consumers up to age 21. Servicing care may combine the duties of the social worker or case coordination and licensing social worker.

Requirements

Responsibilities & Duties: 

•  Monitor for quality service delivery that is in-line with best practices for delivery of services to child populations while providing consumer choice.
• Provide case management to ensure proper assessments are conducted for each consumer and that the consumer is at the proper level of care due to assessments and behaviors,
• Monitor the mental and physical health needs of the clients and report any report concerns to supervisor.
• Assure all required Medicaid record rules and deadlines are met (i.e. application for services, service notes, service plans, consents, diagnostic assessments, discharge summaries and all items associated with continuity of care).
• Approve services and coordinate these approved services with all treatment team members (i.e. consumer, family, DSS, DJJ, school systems and other health care professionals).
• Conduct and attend child family teams. Cooperatively service, deliver, and develop individual goal plan and interventions.
• Assure all service plan requirements are met.
• Complete and update PCP’s as needed with a minimum of yearly updates;
• Complete SAR requests for level I & II therapeutic consumer authorizations by submitting through Alpha System),
• Maintain 100% Authorizations with no gaps in service for all Level I and II therapeutic Consumers.
• Provide 24 hour on call support for crisis for case manager’s case load, monitoring, and recruitment, participate in staffing both clinical and administrative and provide training to therapeutic families.
• Remain current on all required trainings (CPR, seizure management, first aid, NCI, best practices, medication administration, etc. as required by state rules).
• This position will be expected to meet with their direct supervisor at least one time a month for supervision.
• Responsible for the clinical supervision and credentialing of all foster parents.
• Provide 60 minutes of supervision that can be 60% face to face contact with 40% being telephone contact for and with specified children and families. If two consumers are in the foster home, 60 additional minutes per week is required.
• Ensure Client Rights are being adhered by for all consumers.
• Abide by and implement all the policies, procedures, regulations, and standards that govern the agency.
• Represent CTS Inc. professionally in the community with all other agencies (i.e. schools, court system, mental health, department of social services, etc.)
• Responsible for attending to all the rules and regulations of the agency, state, and federal statues, and attending rules of quality improvement, medical records, finance, etc. of the agency (including delivery of service to consumers under best practice models).

What you get:

Competitive Wages

Paid Holidays

Quarterly Bonus Incentives

Employer Paid Benefit Options