Credentialing Specialist

Job Title

 Credentialing Specialist

Pay & Benefits

• Compensation: $20-$24 Hourly
• 401(k) & 401(k) matching
• Health, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, & Life Insurance Options
• Paid Time Off

Job Summary

The Children’s Home Network (CHN) provides a broad range of child and family serving programs, including residential, foster care, kinship care, behavioral health, early childhood education, and family support services. Its work is supported by a broad range of public and private funders and regulated by several licensing, credentialing, and accrediting bodies, including the Florida Department of Children and Families, the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration, the Council on Accreditation, local taxation districts, and federally supported funding programs such as Medicaid.

The Credentialing Specialist works within the CHN Human Resources Department to ensure CHN’s personnel remain current and compliant with all credentialing requirements for their scope of work and practice. This individual exercises primary responsibility for completing and maintaining all applicant and employee background screening and credentialing.

Essential Responsibilities

• Complete all background screening for new hire applicants and current employees and volunteers, including state and federal sex offender registry checks, local law enforcement checks, local civil court record checks, and state child abuse registry checks.

• Complete live scan fingerprinting for new hire applicants and current employees and volunteers in the background screening process.

• Maintain up to date knowledge and proficiency of screening processes and requirements required by the Florida Department of Children and Families and the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration.

• Maintain detailed records and logs of all completed background screening results and monitor and manage deadlines for rescreening at specified intervals.

• Maintain detailed records and logs of employee credentials required for their scope of work and practice, and ensuring timely renewal, including licenses, certifications, provider identification numbers, and provider enrollments.

• Manage staff credentialing, licensing, certification, and provider enrollment through regulatory bodies such as the Agency for Healthcare Administration and the Florida Certification Board.

• Maintain complete and accurate employee records and files documenting compliance with all screening and credentialing requirements.

Mandatory and Preferred Qualifications

• Associate degree required, bachelor’s degree preferred, in a related field.

• At least 2 years of related experience in background screening or the credentialing of behavioral health service providers.

• Experience or knowledge related to programs or services licensed by the Florida Department of Children and Families, or similar bodies, preferred.

• Experience or knowledge related to Medicaid-funded behavioral health services, or other services regulated by the Florida Agency for Healthcare Administration, preferred.

• Experience or knowledge related to programs funded by children’s services councils or local taxation districts preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex processes, detailed requirements, and large transactional volume required.

• Experience with managing data reporting and analysis in Microsoft Excel preferred.

The successful candidate must successfully complete and maintain Level 2 background screening, including state and federal sex offender checks, local civil and law enforcement clearance, and state child abuse registry checks, and must be insurable under CHN’s auto insurance policy standards