Scioto County Community Coordinator

The Treatment Coordinator will work in collaboration with child welfare leadership, community partners, and stakeholders to plan, implement, market, manage, and evaluate the local Safe Babies Team™ (SBT). In an effort to affect community and system’s change, the Treatment Coordinator is responsible for supporting families in the casework process to help promote the safety, permanency and well-being of children and families in the child welfare system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Engages families early in the SBT process and ensures that their input is valued throughout their involvement in the program
• Supports the information sharing, collaboration, and documentation within family team meetings (multidisciplinary teams that meet bi-monthly around each SB involved family to assist children and their families in developing strategies to mitigate the circumstances that brought them to the program’s attention)
• Seeks creative solutions that address barriers families face in accessing formal and informal supports to complement case management services
• Participates in monthly family team meetings for each SB-involved family
• Works alongside the family is assessing their needs and strengths
• Utilize the social determinates of health model in working with SB families to help identify factors impacting the family’s health and wellbeing
• Works alongside the family and family team in developing a family-centered plan for the goals they want to accomplish in the SB program
• Facilitates referral and connection for each family to needed services and supports. Working jointly with the family’s CPS caseworker, behavioral health and substance abuse providers to ensure seamless and efficient delivery of needed services
• Provides education to SB families on child welfare and social service system processes and what to expect throughout their involvement with SB
• Assists families with identifying and accessing natural support systems in their community
• Models practice that enhances a highlighted focus on the unique developmental needs of infants and toddlers and their families
• Networks and communicates with SB Coordinators in other communities and states
• Participates as an active member of both the Community Team and Leadership Team to ensure smooth alignment of direct, day-to-day work with families in SB and the community level, broader systems – enhancements that are growing out of the work
• ?Performs other duties as assigned for the purpose of ensuring the efficient and effective functioning of the SBT

Skills and Experience

• Experience with community collaboration to effect systems change
• Background in infant/early childhood development, substance abuse treatment, mental health treatment or related field
• Ability to work and make decisions independently
• Knowledge of issues related to child abuse and neglect
• Working knowledge of racial equity, historical trauma, poverty, intimate partner violence, child and adult development, parental history of childhood trauma, mental illness, substance use disorders, and developmental and intellectual disabilities
• Knowledge of the Social Determinants of Health and local resources available to assist families in making connections to achieve them
• Ability to work collaboratively with a multidisciplinary group
• Working knowledge of early child development and infant mental health
• Knowledge of Protective Factors and how to incorporate them in community capacity building and case planning
• History of working with people of diverse educational, professional, socioeconomic, and ethnic backgrounds
• ?Minimum 3 years of professional experience focused on services for vulnerable young children and their families

Preferred

• In-depth knowledge of infant/toddler social-emotional development and the impact of abuse and neglect
• Working knowledge of local, state, and federal child welfare policies, practices, and laws
• ?Skills in collecting and interpreting data

Essential Qualities

• Encourages and practices critical thinking
• Is self-reflective and empathic
• Is committed to remaining current on research and best practice standards
• Maintains a respectful and accepting approach to others
• ?Collaboratively and creatively supports the work efforts of families and colleagues at all levels

Minimum Qualifications

• Clear FBI and BCI Background Check
• Physical ability to perform all the essential functions of the job

Education

• Bachelor degree preferred, though experience in substance use, mental health, child welfare, or early childhood education will also be considered.