Child First Care Coordinator

The Care Coordinator partners with a Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to support families served by Child First. The Care Coordinator works collaboratively with the family to connect the child and family with desired, community-based services and support while maintaining Child First’s 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 for optimal child 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 to participate in reflective clinical supervision and desire to be part of a team.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families, including identifying and collaborating with community-based service providers and supports.
• 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 to identify family strengths, needs, and challenges).
• Promote family stabilization by working collaboratively with family to identify and 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 emotions, reflecting on progress) as needed and in consultation with Clinician and Clinical Supervisor
• Maintain a reflective stance when engaging with the caregiver to understand their motivation, needs, and possible barriers to new services and supports.
• Use videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective supervision.
• Provide the family with interactive, growth-promoting play experiences.
• Engage in weekly 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 and enter in the appropriate database.
• Keep all appropriate documentation for 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 as appropriate.
  
  

Qualifications

Qualifications

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in child development, psychology, nursing, human services, or related field
• A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years preferred.
• Knowledge of early childhood development, parent education, parent-child relationships, and individual, family, and community-level risk factors (e.g. poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen parenthood) preferred.
• Knowledge of or experience working with adults who have experienced trauma, mental health challenges, and/or substance use disorders preferred.
• Knowledge of and experience with community-based services and support in service area highly valued.
• Experience working in home and community-based settings with populations of diverse cultures and ethnicities preferred.
• Able to communicate well verbally and in writing.
• Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel.
  
  

Licensure/Certification/Registration

Valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and valid auto insurance.