BBHE Care Coordinator-NCFIE

Ncfie; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 44,730 - 54,670; Full time

Job summary

A youth services organization in the United States is looking for a career coordinator to facilitate family conferences and coordinate services for youth and young adults in foster care. The candidate will engage with families and community resources, ensuring adherence to federal and state regulations. Requirements include a high school diploma with four years of social work experience, and a preferred bachelor's degree. The role demands strong facilitation, planning, and relationship-building skills.

Qualifications

• Four or more years of full-time social work or human services experience.
• Two years of full-time social work or human services experience with an associate degree or 60+ college credits.
• Child Welfare Case Manager Certification within 12 months of training.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate family conferences for youth and families involved in foster care.
• Ensure delivery of services and coordinate financial planning.
• Maintain relationships with family members and community partners.

Skills

Facilitation

Customer Service

Development of Relationships

Planning

Innovation

Sensitivity

Ethics

Influence

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree or 60+ college credits

Bachelor’s degree (preferred)

Job description

Salary: $49,700/year

Position Summary

Career coordinators facilitate family conferences and coordinate services for youth and young adults in or previously in foster care. They engage families, family managers, providers, and identified resources to promote child and family well‑being and to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local policies and regulations, including the Connecticut General Statutes governing program participation. The position is a 2‑year Federal grant funded role focused on coordinating care and supporting multi‑agency collaboration across the youth services department.

Technical / Functional Expectations

• Family Team Conferences – Essential Function: Facilitate family conferences to achieve common outcomes coupled with family planning and specific client case plans, ensuring continuity of care and compliance with federal and state statutes and policies.
• Service & Treatment Delivery – Essential Function: Ensure the delivery and treatment of services, plan financial aspects, apply for resources, and prepare care plans substantiating funding requests.
• Utilization Management – Essential Function: Authorize and monitor services and resources, including funding requests, to meet sibling, family, and community needs.
• Relationship Maintenance – Essential Function: Foster and maintain ongoing relationships with family members, family managers, community partners, and identified resources, ensuring continuity of care and patient outcomes.
• Adherence to SOC Values & Principles – Essential Function: Adhere to one or more organizational SOC values and principles, demonstrating professional ethics, integrity, and reliability.
• Planning / Scheduling / Meeting Multiple Deadlines: Plan and schedule competing priorities, align resources, insert workforce capacities, allocate skill sets, and coordinate tasks to achieve the goals of the team.
• Other Duties as Required: Perform additional duties, including providing assistance to staff and client planning, supervising most daily quality fulfillment standards.

Behavioral Competencies

• Innovation: Able to generate new and effective solutions, articulate and embrace innovation; discuss experience and system prerequisites.
• Facilitation: Able to facilitate a leading advocate role within a foster care non‑profit organization, combining perspective and action to achieve desired systems.
• Development of Relationships: Able to develop and maintain partnerships with family members, staff, and community partners to strengthen engagement and values.
• Customer Service: Able to support clients and customers.
• Influence: Able to positively change opinions and actions.
• Planning: Provide strategic, approaches, resources, and data how determine; position: problem solving.
• Sensitivity: Sensitivity to cultural nuances, domestic privilege, systemic variances and understanding of community culture.
• Ethics: Adhering to values of agency, system of care foundation, and articulate the practice of internal standards.

Experience Requirements

• High school diploma or GED (official transcripts required) AND four or more years of full‑time social work or human services experience.
• Associate Degree Requirement: Associate degree from an accredited college or 60+ college credits from an accredited college AND two years of full‑time social work or human services experience or two years of professional work experience. Associated examples:
• Guardian Ad Litem or similar child advocate role
• Family Support Worker
• Group Home Staff
• Teacher’s assistant/aide
• Childcare provider/staff
• Therapeutic Assistant
• Behavioral health technician
• Family intervention specialist
• Home health aide
• Nurse (LPN or RN) or similar profession
• Nursing facility assistance
• Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
• Other professional jobs that require an assessment of factors that can contribute to trauma or protective capacities with children and families.
• Bachelor’s Degree Requirement: Bachelor’s degree preferred. Related degrees include Criminology, Psychology, Sociology, Counseling, Special Education, Education, Human Development, Child Development, Family Development, Marriage and Family Therapy.
• 1–2 Years Related Experience Required.
• 2–5 Years Wrap‑Around Experience Required.
• Must obtain a Child Welfare Case Manager Certification within 12 months of completion of paid pre‑service training.

Family Partnerships of Central Florida is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C. Hernandez at (321) 752‑4650.