Position Summary:
The Wraparound Facilitator is the member of the care team that will engage high-need youth and their families in developing, implementing, and monitoring an intensive, individualized care plan. This includes helping the care team develop a natural support system, working on the development of an integrated plan and establishing a strong relationship with the family. This partnership is important as the youth and family work to address challenges and make changes to their lives.
The Wraparound Facilitator helps the family develop a positive view of the future through various activities,
identifying and promoting resources available for the youth and family in their home community while safeguarding the process to ensure that the principles and steps of the Wraparound process are delivered with the highest possible fidelity to the model.
Essential Functions:
- Model and act in accordance with Everstand's core values: safety, empathy, relationships, and impact.
- Honor differences, acknowledge uniqueness, and amplify all voices. Model the use of inclusive language.
- Demonstrate and practice Everstand's leadership mindset, "Choose kindness. Solve problems and learn together. Make it happen."
- Coordinate initial meetings with youth and family, ensuring the completion of intake documentation and necessary assessment tools in the identification of strengths, service needs, and transition plan.
- Facilitate the development of the Wraparound care plan for each youth and family ensuring that the plan demonstrates youth and family voice and includes clear needs statements, strength-based strategies, and outcomes that are measurable and specific.
- Collaborate with Wraparound care team to develop a crisis and safety plan to ensure the safety of the youth, family, and community.
- Coordinate and facilitate ongoing child and family team meetings.
- Meet agency productivity and documentation expectations with regards to weekly meaningful contact with youth and families.
- Meet face-to-face with clients in their home or community for the provision of services.
- Continuously reassess the needs of the youth and family with the care team and modify the care plan as needed, ensuring all members of the Wraparound care team are updated in a timely manner regarding plan modifications.
- Evaluate the youth and family's progress towards goal achievement and keep all parties informed with regards to progress toward achieving care plan goals.
- Motivate and support family involvement through the identification and inclusion of informal supports.
- Facilitates youth and family efforts to obtain any financial assistance or services for which they may be eligible under federal, state, and local regulations.
- Seeks community resources first with the assistance of the team and modifies the care plan whenever services or resources need to be added and/or deleted.
- Maintain effective working relationships with families, children/youth, colleagues, consultants, and community agencies to include scheduling home visits, notifications of serious incidents, follow-up on all ongoing documentation needs.
- Complete required documentation and reports within the defined timelines including case notes, state and agency data collection, financial and programmatic reporting, assessments, care plan documentation, transition/discharge planning and post-discharge follow-up.
- Provides or secures support and crisis/emergency services for the youth and family through face-to-face contact, phone contact or availability by an on-call system.
- Provide 24 hour on call (at home) phone support on a rotational basis.
- Identify supervision and/or professional training needs to supervisor as they arise.
- Demonstrate the ability to effectively express ideas clearly and concisely, orally and in writing.
- Demonstrate the ability to engage youth and families in a positive therapeutic alliance.
Non-Essential
- Assist with transportation needs of youth and family as needed.
- Obtain and maintain certification as a "user" in BCC's electronic health record software system
Supervisory Responsibility:
N/A
Work Environment:
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. In the nature of being at a residential and school living environment there may be times you experience conditions in which challenging behavior can be exhibited from our youth to include but not limited to, physical agitation, physical violence and/or emotion outburst. This position will require that you enter the homes and communities of the youth and families that we serve, you will need to have knowledge of safe home visiting practices.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work:
This is a full-time position. Typical office hours are Monday- Friday 8:30 a.m to 5:00 p.m ., though the schedule requires flexibility based on the availability of youth an