Annual Salary: $56,000/year

POSITION OBJECTIVE:   The Intake and Placement Behavioral Health Coordinator is responsible for all new intakes in the tri-county area and securing licensed out of home care placement. This position ensures compliance with applicable federal, state and contractual requirements. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Point of contact for all new intakes in the tri-county area.
• Identifies appropriate placements.
• Serves as centralized point of access for the agency fielding calls and providing information pertaining to licensed out of home care placement.
• Collects and maintains demographic data on referrals and active children being served.
• Tracks daily placement movement including various levels of care and funding requirements.
• Establishes and maintains positive working relationships with relevant community agencies and partnerships.
• Ensures children with potential disruptions have received progressive interaction to stabilize placements.
• Strong customer service orientation at the point of entry.
• Facilitates the placement assessment tool MDT with DCF.
• Monitors activities to meet specific measureable service objectives to assure compliance with statewide operation goals.
• Participates in the agency strategic plan and quality improvement processes
• Ability to safely and successfully perform essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA, and other federal, state, and local standards, including meeting qualitative and quantitative productivity standards.
• Ability to maintain reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards
• Ability to comply with all personnel policies and procedures

• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university and 5 years’ experience in child welfare services (providing directly a continuum of services designed to ensure that children are safe and that families have the necessary support to care for their children successfully.)
• Extensive knowledge of child welfare operations and mental health services.

• Master's Degree from an accredited college or university
• Licensed Clinician (LMHC, LCSW, LMFT)
• Experience in implementing Quality Assurance and Improvement processes.
• Experience in Data Analysis

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to define problems, collect, evaluate and analyze data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to document workflow and other activities relating to the improvement of operational and management practices.
• Ability to analyze, integrate and report data
• Demonstrate cultural and linguistic competence & sensitivity to population served

• Thorough Background Screening upon hire including FBI, FDLE, Local Law check, Employment Reference check, DMV check, Criminal Records check, Social Security Trace & Drug Screening.  FDLE check will be run at least every 5 years.
• On-call assignments- Yes
• Travel- local: 10% per week, long-distance: 1% per month
• Attend at least 15 hours of in-service training annually