Salary: $57,000/year

Position Summary: 

The Placement Stabilization Clinician is responsible for ensuring the stability of high-acuity children and youth in licensed out-of-home care. This position leads Placement Stabilization staffing’s to address placement crises, potential disruptions, and foster parent support needs. Responsibilities include providing timely intervention—including on-site response when indicated—documenting all actions in FSFN and conducting follow-up to promote ongoing stability and support. The clinician also serves as a Subject Matter Expert in crisis stabilization and as a supportive resource to out-of-home care providers. 

Essential functions of this role include reducing placement disruptions, supporting step-downs of children and youth to less restrictive settings, collecting and analyzing data, and providing clinical recommendations and guidance to Out-of-Home Care Specialists, foster families, group homes, and other specialized providers to ensure appropriate service utilization. 

The Placement Stabilization Clinician works closely with the Behavioral Health Unit to coordinate timely and clinically appropriate mental and behavioral health interventions. This position also tracks and monitors children placed in enhanced or high-acuity settings to ensure services are responsive to their needs.

Technical/Functional Expectations: 

1. Clinical Oversight of Licensed OOHC Levels of Care - Essential Function: This position provides oversight of the children and youth placed in licensed out of home care ensuring placement stability and appropriateness of placement level in FPOCF Placement Service Array Matrix for Foster Care and Group Home Levels, high end, and specialized placement settings.
2. Comprehensive Clinical Review - Essential Function: In partnership with the Behavioral Health and MDT coordinators, jointly reviews clinical service intervention, participates in the OOHC daily staffing as appropriate, leads Placement Stabilization Staffing’s, and attends Baker Act Staffing’s and other Sunshine/CBCIH reviews for SIPP and STGH.
3. Data collection - Essential Function: Develops and implements tools and processes to track critical data elements including but not limited to enhanced placements, SIPP. STGH, CESC placement, congregate care, and APD settings. This position is responsible for assessing the ongoing need for placement level and appropriateness for stepping down to lower levels of care.
4. Placement Stabilization Staffings - Essential Function:  This position leads Placement Stabilization Staffing’s to achieve improved placement stabilization and decrease disruptions.
5. Second Tier on Call Rotation - Essential Function: Participates in the second tier on call rotation to provide timely service for children placed in licensed care.
6. Other duties as required: Job performance requires fulfilling other incidental or related duties as assigned, assisting, and training others, and performing duties of higher rated positions from time to time for developmental purposes.

Behavioral Competencies:

1. Analytical Problem Resolution: Able to use systematic techniques to define problems, options, and solutions; evaluate alternative solutions; solve technical problems using logic.
2. Analyzing: Able to break down problems and information to systematically identify the cause of problems or make recommendations; gather information from multiple sources; analyze complex information; organize information for analysis.
3. Strategic Perspective: Able to develop long-term, big picture strategies, recognize broad implications of issues; balance and integrate strategic vision with day-to-day activities.
4. Influence: Able to positively change the opinions and actions of others in a desired direction; present information in a persuasive manner; clarify information to gain understanding and buy-in.
5. Teamwork: Able to share ideas and learn from others to build consensus; assist others to achieve team goals; contribute to meetings so they are productive; challenge status quo to achieve excellence.
6. Decisiveness: Able to use available information to draw a timely conclusion and take timely action; ability to execute timely decisions in stressful situations in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
7. Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic backgrounds of others.
8. Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength-based, solution-focused, maintain highest level of integrity and ethical standards and collaborate with employees, partners, stakeholders, and clients in all interactions.

Business Experience:

1. Five years’ experience working in the child welfare system. This is required to appropriately manage out of home care placements in the least restrictive culturally competent setting.
2. Strength Based Family Centered Practice Orientation: This is essential to effectively support the System of Care and its values.
3. Strong Interpersonal, Presentation, and Organization skills: This is required to effectively partner with various stakeholders and agency staff and train community stakeholders.
4. Utilization and Fiscal Management: This is preferred to effectively evaluate levels of care, be fiscally responsible and manage a continuum of services.
5. Valid Driver's License - Essential: This is required to travel throughout the county and other locations.

Educational and Experience Requirements:

1. MA/MS - master’s degree or equivalent preferred in Psychology, Social Work required.
2. Licensure Mental Health Clinician (LMHC) required.
3. 5 years’ clinical experience required.        
4. Child Protection Certification required.

Physical Requirements:

1. Sitting
2. Standing
3. Reading
4. Speaking
5. Listening
6. Typing
7. Writing