Behavioral Health Care Coordination Specialist - Scioto/Lawrence Counties

Cincinnati Children's

50d•$21 - $26•Remote

About The Position

The Behavioral Health Care Coordination Specialist will utilize a high fidelity wrap-around model and/or principles to provide community-based care coordination for children and families experiencing serious emotional disturbance (SED), trauma, and co-occurring behavioral health disorders. These individuals are engaged with one or more child-serving systems, such as child welfare, intellectual and developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, or education. The role involves engaging newly referred youth and families, conducting in-person meetings, partnering with families to develop a Child and Family-Centered Care Plan (CFCCP), and facilitating Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings. Key functions also include completing comprehensive assessments like the Child and Adolescent Needs and Strength (CANS) assessment, developing safety and crisis plans, facilitating referrals and linkages, monitoring care plan implementation, managing 1915 Waiver funds, ensuring documentation meets all requirements, billing for care coordination activities, and performing discharge and transition planning.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years’ experience, or Master’s degree with 1 year experience in one or more of the following areas-Family systems; Community systems and resources; Case management; Child and Family counseling or therapy; Child protection; Child development.
Must have reliable transportation.
Must reside in the Scioto/Lawrence County area

Nice To Haves

Wraparound experience
Meeting facilitation experience
Community-based experience

Responsibilities

Engage newly referred youth and family in care coordination
Conduct in-person meetings with client and care giver within required timeframes.
Partner with family to develop Child and Family-Centered Care Plan (CFCCP) and to identify client family team.
Facilitate Child and Family Team (CFT) meetings at least monthly or more frequently depending on need.
Complete comprehensive assessments including Child and Adolescent Needs and Strength (CANS) assessment.
Develop safety and crisis plan.
Facilitate referrals and linkages, monitor care plan implementation.
Manage 1915 Waiver funds ensuring prior authorization and ODM approval is obtained.
Ensure documentation meets all requirements.
Bill for care coordination activities.
Discharge planning and transition planning activities.
Engaging the youth and their family in forming their unique CFT, preparing them to be full partners in the assessment, planning, and implementation of their ISP
Convening CFT meetings, ensuring that CFT meetings are convenient for the family
Serving as the facilitator of the CFT, ensuring that the CFCCP development is a collaborative effort of all the Team members
Serving as the point person for the CFT, remaining in contact with all members to ensure implementation and effectiveness of the CFCCP, monitoring the commitments of the team members and assisting with implementation issues
Developing and implementing an individual crisis and safety plan as needed in conjunction with the youth and family
Coordinating care with all providers and agencies with whom the family is involved, including youth’s physical health providers and school personnel
Ensuring effective referrals and linkages with appropriate assessments, supports, and service
Ensuring that all services, supports, and care management processes respect the youth and family’s rights to define their specific goals and choose their providers and resources, and monitoring to ensure that all supports, and services are family friendly and culturally competent
Communicating ongoing CFCCP implementation progress and updated strategies to all Team members, obtaining their cooperation and approval
Working with others to develop community resources to meet youth and families’ needs as identified
Ensuring good information management and documentation, including attendance of team members and their approval of the CFCCP are documented in the youth’s EHR
Ensuring that the written CFCCP is signed by the youth (as age appropriate), family/caregiver(s), and the Care Coordinator and placed in the youth’s record within 2 weeks of the CFT meeting
Ensuring that the CFCCP is provided to Aetna for quality review and initiating the authorization process for services as needed and within timeframe indicated by ODM.