KEIS Service Coordinator

Cumberland River Behavioral Health Inc•Corbin, KY

27d•Hybrid

About The Position

The KEIS Service Coordinator plays a crucial role in the early intervention system, focusing on coordinating services for children and families. This position involves active participation in public awareness and child find activities, determining referral needs, and providing intake into the early intervention system. The coordinator will inform families of their rights and available advocacy services, and with consent, meet families to identify their priorities, resources, and concerns. A key responsibility is securing medical information, arranging for necessary evaluations, and ensuring eligibility for early intervention services. The role also involves preparing families for and enabling their participation in the early intervention process, including the development, review, and updates of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP). The Service Coordinator will assist families in reviewing available resources and providers, ensuring procedural safeguards, and maintaining accurate records. They will also foster communication and linkages with various interagency groups, establish cooperative relationships with referral sources and service providers, and coordinate ongoing assessments. The position requires assisting families in developing systems for information management, identifying ongoing needs, and building a partnership through regular contact. The Service Coordinator acts as a single point of contact to coordinate, monitor, and ensure effective service delivery, avoiding duplication and fragmentation. They will facilitate collaboration among families and service providers, assist families in crisis, and coordinate transition plans to preschool or other placements. Ensuring the faithful implementation of procedural safeguards, including rights to IFSP implementation, privacy, due process, and advocacy, is paramount. The role also includes facilitating and participating in the evaluation of service outcomes and the KEIS system, identifying continuing education needs, and adhering to ethical and professional standards. Accurate client file management, timely service provision, and responding to emergencies are also key aspects of this role. The ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and independently is essential.

Requirements

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree
At least two years’ experience working with young children ages birth through 5 years.
Oral and Written Communication Skills
Interpersonal Skills
Ability to exercise good judgment, tact, diplomacy and compassion when problem solving, handling conflict or in a crisis situation
Ability to complete record keeping in a timely fashion
Ability to formulate treatment objectives for the person served
Ability to get along with diverse personalities and maintain effective working relationships
Ability to work well with people of all races, backgrounds and needs
Physically able to reach, push, pull, stoop, bend, stand, walk and lift up to 20 pounds.
All staff must be certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation within one month of employment and maintain the certification, if providing direct care.
Possess a valid Driver’s License and maintain a safe driving record if required for job performance.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and actively participate in public awareness and child find activities.
Determine the nature of each referral and the appropriate follow-up contacts.
Provide intake into the early intervention system, including obtaining necessary information and releases.
Inform the family of their rights and safeguards and of the availability of advocacy services.
With the family's consent, meet the family in their home or at another location as preferred by the family to assist in identifying their priorities, resources and concerns.
Secure medical information and history and recent evaluations and assessments of the child and arrange for additional ones, as needed.
Ensure that eligibility for early intervention services is determined for the child.
Prepare families for and enable them to participate in all aspects of the early intervention process.
Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in development of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP).
Assist the family in reviewing available resources, services, and providers and in identifying other possible options.
Ensure procedural safeguards, including confidentiality and timely delivery of services.
Maintain ongoing tracking data and accurate records pertaining to children and families served and to available resources.
Maintain communication and linkages with the District Early Intervention Committee (DEIC), local Preschool Interagency Planning Councils (PIPCs), and other community and local interagency groups.
Establish and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with referral sources and service providers.
Coordinate ongoing assessments and evaluations and promote early intervention teaming during these processes.
Assist the family in developing a system for gathering and maintaining pertinent information and records.
Ensure identification of the family's resources, priorities, and concerns on an ongoing basis and develop a partnership with the family through regular contacts.
Coordinate, facilitate and participate in the development, review, evaluation, and updates of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) with the family and other members of the early intervention team on an ongoing basis.
Facilitate, enable, and ensure the family's involvement and decision-making authority throughout the information-gathering process and the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the IFSP.
Assist the family in identifying and accessing appropriate services, resources, and providers for their child and their family.
Serve as a single point of contact, in collaboration with the family, to coordinate, monitor, and ensure effective and efficient delivery of services that are pertinent to the child's and family's total service needs and assure that duplication and fragmentation are avoided.
Facilitate collaboration and mediation among the family and service providers to ensure an integrated transdisciplinary process and to strengthen the family's ability to coordinate services for their child.
Assist the family in times of crisis or unexpected events.
Coordinate and facilitate development of plans for transition to preschool or other placement as part of the IFSP in a timely manner as defined by law.
Ensure the faithful implementation of all procedural safeguards, including the family's right to implementation of the IFSP, the right to privacy under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the right to due process, and the right to advocate for additional services as may be determined necessary to meet the needs of the child and family.
Maintain accurate records and ongoing data regarding the children and families served.
Facilitate and participate in the evaluation of individual service outcomes and the evaluation of the Kentucky Early Intervention System (KEIS).
Identify continuing education needs for self, families, and colleagues and seek resources, information, and training opportunities to meet these.
Provide care based on ethical concepts, adhering to established standards of practice and engage in activities or behaviors that characterize professionalism.
Ensure the accuracy, content and completeness of client files.
Provide services within time requirement as set forth in Agency policy and procedures.
Refrain from assuming any duty that is unrelated to and/or interferes with the responsibilities of the position.
Respond to emergency situation in a timely fashion.
Demonstrate the ability to work effectively with other team members, as part of a multidisciplinary team, and independently, when necessary.
Other duties may be assigned.