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Job Summary : (Position Located in Pinellas County) Responsible professional work delivering navigation services utilizing a broad range of prescribed methods, community services, and natural support systems to develop sustainable support that promote prevention of child abuse and neglect. Involves a broad range of linkage and referrals, monitoring, advocacy, care coordination, and crisis intervention. Requires quality documentation of services provided. Participates in the organization's continuous quality improvement efforts.

Essential Functions :

1.Helps parent / caregiver obtain the community resources and training needed to raise physically, psychologically, and emotionally healthy children.

2.Provides parenting support, education, and care coordination to caregivers with young children at risk of child of having experienced abuse or trauma, having physical disabilities, having a developmental delay or disability and behavioral struggles.

3.Monitors caregiver and child's needs and helps implement a plan for intervention services.

4.Participates in Family Team Conferences for families.

5.Actively participates in a multidisciplinary team to discuss family progress, identified needs, support plans and methods of increasing effectiveness of the group's teamwork.

6.Completes timely documentation in accordance with program requirements.

7.Provides direct support services to families utilizing wraparound approaches.

8.Monitors ongoing progress within the family and all supportive services. Serves as liaison to connect the youth and family, and any and all involved agencies and systems, together as identified, i.e. Educational, Community, etc.

9.Conducts pre and post assessments in order to measure progress and develop a sustainability plan for closure.

10.Coordinates parent meetings and workshops to educate parents in the area of child health, mental health, and development.

11.Maintains fidelity to the Caregiver Support Services program model.

12.Monitors and evaluates effectiveness of the Family Service Plan.

13.Works within the philosophy and function of Children's Home Network.

14.Adheres to virtual office procedures.

15.Performs other duties as assigned

• THESE ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS ARE NOT TO BE CONSTRUED AS A COMPLETE STATEMENT OF ALL DUTIES PERFORMED. EMPLOYEES WILL BE REQUIRED TO PERFORM OTHER JOB RELATED MARGINAL DUTIES AS REQUIRED.

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