Position Purpose:

The Care Coordinator is responsible for connecting GAP-R resident to necessary community resources and monitoring all progress and achievement as GAP-R resident work toward achieving individual and family treatment goals and successfully transition into the community with robust aftercare services and familial supports.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• Coordinates the development of an individually tailored treatment plan which delineates specific goals, objectives and timelines. 

 

• Coordinates Individual Treatment Plan (ITP) meetings, ensuring that they occur the first 30 days of admission and every 90 days thereafter.

 

• Maintains resident files to ensure compliance with State of Maryland (OLM) Monitoring and routine audits.

 

• Provides feedback to resident and families regarding effective strategies to barriers that effect the implementation of their treatment plans.

 

• Maintains regular and frequent communication with the family of origin for GAP-R residents to ensure familial relationships are nurtured and supported

 

• Assists GAP-R Leaders in obtaining initial information during intake, prior to admission, (i.e., signatures of legal guardian, consent forms, Social Security card, birth certificate, evaluations).

 

• Engages resident and families upon admission, serving as liaison between families and GAP-R staff.

 

• Schedules appointments for resident; provides or arranges transportation as needed to appointments and/or court hearings. 

 

• Serves as a liaison between NCCF staff and other community agencies providing services to resident and their families.               

 

• Assists resident with obtaining vital information (i.e. Social Security cards, INS documentation, identification cards). 

 

• Coordinates home visits, on-campus Family Day visits, and respite opportunities.

 

• Engages community resources for resident (i.e. substance abuse treatment, grief and loss programs, tutors, after-school programs, summer camps/jobs).

 

• Coordinates aftercare services for 6 months following a resident’s discharge from GAP-R to ensure transition and continuity of care

 

• Facilitates discharge planning meetings, ensuring they occur within 60 days of each anticipated discharge

 

• Provide discharge planning for GAP residents concluding in discharge plans signed off by the resident and family

 

• Works with families to intervene with crises that may occur when residents are struggling with pro-social behaviors, adaptations, and acute mental health needs.

 

• Integrates knowledge and understanding of underlying mental health issues and the impact on individual adolescent behaviors, needs, and requisite interventions.
   
• Completes home visits with residents on a weekly or biweekly basis, in accordance with the needs identified in the discharge plan.

 

• Facilitates family mediation and offers problem solving is available to provide crisis intervention services for the family.

 

• Works with parents and/or guardians to create and implement appropriate behavior management plans post discharge

Non-Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
 

• Assists Education Coordinator in providing job search assistance and/or locate appropriate vocational training for resident (i.e. develops community business partnerships to ensure job opportunities for resident).

 

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:
 

• College degree (B.A., B.S.) with two years related experience, preferred.  Must have an understanding of the concepts of the therapeutic milieu and the multi-disciplinary treatment teamwork.

 

• Exceptional teamwork orientation with good written/oral communication skills.

 

• Exceptional interpersonal/conflict resolution skills.

 

• Demonstration of cross-cultural competencies.

 

• Knowledge of adolescent development.

 

• Broad working knowledge relative to the needs of emotionally disturbed, victimized, learning disabled, delinquent adolescents and their family systems.

 

• An attitude compatible with the goals and purposes of NCCF.

Physical Demands/Work Environment:

While performing the responsibilities of the job, the employee is required to talk and hear. The employee is often required to sit and use their hands and fingers to handle or feel. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with arms and hands, climb or balance, and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl. Vision abilities required y this job require close vision working with a computer monitor. While performing the duties of this job, employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and vehicles. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate. While performing the responsibilities of the employee’s job, these work environment characteristics are representative of the environment the Human Resources Director will encounter. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.

Salary: $55,000 - $65,000