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Moderate Care Coordinator Job Description Position Title: Moderate Care Coordinator (Tier 2) Reports to: JCESC Care Coordinator Supervisor Works in collaboration with: Child and Family Team (CFT), other care coordinators and agencies/partnerships to provide Tier 2 services. Term:   Full-time position with health care and retirement benefits Salary Range: $40,000- $57,000 Work Location: Blended home office and regional offices with locations in Steubenville and Canton Ohio.   Service counties include Belmont, Columbiana, Harrison, Jefferson, Monroe, Stark and Tuscarawas. Travel: Ability to travel within the assigned region, to multiple offices, and home locations with personal vehicle.  Most possess reliable transportation valid/active driver’s License and proof of insurance. Training: Provided upon employment Position Summary: Provide timely holistic care coordination to children enrolled in OhioRISE, with appropriate expertise to coordinate behavioral, medical, and pharmacy health services, including for children with dual diagnoses (BH/IDD). Will use a wraparound-informed model for members with moderate behavioral health needs. Key Responsibilities and Activities: • Use clinical, operational, and technical expertise to manage and provide MCC care coordination. • Manage 1915 (c) home and community-based waiver service coordination within federal requirements. • Work cooperatively with the CFT and share responsibility for developing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluation a single child and family-centered plan. • Actively grow and leverage partnerships with other (non-health) child-serving systems. • Conduct outreach to the child’s family within one business day of referral to MCC. • Complete and submit child and family-centered care plans (initial, changes, transitions) to the OhioRISE plan for review and approval according to standards. • Respond to member needs twenty-four hours a day. Approach to Tier 2 Care Coordination Provide structured service planning and care coordination based on wraparound principles, as established by the National Wraparound Initiative including: • An initial home-based, comprehensive assessment resulting in the development of the child and family-centered care plan. • A CANS assessment once every 180 calendar days or whenever there is a significant change in the member’s behavioral health needs or circumstances. • Convening and facilitating the child and family team. • Developing a crisis safety plan. • Reviewing the child and family-centered care plan every thirty days or whenever there is a significant change in the member’s needs or circumstances. • Monitoring the child and family centered care plan. • Performing referrals and linkages to appropriate services along the continuum of care. • Ratio of one MCC to no more than twenty-five OhioRISE members receiving MCC services. Education and qualifications: • Minimum of 3 years’ experience in children’s mental health, child welfare, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, or a related public sector human services or behavioral health care field, providing community-based services to children and youth, and their family/caregivers. • Background and experience in one or more of the following areas of expertise: family systems, community systems and resources, case management, child and family counseling/therapy, child protection, or child development. • Be clinically and culturally competent/responsive with training and experience necessary to manage complex cases in the community across child-serving systems. • Have the qualifications and experience needed to work with children and families who are experiencing SED, trauma, co-occurring behavioral health disorders and who are engaged with one or more child-serving systems (e.g., child welfare, juvenile justice, education) • MCC care coordinators will complete the high-fidelity wraparound training program provided by an independent validation entity recognized by ODM. Care coordinators will successfully complete skill and competency-based training to provide MCC. • Complete the state-required training program provided by the COE. Abilities Required: • Knowledge of human resources, personnel practices and human relations. • Ability to work well with individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. • In addition, the care coordinator should be: • Trustworthy, confidential, accessible, objective, not biased. • Interested in own professional growth. Working Conditions: • travel to service coordination family locations. • 260 day contract with benefits