Salary: $69,000/yr
Position Summary: The OOHC Manager is responsible for the management of the Out of Home Care Unit. This position ensures timely and efficient placement of children in licensed out of home care in Circuit 9, Orange, and Osceola Counties. Essential functions include data collection and analysis, monitoring of the Out of Home Care budget to ensure fiscal responsibility, providing support, guidance and direction to the Placement Coordinators/OOHC Specialist and assists with crisis stabilization as needed.
Technical/Functional Expectations:
- Oversight of Licensed Care - Essential Function: This position provides oversight of the children and youth placed in licensed out of home care including ensuring that Medicaid eligibility criteria is met and in obtaining prior authorization for Specialized Therapeutic Foster Care and Group Home Levels.
- Child Specific Outcome Measurements - Essential Function: This position provides oversight of child specific outcome measurement systems, collects, and analyzes data, report trends and participates in the System of Care roundtable.
- Data collection - Essential Function: Develops and implements tools and processes to track critical data elements.
- Over Capacity Waivers - Essential Function: Approves, tracks, and ensures over capacity waiver process complies with FL Administrative Code. Tracks over capacity waivers to ensure compliance and monitors follow on call homes OCW.
- Critical Incident Tracking - Essential Function: Review, log, and provides follow up on all Provider Critical Incident Reports.
- On Call Rotation - Essential Function: Participate in on call rotation to provide timely service for children placed in licensed care.
- Other duties as required: Job performance requires fulfilling other incidental or related duties as assigned, assisting, and training others, and performing duties of higher rated positions from time to time for developmental purposes.
Behavioral Competencies:
- Analytical Problem Resolution: Able to use systematic techniques to define problems, options, and solutions; evaluate alternative solutions; solve technical problems using logic.
- Analyzing: Able to break down problems and information to systematically identify the cause of problems or make recommendations; gather information from multiple sources; analyze complex information; organize information for analysis.
- Strategic Perspective: Able to develop long-term, big picture strategies to enhance competitiveness; recognize broad implications of issues; balance and integrate strategic vision with day-to-day activities.
- Influence: Able to positively change the opinions and actions of others in a desired direction; present information in a persuasive manner; clarify information to gain understanding and buy-in.
- Teamwork: Able to share ideas and learn from others to build consensus; assist others to achieve team goals, contribute to meetings so they are productive; challenge status quo to achieve excellence.
- Decisiveness: Able to use available information to draw a timely conclusion and take quick and timely action; make quick and timely decisions in stressful situations and when necessary.
- Sensitivity: Work effectively with and show sensitivity to cultural differences and various socio-economic backgrounds of others.
- Ethics: Adhere to and model principles and values of Agency and System of Care by being strength-based, solution-focused, maintains highest level of integrity and ethical standards and work collaboratively with employees, partners, stakeholders and clients in all interactions.
Business Experience:
- Three years’ experience as a supervisor: This is required to appropriately manage out of home care placements in the least restrictive culturally competent setting.
- Strength Based Family Centered Practice Orientation: This is essential to effectively support the System of Care and its values.
- Strong Interpersonal, Presentation, and Organization skills: This is required to effectively partner with various stakeholders and agency staff and train community stakeholders.
- Utilization and Fiscal Management: This is preferred to effectively evaluate levels of care, be fiscally responsible and manage a continuum of services.
- Valid Driver's License - Essential: This is required to travel throughout the county and other locations.
Educational and Experience Requirements:
- BA/BS - Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required.
- MA/MS - Master’s Degree or equivalent preferred.
- 3 years supervisor experience required.
Physical Requirements:
- Sitting
- Standing
- Reading
- Speaking
- Listening
- Typing
- Writing
Brevard Family Partnership Family of Agencies are Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. These employers also maintain Drug-Free Workplaces. Requests for Auxiliary Aids for Hearing Impaired or Limited English Proficiency Candidates may be made with a minimum of five (5) days notice to C. Hernandez at (321) 752-4650.
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