NYC Staffing
Child First Care Coordinator - Full Time - Stamford, CT
NYC Staffing, Stamford, Connecticut, United States, 06901
Care Coordinator Position
The Care Coordinator partners with a licensed Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. The Care Coordinator plays a crucial role in stabilizing the entire family system, while the Clinician provides psychotherapeutic caregiver-child intervention to facilitate and enhance this critical relationship. The Care Coordinator takes the lead in connecting the child and family with desired, community-based services and supports while maintaining Child First's reflective, relationship-based stance. The Care Coordinator also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills and engages in interactive play with young children in the home. Ultimately, through connecting to family resources, the Care Coordinator both decreases the "toxic" stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for optimal child development, thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children. Key Job Responsibilities
Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families. Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process. Promote family stabilization by identifying all needed and desired services. Avert crisis situations by assisting Child First family in times of urgent need. Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills as needed. Maintain a reflective lens when engaging with the caregiver. Collaborate closely with Child First Clinician to meet the needs of Child First families. Embrace use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective clinical supervision. Provide identified child and/or other children in the family with an interactive, growth-promoting play experience. Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Director. Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative. Track completion of all assessments and enter into the appropriate database. Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement. Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate. Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in child development, psychology, nursing, human services, or related field. A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years. Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision. Knowledge of early childhood development, parent education, parent-child relationships, and individual, family, and community-level risk factors. Experience working with community-based services and supports in service area. Experience working in home and community-based settings with vulnerable populations. Able to speak a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other), highly valued. Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First. Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible. Eager and able to work as part of a team. Able to communicate well verbally and in writing. Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel. Reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits. Organization Information
Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country's most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare. CHC is designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA, respectively. We deliver more than 600,000 patient visits per year from primary care hubs and community clinics across the state of CT, all connected by technology and common standards for quality. We employ several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers who are engaged in practice, teaching, and research. Our Weitzman Institute is devoted to research and practice transformation and is recognized around the country as one of the premier research institutes focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. In addition, the organization has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from the original pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and ConferMed. Location
CGC - Stamford West Broad City
Stamford State
Connecticut Time Type
Full time Equal Employment Opportunities
MWHS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
The Care Coordinator partners with a licensed Mental Health and Developmental Clinician to engage families who are referred to the Child First home-based intervention. The Care Coordinator plays a crucial role in stabilizing the entire family system, while the Clinician provides psychotherapeutic caregiver-child intervention to facilitate and enhance this critical relationship. The Care Coordinator takes the lead in connecting the child and family with desired, community-based services and supports while maintaining Child First's reflective, relationship-based stance. The Care Coordinator also enhances caregiver executive functioning skills and engages in interactive play with young children in the home. Ultimately, through connecting to family resources, the Care Coordinator both decreases the "toxic" stress in the home environment and enhances opportunities for optimal child development, thereby promoting healthy brain development for infants and young children. Key Job Responsibilities
Provide community resource expertise to Child First team and families. Engage with the Child First family and the Clinician in the collaborative family assessment process. Promote family stabilization by identifying all needed and desired services. Avert crisis situations by assisting Child First family in times of urgent need. Enhance caregiver executive functioning skills as needed. Maintain a reflective lens when engaging with the caregiver. Collaborate closely with Child First Clinician to meet the needs of Child First families. Embrace use of videotaping to enhance both therapeutic work with families and reflective clinical supervision. Provide identified child and/or other children in the family with an interactive, growth-promoting play experience. Engage in weekly individual, Team, and group reflective clinical supervision with Clinical Director. Engage actively in all aspects of the Child First Learning Collaborative. Track completion of all assessments and enter into the appropriate database. Keep all appropriate documentation for clinical accountability and reimbursement. Participate in other clinical and administrative activities as appropriate. Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in child development, psychology, nursing, human services, or related field. A minimum of three years working with culturally diverse families and young children under the age of six years. Openness to learning, capacity for self-reflection, and eagerness to participate in reflective clinical supervision. Knowledge of early childhood development, parent education, parent-child relationships, and individual, family, and community-level risk factors. Experience working with community-based services and supports in service area. Experience working in home and community-based settings with vulnerable populations. Able to speak a second language (Spanish, Portuguese, Creole, other), highly valued. Strong commitment to the vision, mission, and goals of Child First. Highly organized, self-motivated, reliable, and flexible. Eager and able to work as part of a team. Able to communicate well verbally and in writing. Comfortable with computers and experienced with Word and Excel. Reliable vehicle and appropriate insurance for home visits. Organization Information
Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country's most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and healthcare. CHC is designated as a federally qualified health center and a patient-centered medical home by HRSA, the Joint Commission, and NCQA, respectively. We deliver more than 600,000 patient visits per year from primary care hubs and community clinics across the state of CT, all connected by technology and common standards for quality. We employ several hundred medical, dental, and behavioral health providers who are engaged in practice, teaching, and research. Our Weitzman Institute is devoted to research and practice transformation and is recognized around the country as one of the premier research institutes focused on improving health care and health outcomes for special and vulnerable populations. In addition, the organization has developed three wholly owned subsidiaries from the original pilot developments within the Weitzman Institute: the National Nurse Practitioner Residency and Fellowship Training Consortium (NNPRFTC), the National Institute for Medical Assistant Advancement (NIMAA), and ConferMed. Location
CGC - Stamford West Broad City
Stamford State
Connecticut Time Type
Full time Equal Employment Opportunities
MWHS provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.