Care Management Coordinator

Salary Range: $41,684 - $52,106

Learn about The Buckeye Ranch – Care Management Entity

The Buckeye Ranch is thrilled to support the mission of OhioRISE as a lead Care Management Entity in East Franklin County!  OhioRISE (Resilience through Integrated Systems and Excellence) is a specialized managed care program for youth with complex behavioral health and multi-system needs.  As a Care Management Entity, The Buckeye Ranch will advocate and build a system of care, will provide Care Coordination with focus on meeting the unique needs of children and families, ensuring the best care, the right care, supported by strong communities.  With partners across the community, The Buckeye Ranch CME will be a central place to help families, providers, and community partners navigate our complex systems.  The work of the CME is in line with the mission of The Buckeye Ranch, restoring hope and providing healing for children, youth, and families. 

A Care Coordinator is skilled at engaging and working with children, youth, and families in the community with significant behavioral health needs. Care Coordination team members provide care coordination activities aligned with The Buckeye Ranch (TBR) philosophy and mission – Providing hope and healing through family-centered, strengths based, trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and integrated and coordinated care. Care Coordination team members have a thorough understanding of local communities, skilled at developing working relationships with community agencies, and can identify potential community supports for development to assist families/caregivers working collaboratively with Child and Family Teams. Care Coordination staff ensure children, youth and families have a voice and choice in all coordinated care and services provided pertinent to High Fidelity Wraparound certification training. A successful Care Coordination team member will be a contributing member of a team, complete intensive training to learn agency philosophy, model of care, and receive supervision to ensure successful care coordination activities and documentation, and ensure the best possible outcomes for children, youth, and families.

Schedule: Full-time, Exempt (Monday - Friday: 9:00am - 5:00pm), some evenings required 

Location: Whitehall, OH

What you’ll do:

• Completion of training in High Fidelity Wraparound and skills-based training to provide Intensive (ICC) and Moderate (MCC) cases and ensure maintenance of training and certification requirements.
• Identifies care coordination needs/services in line with CANS outcomes and High Fidelity Wraparound model certification and support development and implementation of care plans including networks of support to ensure best outcomes for children, youth, and families.
• Schedules contact and engages with families/providers with frequency based on the needs of the family, in adherence to level of Care Coordination; plans visits around family’s needs (i.e., work schedules, school activities, etc.). Coordinates family-based-services for children, youth, and families in their home, school, and community.
• Ensures services identified on care plans are the most appropriate, least restrictive, and meet the safety and treatment needs of the child, youth, and family.
• Link service to families and support appropriate referrals to local community services and resources.
• Engage in communication with children, youth and family in a nurturing and emotionally safe manner. Ability to assess situations, identify needs, and support development of effective solutions.
• Develops collaborative relationships with partners and community resources tailored to meet the needs of culturally diverse healthcare consumers and family.
• Complete all documentation including, assessments, CANS, care plans, etc.

 Who you are:

• You have a Bachelor's Degree human services field (preferred)
• You have experience related to children’s behavioral health, child welfare, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, or a related public sector human services or behavioral healthcare field, providing community-based services to children and youth, and their family or caregivers.
  • Three years with a high school diploma or associate's degree
  • Two years with a bachelor's degree (human services field)
  • Master's degree (human services field)
• You have an active driver’s license and proof of auto insurance.

Our Benefits:

• The Buckeye Ranch maintains a diverse and inclusive work environment
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision, life, 401-k plan, short and long-term disability
• Education Assistance
• License Reimbursement
• Free CEU’s and supervision hours for clinical licensure
• And more…

Applicants are considered for all positions in accordance with statutes and regulations concerning non-discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, age, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, non-disqualifying disability, veteran status, or other protected classification. The Buckeye Ranch is an equal opportunity employer, as well as a substance and tobacco free workplace. All offers of employment are contingent on satisfactory pre-employment drug screen.

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