HOPE NAVIGATOR II - 60025466

Requisition No: 841108 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: HOPE NAVIGATOR II - 60025466

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60025466 

Salary:  40,084.32 

Posting Closing Date: 11/14/2024 

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Job Title: HOPE NAVIGATOR II - 60064670

Hope Navigator II

 THIS IS NOT A TELEWORK POSITION. CANDIDATE WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK IN THE OFFICE. 

 Location: Central Region

Some travel will be required.

This is a full-time Career Service position, working 40 hours per week.

Regular business hours are 8:00 am - 5:00 pm EST, Monday to Friday.

Salary: $40,084.32  

If selected for hire, current DCF employees will be compensated in accordance with the DCF salary policy. 

Required Minimum Qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent, four (4) years of experience in Social Services.
  • Note: Be prepared to provide a copy of your degree/diploma or request official transcripts from your school in a sealed envelope. All documents must be in English, clear, and legible, showing all signatures and pertinent details. Foreign degrees must be validated by a third party to meet the US equivalency requirements. All costs are the responsibility of the applicant.
•  Valid Driver’s License.
• Able and willing to travel within the region and/or to stay overnight outside the region when required?

Preference will be given to candidates who meet the following:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a Human Services field or equivalent experience, four (4) years in Case management.
  • Note: Be prepared to provide a copy of your degree/diploma or request official transcripts from your school in a sealed envelope. All documents must be in English, clear, and legible, showing all signatures and pertinent details. Foreign degrees must be validated by a third party to meet the US equivalency requirements. All costs are the responsibility of the applicant.
  • Note: Case management experience is defined as experience with conducting assessments, preparing plans, making referrals, implementing plans and follow up with monitoring and evaluation of those plans.
• Valid Florida Driver’s License.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

This is a professional position in the Office of Community Services – Hope Florida program, responsible for helping clients access a wide variety of services and resources to achieve economic independence. Hope Navigators work with clients to identify and overcoming barriers to economic self-sufficiency such as education, transportation, and employment.

The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:

• Conducting a comprehensive, person-centered assessment to identify client’s goals to economic independence and barriers that prevent self-sufficiency.
• Formulates an appropriate care coordination plan of action that addresses identified areas of need based on outcomes of the assessment.
• Acting as a navigator for clients regarding available program services and optional methods of attaining self-sufficiency goals.
• Identifying and maintaining a working knowledge of available community resources, in conjunction with the Community Development Administrators and Community Partner Liaisons, to meet the individual needs of each family and ensures the connection of families to relevant community resources and support.
• Documenting all pertinent information and ensures that all appropriate forms, such as, but not limited to, the intake screening form, care coordination assessment and care coordination plan of action are completed and uploaded into the program data tracking system accurately and timely.
• Provides follow-up and monitors connections to service delivery.
• Preparing correspondence, case notes, narratives, technical reports, notifications, and related documents using computer-based applications.
• Assisting families with identifying and engaging family and community supports, as well as discussing and making referrals for immediate service needs.
• Assisting families in identifying and applying for appropriate benefits and services, offering referrals to other state agencies and other resources to support individuals and families as necessary.
• Maintains frequent communication with clients of care navigation, reassesses needs, and completes additional referrals and updates to care coordination plan, if needed.
• Collecting and analyzing data on outcomes to identify and refine referral choices.
• Participating in strategic planning and quality improvement processes.
• Actively participating in ongoing cross-program training and team meetings.
• Building and maintaining relationships with respect, trust, sensitivity and confidentiality to client, coworkers and community stakeholders and partners.
• Participating in national, state, and local meetings, committees, community activities, outreach events and other team efforts as required.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities, including utilization of equipment, required for the position:

• Knowledge of the methods of data collection and analysis.
• Basic management principles and practices.
• Ability to collect, evaluate and analyze data to develop alternative recommendations, solve problems, document workflow and other activities relating to the improvement of operational and management practices.
• Organize data into logical format for presentation in reports, documents, and other written materials.
• Conduct fact-finding research.
• Utilize problem-solving techniques.
• Understand and apply applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures relating to operational and management analysis activities.
• Plan, organize and coordinate work assignments.
• Communicate effectively.
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Mission:  The mission of the Department of Children and Families is to work in partnership with local communities to protect the vulnerable, promote strong and economically self-sufficient families, and advance personal and family recovery and resiliency.

To learn more about DCF please visit https://www.myflfamilies.com/

For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com

Candidate Profile (application) must be completed in its entirety.

• Include supervisor names and phone numbers for all periods of employment.
• Account for and explain any gaps in employment so that the hiring process is not delayed.
• Experience, education, training, knowledge, skills and/or abilities as well as responses to pre-qualifying questions must be verifiable to meet the minimum qualifications.
• It is unacceptable to use the statement “See Resume” in place of entering work history.

The position will perform all job tasks in accordance with laws, rules, regulations, policies, and requirements applicable to state and federal laws or procedures.

EMPLOYMENT DISCLOSURES

1. US CITIZEN REQUIREMENT Only US citizens and lawfully authorized alien workers will be hired.
2. SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM REGISTRATION All selected male candidates born on or after October 1, 1962, will not be eligible for hire or promotion into an authorized position unless they are registered with the Selective Service System (SSS).  Verification of Selective Service registration will be conducted prior to hire.  For more information, please visit the SSS website: http://www.sss.gov.
3. RETIREE NOTICE If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you required to repay all benefits received depending upon the date of your retirement.
4. BACKGROUND SCREENING It is the policy of the Florida Department of Children and Families that any applicant being considered for employment must successfully complete a State and National criminal history check as a condition of employment before beginning employment, and, if applicable, also be screened in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, F.S., and Chapter 408, F.S.  No applicant may begin employment until the background screening results are received, reviewed for any disqualifying offenses, and approved by the Agency.  Background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for State and Federal criminal records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and may include local criminal history checks through local law enforcement agencies.
5. BENEFIT RECOVERY SCREENING Candidates applying to positions in the Economic Self-Sufficiency Program may have a Benefit Recovery check completed to validate current or former public assistance case information before completing the hiring process.

If you experience problems applying online, please call the People First Service Center at (877) 562-7287.

The State of Florida is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer, and does not tolerate discrimination or violence in the workplace.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

VETERANS’ PREFERENCE.  Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply.  Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements.  Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code.  Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here.  All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.