Family Navigator

Family Navigator Supervisor

The State Personnel System is an E-Verify employer. This position is being reclassified to a Family Navigator Supervisor.

What you will do:

As the Family Navigator Supervisor, you will provide a pathway to enhance family well-being for families involved in the child welfare system by ensuring that Family Navigators have the tools, resources, and support to promote safe and stable families. This is a highly responsible mid-management clinical position which administers the delivery of the Family Navigation Model and oversight of the family navigators.

This position requires a working knowledge of state and federal laws, administrative rules and regulations pertaining to the mission of behavioral health, substance abuse and mental health, domestic violence components and child protective programs, as well as personnel rules and regulations. This is professional work supervising and directing employees. The primary duty of the incumbent in this position is to spend the majority of their time communicating with, motivating, training and evaluating employees, along with planning and directing their work.

How you will make an impact:
Provide direct operational and clinical supervision to Navigators in the performance of all aspects of their duties. Ensure that families have the access, engagement, and coordination of services necessary to move forward on their goals and successfully achieve objectives designed to increase safe, independent functioning. Identify service needs, coordinating service intervention, and collaboration with system of care partners including the child protective investigator, child welfare case manager, and other subject matter experts who become engaged in assessment and treatment identification.

Use the family navigator model to deploy strategies designed to rapidly engage families in services, work closely with families and providers, and the reinforcement of delivery of quality services. Actively establish relationships with Child Protective Investigations, Case Management and provider staff and support these workers in understanding the effects of active engagement and accurate identification and activation of service needs on behavioral change and family well-being and stability.

Assist in resolving systemic barriers encountered by Navigators in their work with families and system partners. Work with other Department leadership as well as programs to integrate the services of Office of Child and Family Well-Being, the Office of Quality Assurance, Substance Abuse and Mental Health, and Economic Self-Sufficiency to ensure inter-agency collaboration with stakeholders in child and adult protection and domestic violence systems.

Carry out administrative duties such as timesheet approval, performance evaluations and programmatic data monitoring and reporting.

Qualifications:

Master's degree in behavioral health, social work, or related field 2+ years' management experience. 5+ years' experience in Child Welfare or Behavioral Health field (or both collectively). Preferred Qualifications Current or past Child Welfare Certification Licensed clinician (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) or similar licensure.

Benefits of Working for the State of Florida:
Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State's total compensation package for employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits including:
No state income tax for residents of Florida;
Annual and Sick Leave benefits;
Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year;
State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options;
Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click  );
Flexible Spending Accounts;
Tuition waivers;
And more! For a more complete list of benefits, visit

Growth Opportunities:
With 12,000 employees across the state DCF promotes opportunities and training for all. Our jobs are among the most challenging, complex, and difficult in State government. They are also among the most rewarding. All employees are encouraged to take advantage of available Department opportunities for advancement and professional development.

About Department of Children and Families:
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. Vision:
We are a highly skilled workforce committed to empowering people with complex and varied needs to achieve the best outcomes for themselves and their families. In collaboration with community stakeholders, we will deliver world class and continuously improving service focused on providing the people we serve with the level and quality that we would demand and expect for our own families.

Values: A workforce that operates with integrity maintains loyalty to a code…