FAMILY NAVIGATOR (NWR) - 60040126

Requisition No: 831223 

Agency: Children and Families

Working Title: FAMILY NAVIGATOR (NWR) - 60040126

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 60040126 

Salary:  $50,000-$70,000 

Posting Closing Date: 04/25/2025 

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Family Navigator

Department of Children and Families

Northwest Region 

Open Competitive

Current employees will be compensated in accordance with the DCF salary policy.

 

What you will do:

As a Family Navigator you will engage with families early in the investigation process and partner with them to assess their needs, set goals, access services and progress toward safe, long term independence. You will ensure that our highest risk families have a voice in the process and feel empowered to make needed changes. You will establish relationships with system partners and help pave the way as this exciting new program grows and expands in the Suncoast Region.

 

 

How you will make an impact:

• Promote access, engagement, and coordination of services for families in the child welfare system with behavioral health needs by deploying strategies designed to rapidly engage families in services, work closely with providers, and monitor the delivery of quality services.

 

• Work closely with families to develop relationships, set goals, and provide support and guidance as they navigate the system and work toward long term safety and stability.

 

• 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 knowledge of the child welfare system to assist with recognizing behaviors associated with safety and well-being and ensure thorough assessment and understanding of family dynamics in order to quickly engage families in meaningful service linkage and intervention.

 

• Understand the stages of change and provide insight into behavioral changes connected to successful outcomes to promote safe and stable families by following identified cases from inception through closure to ensure ongoing collaboration and information sharing among partners and service providers, heighten awareness of existing risk factors, and ensure intentional service connection and delivery to promote safe and stable families. 

 

• Actively establish relationships with Child Protective Investigator, 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.