ORGANIZATION: Milestone Centers Inc.
DEPARTMENT: HCQU - Butler
POSITION: Pediatric Coach
STATUS: Full Time; 37.5 hours / week
SCHEDULE: Weekdays, 37.5 hours per week Flexible to meet the department needs
LOCATION: The position will travel throughout the western PA region with a focus on clients within Allegheny County.
Milestone Centers, a subsidiary of Partners For Quality Inc., is a nonprofit, community-based human services agency supporting individuals with behavioral health challenges and intellectual & developmental disabilities in communities throughout Western Pennsylvania.
Responsibilities:The primary focus of the services of the Pediatric Complex Care Resource Centers (PCCRC) to be delivered by the Health Care Quality Units (HCQU) will be to support caregivers in the non-medical aspects of supporting a child with complex medical conditions receiving in-home shift care services. Many of these needs may be family-centered and sociodynamic in nature and will lean heavily on advisory, education, and referral functions. Families often require resources outside of what might be found among peers or extended family. The purpose of the services of the PCCRCs are to meet the needs for information and support through focused services to build family and caregiver capacity and efficacy.
The Pediatric Coach is responsible for the provision of services through the PCCRC. The Pediatric Coach will be available at the request of caregiver teams as they care for children who receive shift care nursing services. Caregiver teams include parents, family members, nurses, home health aides and anyone else who may be responsible for caring for a child with medically complex needs.
The Pediatric Coach may provide some number of three (3) distinct functions:
Caregiver Support and Intervention
The Pediatric Coach will be a resource to support principal caregivers in the non-medical aspects of supporting a child with complex needs. The Pediatric Coach may be called upon to provide support and intervention for caregiver teams as they attempt to work together, including problem solving and conflict resolution services as they attempt to collaborate around the needs of the child. They may help to negotiate the bridge between meeting familial social, and medical goals.
Learning Customization and Facilitation
The Pediatric Coach will assist children with medically complex diagnoses by providing their families and health care providers with education and training. The learning support will be targeted to meet each child’s specific needs in a way that empowers each child’s community to support them in the best way possible. Leveraging learning that is available through the PCCRC and located on the MyODP website, the Pediatric Coach will be responsible for facilitating training including classroom-based, small group, and individualized training.
Family Advisory Workgroup Facilitation
The Pediatric Coach will support caregiver teams by facilitating the meeting of PCCRC Family Advisory Groups. Each group will be regionally located according to HealthChoices regions and will meet on a quarterly basis. The Pediatric Coach will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of these events
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Interested applicants can choose to apply in any of the following ways:
Complete an employment application online
Email resumes:Careers@PFQ.org
Partners For Quality and its family of agencies are an equal opportunity employer
EOE
Qualifications:Partners For Quality Inc. (PFQ) is a private, non-profit organization based in Robinson Township. Partners For Quality provides administrative management to five subsidiary organizations that support local individuals with intellectual & developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges. PFQ’s management services include Fiscal (including payroll), HR, IT and Communications – thus allowing subsidiaries to focus on their day-to-day priorities. Our subsidiaries include Allegheny Children’s Initiative, Citizen Care, Exceptional Adventures, Milestone Centers and the Partners For Quality Foundation. Through these subsidiaries, we provide community-based supports and services to 5,000 adults and children with intellectual disabilities and behavioral health challenges in Allegheny County.
Allegheny Children’s Initiative provides mental and behavioral health community-based services to children, adolescents and families throughout Allegheny County. Based in Pittsburgh’s South Side, we provide Intensive Behavioral Health Services, Service Coordination, Student Assistance, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and Family Based Mental Health programs. ACI has earned certification from the Council On Accreditation.
Citizen Care Inc. provides residential, day program, habilitation, supported employment opportunities and behavioral support services to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are a non-profit organization, accredited by the Council on Quality & Leadership. Citizen Care has locations throughout the West Hills and South Hills of Allegheny County.
Exceptional Adventures has more than 40 years of experience providing vacation opportunities, social events and monthly dances for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our recreational and travel programs are designed to support guests in a wide variety of activities. Organized trips include motor coach, flight, train and cruise packages which are offered year-round.
Milestone Centers supports individuals with behavioral health challenges and intellectual & developmental disabilities in communities throughout Western Pennsylvania. Our Agency oversees 20 residential settings, two outpatient offices, three adult training facilities, a prevocational enterprise program, a consumer drop-in center, habilitation services, and two Health Care Quality Units in Butler and Warren, which train professionals in 18 counties. Milestone Centers has earned certification from the Sanctuary Institute for providing trauma-informed care.
The Partners For Quality Foundation conducts fundraising for all organizational services and supports. Partners For Quality Inc. receives operating funds through various sources, private gifts, grants and special events helping the agency go “above and beyond” basic needs. The Foundation’s goal is to build and strengthen PFQ’s support resources to supplement government dollars.
The Partners For Quality family of agencies is an equal opportunity employer. EOE.