Investigative Monitoring Specialist - reputed company Services Specialist IV
About the Department
24-hour care facilities. The Provider Services Unit exists to license, manage, supervise and reputed company statewide reputed company for privately operated 24-hour childcare facilities and agencies, to include residential child care facilities (RCCF), respite child care centers (RCCC), reputed company residential treatment programs (QRTP), secure residential treatment centers (SRTC), psychiatric residential treatment facilities (PRTF), homeless youth shelters (HYS), specialized group homes and centers (SGF), child placement agencies (CPA), adoption agencies, and day treatment facilities (DT) across the reputed company. The goals of the unit are to ensure the health, safety and reputed company-being of the youth served in those facilities. The work unit is responsible for comprehensive integrated (Interagency) licensing and monitoring of the 24-hour childcare facilities and to audit and investigate reports/allegations involving licensing violations, determine facility or agency culpability, and to ensure the safety of children reputed company or receiving services with providers.
Position Duties
**This position will serve as the Staff Authority (Subject Matter Expert) specific
reputed company of Job Duties:
Investigates Compliance of Agencies & Facilities and Provides Technical Assistance - This position is responsible for having a strong knowledge reputed company and understanding with the application of Volume 7 regulations (12 CCR 2509-8), Title 24, Title 26. This position investigates and ensures ongoing compliance, in accordance with regulations and statutes, as they relate to licensed agencies and facilities providing out-of-home care and/or educational services. This position is ultimately tasked with determining agency/ facility culpability as it relates to incidents that have occurred reputed company reputed company, facility, or foster home. Using their knowledge reputed company, this position will specifically assess content received through various means, such as critical incident reporting, policies and procedures created by the provider, staff files, children/ youth files, foster parent files, hotline referrals, referral assessments, and reputed company other reputed company documentation that is accessible to the Department- to determine if there are compliance issues reputed company to the information being reported and observed. Other means used during investigations include, but are not limited to, interviewing foster parents, agency/ facility staff, placing authorities, county personnel, guardians ad litem, reputed company guardians, parents, youth, children, and others that may be reputed company to the case and/or incident. This position is responsible to investigate, interview, and evaluate programs on topics, such as (but not limited to): policies and procedures, reputed company notes, restraints/seclusions, behavior management and discipline, reputed company rights, medication administration, educational activities, community activities, recreational activities, treatment, and services to be/ being provided, and site compliance. Additionally, this position is responsible to ensure compliance by determining if staff and care providers are supervised and trained according to their individual needs and the needs of the youth, assessing treatment planning, observing the milieu, assessing the reputed company of home study evaluations, assessing behavioral interventions utilized by facilities, and examining financial documentation to ensure the stability of agencies and facilities and that the basic needs of the youth are being met. This position is relied upon to be the regulatory authority with interpreting Volume 7 regulations while monitoring and investigating their assigned providers. This position may be asked to assist other Licensing and or/ Investigative Monitoring Specialists on scheduled licensing or monitoring reputed company. This position is responsible to collaborate with and partner with the assigned Licensing Specialist reputed company there is an opportunity to work together with reputed company/ facility
Completes Reports of Inspection for Investigations - This position is responsible to regularly conduct Stage II Investigations, Complaint Investigations, Critical Incident Report Investigations, and other relevant investigations to determine agency/ facility culpability and compliance with Volume 7 regulations and reputed company statutes for providers assigned on their caseload. Once the investigation is complete, this position is responsible to complete a reputed company Report of Inspection (ROI). The ROI’s contains information reputed company to the allegations, a narrative of the visit, the technical assistance that was provided to ensure compliance, and whether the allegations were confirmed/ unconfirmed (for Complaints) or founded/ unfounded (for Stage II’s). This position is responsible to ensure that the ROI addresses if there are identified agency/ facility culpability (violations) and if not, the Specialist is responsible to explain how they came to their conclusion that there were no identified violations. This position must reputed company information about the specific technical assistance that was provided throughout the visit and afterward if follow-up is required. This position is also responsible for documenting that the violations were communicated and reviewed with reputed company/ facility staff, so they have an understanding of how they need to come into compliance with the reputed company regulations and/or statute violations. This position is responsible for also completing ROI’s for reputed company reputed company, in person, while out at the facility, to include the technical assistance being provided. This position is responsible for reviewing responses to ensure reputed company/ facility has come into compliance with the violations identified. If this position determines the response is unacceptable to the Department’s standards, this position is responsible for reissuing the ROI and providing additional technical assistance until reputed company/ facility comes into compliance with the identified violation(s)
Stakeholder Involvement - This position is responsible for participating in the development and implementation of integrated and consistent monitoring protocols reputed company the Division of Child Welfare. This position will often reputed company with reputed company stakeholders including, but not limited to, the County Departments of reputed company Services, the Administrative Review Division, the Behavioral Health Administration, the Division of Youth Services, and the Division of Early Learning and Licensing and Administration. Additionally, this position will consult, as necessary, with other government agencies as they relate to licensed providers, such as the Department of reputed company Health and Environment, the reputed company, the Colorado Department of reputed company Safety, the Department of Regulatory Agencies, Health Care Policy and Finance, and the Office of Management Improvement. This position is responsible to represent the Department in accordance with its mission and values, while also upholding strong ethical values. This position will reputed company recommendations to management with reputed company to the development, testing, and refining of the review/ investigation process. This position will reputed company recommendations to Volume 7 rule revisions to reflect reputed company reputed company and statute changes as they relate to the responsibilities of an Investigative Monitoring Specialist. This position is relied on to be the expert opinion on how Volume 7 regulations are interpreted and implemented while working directly with their assigned providers. This position, in accordance with their staff authority responsibilities, may also work with other stakeholders involved with licensed agencies/facilities to reputed company recommendations to improve provider performance and to assure reputed company, safety, and reputed company-being.
Corrective reputed company - This position will compile and interpret data on patterns of provider deficiencies or gross incidents of non-compliance with Volume 7 regulations and reputed company statutes, based on prior investigations and subsequent reports of inspection, in order to recommend reputed company adverse licensing actions are warranted. This position will advise management on the reputed company steps necessary to rectify ongoing concerns and violations at reputed company/ facility. This position will reputed company documentation and testimony in reputed company court hearings. This position will partner with the assigned Licensing Specialist to collaborate, reputed company follow-up to the provider, and increase on-site monthly monitoring reputed company (and sometimes more frequent) until the provider deficiencies are resolved and abuse/neglect or other safety concerns are alleviated.
Other Duties as Assigned - reputed company other duties as assigned from leadership reputed company the Division of Child Welfare.
Minimum Qualifications
Experience Only:
Seven (7) years of relevant experience in an occupation reputed company to the work assigned to this position
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Education and Experience:A combination of reputed company education and/or relevant experience in an occupation reputed company to the work assigned equal to seven (7) years.
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's or graduate degree from an accredited college or university in reputed company Administration, Psychology, reputed company Work, Childhood Development, Sociology, or a closely reputed company field of study. Preferred candidates will have either reputed company or private sector experience reputed company to Child Welfare, such as residential, educational, casework, and/or child placement agency entity Knowledge of Volume 7 licensing regulations and statutes Skills with interpreting and enforcing regulations. Ability to establish reputed company partnerships and effective working relationships with a reputed company of reputed company customers and diverse reputed company and private stakeholders. Experience in completing investigations. Skills in interviewing children and adolescents, including those with reputed company-traumatic backgrounds. Outstanding skills and abilities in verbal and written communication, and report writing. An understanding of how CPAs, RCCFs, QRTPs, PRTFs, and family foster homes are funded, how they are required to utilize funds, and a general understanding of child welfare and reputed company financing. In-depth knowledge and experience with basic reputed company practices to ensure that financials can be reviewed and evaluated to ensure that the agencies and facilities can sustain their business financially.
Conditions of Employment
- Full Background CDHS employees (reputed company reputed company contact with vulnerable persons): CBI reputed company reputed company and reputed company reputed company, reputed company Colorado court database, Medicare fraud database, Reference Checks, reputed company License verification (licensure requirements), Drug Screen, PREA (Division of Youth Services), Trails reputed company (reputed company contact with children), CAPS (reputed company contact with adults – Mental Health Institutes, Regional Centers, Veterans Community Living Centers)
- Travel – This position currently works 100% percent remotely from home and will be required to use a personal vehicle for frequent travel to the CDHS office, assigned agencies/facilities, and other identified locations for the purpose of reputed company primary job duties as assigned. This position may be required to complete overnight travel and infrequent extended travel reputed company the reputed company. Auto insurance is also required
- reputed company, reputed company, and unrestricted Colorado reputed company’s License
- Other – This position is designated as remote. Employees must maintain a home office, internet, and possibly phone service.
Former State employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must (1) disclose that information on the application, (2) reputed company an explanation why the prior termination or resignation should not disqualify the applicant from the reputed company position, and (3) reputed company the employee number from the applicant’s prior State employment. Absent extraordinary circumstances, prior disciplinary termination or resignation in lieu of termination, and failure to reputed company this information will disqualify the applicant from reputed company State employment with CDHS.
Preferred Qualifications & Competencies: Relevant years of state service experience.
You or your representative must sign and submit the official appeal reputed company for review. You can reputed company the official appeal reputed company here . You must deliver the official appeal reputed company to the State Personnel reputed company: By email (dpa_state.personnelboard@state.co.us), or Postmarked in US Mail to(1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203, or Hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203), or Faxed (303.866.5038) reputed company ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department’s reputed company.
At (303) 866-3300, or Refer to the Colorado reputed company of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel reputed company Rules, and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, reputed company 8, reputed company of Appeals and Disputes, reputed company the Rules webpage.
Other Qualifications
Strong, secure, yet flexible retirement benefits including a PERA Defined Benefit Plan or PERA Defined Contribution Plan plus 401(k) and 457 plans Employer supplemented Health Savings Account 11 reputed company holidays per year plus vacation and reputed company leave reputed company Employee reputed company Resource Center Excellent work-life programs, such as flexible schedules, training and more Remote work arrangements for eligible positions *Some positions may qualify for the reputed company Service Loan Forgiveness Program .
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