Coordinated Care CoordinatorPositions: Full Time Position Available Start Date: ImmediateSalary: $23.79/hr - $30.94/hr, commensurate with experienceAbout the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership:While Massachusetts is consistently ranked as one of the top states for education results in the country, we have one of the highest and most persistent opportunity gaps. The Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) - established in 2015 as a collaboration between Springfield Public Schools (SPS), the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and the Springfield Education Association (SEA) - seeks to improve the longitudinal life outcomes of the more than 5,000 students in our 16 middle and high schools.As a zone of schools within the city of Springfield, SEZP's approach draws on a deep and embedded partnership with the school district and local teachers' union, while harnessing the flexibility and innovation found in autonomous school models. As a result, each school within SEZP is accorded significant school-based autonomies - in curriculum, talent, calendar, schedule, and budget - while being held accountable for realizing achievement gains for historically marginalized students. In all of our work, SEZP is in pursuit of equity and anti-racism acknowledging the systemic oppression our students and families encounter daily and working to disrupt these provision gaps urgently and courageously.Job DetailsThe Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership (SEZP) is committed to building anti-racist schools by ensuring the work of equity is fully inclusive of and focused on our students of color, exceptional learners, emerging bilinguals, and all families across our schools. A central SEZP strategy for disrupting institutionalized racism lives in our innovation around Coordinated Care for high school students. The SEZP pioneered the Coordinated Care Model to reflect a medical model in which Coordinated Care Teams manage care rounds to diagnose, treat, and monitor students with chronic absenteeism and other needs that impact their equitable access to instruction long-range financial independence. The SEZP calls upon a skilled and passionate educator to lead a Coordinated Care Team at one of our SEZP high schools to dramatically scale this impactful model for our students. Job ResponsibilitiesThe Coordinated Care Coordinator will accomplish the following:
- Serve as a member of a high school Coordinated Care Team (CCT) that includes CCT managers and coordinators
- Support the Tier I and II treatment systems and collaborate with the Tier III multi-agency Critical Coordinated Care Team that includes both family and student supports and treatments
- Integrate restorative practices in the coordination of care for students
- Support data systems management for diagnostics, treatments, responses, and monitoring
- Work with other school-based teams in the effective deployment of treatments, necessary resources, and supports
- Enact anti-racist instructional practices that ensure students own and participate actively in their care
- Engage with families as partners to problem-solve care coordination
Position Qualifications
- Strong commitment to the philosophy and efficacy of providing a systems approach to care required
- Experience with restorative practices preferred
- Experience providing student support, mentoring, and restoration at the high school level or experience working with high school-age students preferred
- Requires 2-3 years of relevant experience
- Relevant bachelor's degree preferred
- Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
- Experience as an active anti-racist or advocate for equity preferred
If you meet some of the qualifications above, we encourage you to apply or reach out for more information. We know that historically marginalized groups - including people of color, women, people from working class backgrounds, and people who identify as LGBTQ - are less likely to apply unless and until they meet every requirement for a job. Therefore, we strongly encourage applications from educators with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities. We encourage you to reach out to Kelley Gangi at ...@sezp.org if you have questions about the role or your qualifications. We are happy to help you feel ready to apply!BenefitsSelection as an employee in the SEZP recognizes an individual for their outstanding vision, capacity, and commitment to anti-racist school communities. Staff joining the SEZP community are eligible for the same benefits (including retirement, health insurance) as other Springfield Public Schools staff.Application ProcessPositions will be filled on an ongoing basis but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible for these limited positions. Please contact Kelley (...@sezp.org) or ...@sezp.org with any questions.NONDISCRIMINATION EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, genetic information, ancestry, age, disability or military service or marital status. The Springfield Public Schools does not discriminate in admission to, access or treatment in its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, sex, gender identity, sex characteristics, sex stereotypes and other sex-based conduct, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, disability or homelessness.NOTICE OF SEX NONDISCRIMINATIONSpringfield Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination, including sex-based harassment, in any education program or activity that it operates, as required by Title IX and its regulations, including in admission and employment.Inquiries about Title IX may be referred to the Springfield Public Schools' Title IX Coordinator, ...@springfieldpublicschools.com, the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights at or both.The Springfield Public Schools Title IX Coordinator is Katie O'Sullivan, Senior Administrator of Human Resources, 1550 Main Street, Springfield, MA 01103, 413-###-#### ext. 55428, ...@springfieldpublicschools.com.Springfield Public School's sex nondiscrimination policy and grievance procedures can be located on the Springfield Public Schools website, www.springfieldpublicschools.com/non-discriminationTo report information about conduct that may constitute sex discrimination or make a complaint of sex discrimination under Title IX, please refer to ...@springfieldpublicschools.com