Administrative ECDS/Compliance Specialist

About the role

The Administrative Early Childhood Developmental Specialist (ECDS)/Compliance Specialist position will assume complete responsibility for the classrooms, including supervision of all Lead Teachers, Classroom Technicians, and Lead Teacher/ECDSs working in the classrooms. The Admin ECDS is responsible for ensuring all required classroom documentation, including the annual Individualized Treatment Plan, is timely and accurate. This position will ensure the appropriate developmental testing is completed on all new/potential patients and annually for enrolled patients. This position will also ensure appropriate habilitation services in areas of cognition, communication, social/emotional, motor and adaptive skills; or to reinforce skills learned and practiced in occupational, physical, and/or speech therapy.

Responsibilities

• Audit policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all regulations determined by regulatory agencies
• Develop lesson plans and distribute them to the classrooms a month in advance, and reviews them with the classroom staff
• Ensure the Tally Sheets are being completed as scheduled and checked for accuracy on Monday for the previous week, but a minimum of monthly
• Create and update Individualized Treatment Plans (ITP) for each EIDT patient within 1 week of enrollment and annually thereafter and distributes them to classroom staff as appropriate
• Update treatment plans, goals and objectives and distribute to classroom staff as appropriate
• Schedule and coordinate ITP meetings at a minimum of annually
• Programmatic management/supervision of the educational classrooms and classroom staff as it relates to implementation of each patient’s ITP
• Assists with day-to-day staffing needs and ensure appropriate supervision and adult-to-child ratios are maintained at all times
• Assists with the day-to-day coordination of patient care, including maintaining all documentation while the patient is enrolled in the Center
• Works with the Patient Care Coordinator and other administrative staff to oversee and monitor all aspects of coordinating patient care
• Assists with the hiring and training of new classroom staff, along with mentoring existing classroom staff
• Assists the Center Director with hiring and training new classroom staff
• Assists the Center Director with training and mentoring existing classroom staff, ensuring they meet the minimum of 15 hours annually of approved PDR trainings
• Assists the Center Director in issuing disciplinary action to classroom staff
• Assumes responsibility for the entire Center and staff in the absence of the Center Director
• Assists in unloading/loading the vans
• Performs some housekeeping/janitorial functions as needed

Qualifications

• BSE in Early Childhood Education or a bachelor's degree
• At least one of the following: Current Certification in Arkansas For Early Childhood or Early Childhood Special Education, current child development associate's certificate, current birth to pre-K credential, or documented experience working with children with special needs and twelve (12) hours of completed college courses in early childhood, child development, special education, elementary education, or child and family studies
• Five (5) years of experience in Early Childhood Education or related field preferred