Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional

About the role

The Cambridge Developmental Center seeks a dedicated and experienced individual to manage and coordinate habilitative programming for approximately 16-24 individuals with developmental disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Independently manages & coordinates overall development & implementation of client-based habilitative programing (e.g., individual program plan, individual behavior guidelines, etc.)
• Chairs the interdisciplinary team & coordinate services from all internal & external support services (e.g., speech, medical, pharmacy, social services, psychology, psychiatry, vocational, educations, recreational, occupational therapy, physical therapy, dental, dietary, etc.) in order to meet client needs & ensure quality care of care.
• Ensures all rendered services are therapeutic, compliant with rules (e.g., individual program plan) & effective, to promote habilitation of the individual.
• Follows up on recommendations, observes program implementation & recommends program changes.
• Formulates & coordinates the annual comprehensive functional assessment for each client (e.g., coordinating & verifying information from all necessary disciplines to meet client needs).
• Completes a comprehensive annual individual plan and monthly analysis of each client’s status, needs, UIR trends & recommendations.
• Calls & chairs special team meetings as clients need dictates.
• Covers input from all services & meeting minutes into an Individual program plan for each client & ensures that any discrepancies or conflicts between support services are resolved.
• Develops client training goals based upon team recommendation.
• Ensures documentation meets Medicaid & licensure standards& requirements, makes corrections & updates to deficiencies.
• Supervises assigned staff: Hires (interviews & makes selection), trains, orients; completes performance evaluations, signs request for leave forms.
• Participates in step 1 hearings & disciplinary hearings; recommends discipline.
• Author & develop consents for behavior implementation, and work with Health and safety to develop prevention plans.
• Ensures staff are trained in effective delivery of training techniques/methods, ensures habilitative services & documentation meet requirements (e.g., develops forms, reviews program to determine effectiveness/compliance, discusses individual progress with service providers); assures compliance (e.g., reviews standards, monitors unit, corrects deficient areas) with rules, regulations & policies (e.g., licensure, DDD Administrative Rules & policies).
• Conducts routine rounds of residential areas & other service facilities to ensure active treatment is administered as required (e.g., review staff/resident interaction, program/scenario implementation, rotation of attention, etc.) & ensure proper documentation of implementation; prepare for team meetings & collects data of resident progress; sets up regular & special meetings to discuss need for special programs & interventions.
• Works with program disciplines to establish individual goals & objectives & prioritization of goals & objectives.
• Write individual programs, changes to &/or modifications of programs on ongoing basis & corrections of deficiencies.
• Models appropriate interactions & interventions (e.g., teaching strategies, prompt hierarchies, behavior management techniques) with individuals & staff; work with other departments to facilitate transfers of individuals (e.g., recommends placement, visits, etc.).
• Provides information (e.g., individual progress, adjustment to new living area, program options) for discussion with families, guardians, &/or community agencies & county boards of developmental disabilities, etc.
• Provides information to pre-survey & survey teams (e.g., answers questions, locates & explains documents); participates in writing & implementing plans of compliance to correct cited deficiencies; recommends proposed changes in policies and procedures.
• Participates in planning meetings; may participate in community outreach activities (e.g., providing training, observation, meeting attendance); attends workshops/conferences, etc.
• Attends mandatory in-services & conducts training; serves on committees, acts for other QIDPs, as required; performs other duties within range & scope of position.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Medicaid/I.C.F./D.D. laws, rules, regulations & guidelines & state licensure standards*
• Department of developmental disabilities policies & developmental center policies, or department of youth services policies & juvenile facility policies*
• Supervisory principles & techniques;
• Employee training & development;
• Psychology;
• Sociology;
• Public relations;
• Special education;
• Rehabilitation counseling;
• Management.

Skills

• Use of calculator;
• Personal computer.

Major Worker Characteristics

• Knowledge of Medicaid/I.C.F./D.D. laws, rules, regulations & guidelines & state licensure standards*
• Department of developmental disabilities policies & developmental center policies, or department of youth services policies & juvenile facility policies*
• Supervisory principles & techniques;
• Employee training & development;
• Psychology;
• Sociology;
• Public relations;
• Special education;
• Rehabilitation counseling;
• Management.

Minimum Class Qualifications for Employment

• Per federal register, Vol. 53, No. 107, section 453.430, applicants must have at least one year of experience working directly with persons with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities & is one of the following: doctor of medicine or osteopathy, registered nurse, individual who holds at least a bachelor’s degree in professional human services category (e.g., Psychology, Education, Anthropology).