Early Intervention Specialist - The Dimock Center
Roxbury, MA 02119
About the Job
You are a caring, hard-working individual who thrives in a team environment and is committed to excellence. You have experience in a home or school setting and are comfortable interacting with children and families, as well as managing administrative responsibilities.
The Dimock Center is a federally qualified community health center that heals and uplifts individuals, families and communities. Our vision is to redefine the model of a healthy community by creating equitable access to comprehensive health care and education. We promote a culture of respect, excellence, equal opportunity, and commitment to our employees and the communities we serve.
Our Child and Family Services programs offer quality care, education and support to young children and their families.
Job Description
Essential Functions
- Provide service coordination including but not limited to: Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) development, eligibility assessment, timely transition, resource and referral services and ongoing family support
- Provide regular, collaborative clinical services to assigned EI clients as indicated by the IFSP across environments that are natural to the families’ routines
- Monitor and manage clinical timelines as indicated by the DPH Operational Standards and EOHHS
- Maintain client records through timely and thorough documentation of clinical services, through entry into the EICS (electronic record) and paper documentation
- Obtain parental consent for documented clinical activities
- Maintain ongoing collaboration and communication with the multi-disciplinary EI team
- Maintain caseload that allows for meeting assigned level of billable productivity
- Maintain timely and accurate entry of billing and corresponding documentation.
Competencies
- Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of typical and atypical infant toddler development within developmental domains, and maintains knowledge of related current research on brain development
- Ability to work effectively with parents, guardians and other adult family members to identify family needs, priorities and resources
- Ability to create individualized family interventions with regard for diverse populations, including a variety of races, cultures, creeds, sexual orientations and family constitutions
- Acts as a resource in individual discipline/ area of expertise in several contexts including: to other staff, in community and to families enrolled in the program
- Demonstrates effective documentation skills, is able to write and maintain progress notes, evaluation reports, service plans, and discharge reports as directed.
- Understands and executes effective service coordination for identified children, including interagency case coordination, monitoring of IFSP service delivery, transition/ discharge planning, arrangement for consultation/ auxiliary services and referral as needed
- Demonstrates effective written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
- Functions well as a member of an interdisciplinary team
- Demonstrates understanding of word processing, web based data entry, and email/ scheduling software
Work Environment
This job operates across multiple settings, including client homes, community settings (child cares, playgrounds, medical appointments), in an office environment, via telehealth (phone and video conferencing) and in a clinical center based setting with clients of diverse backgrounds, nationalities and ages.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
Early Intervention Clinicians provide clinical services at the center and in the community within program operating hours.
Required Education and Experience
- Advanced degree and licensure in fields as determined by the Department of Public Health Operational Standards as follows:
-Child Development/ Education
-Social Work
-Physical Therapy
-Occupational Therapy
-Nursing
-Mental Health Professions (Expressive Therapies, Counseling)
-Speech Language Pathology
-Music Therapy
- Related field with documented 300 hours of experience with children aged birth to three and 4 identified college courses related to child and family development
- Fluent in Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole, Haitian Creole, or other languages identified by the program as an area of need due to client population
Compensation: $52,000 - $78,000 plus benefits.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)