Basic Purpose:
The Early Interventionist is a qualified specialist in Early Intervention Services, serving children from birth to five years and their families. The relationship between the Early Interventionist and the parents/caregivers is the key to quality service delivery. The Early Interventionist works with a multidisciplinary team of the family, professionals, and others interested in ensuring needs are addressed.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in early childhood education, elementary education, special education, human services or allied health from an accredited college or university.
- Have experience in early childhood development, disabilities, or working with infants and toddlers.
Minimum Work Experience:
- Prefer applicants with an understanding of service coordination, program administration, and interagency collaboration.
- Effective verbal communication and efficient writing skills.
Must be flexible, dependable, and punctual and have the ability to manage time efficiently.
Compensation and Benefits:
- The pay range is $16 – $20 per hour
- Employee benefits package offered
Other:
- Within one month of initial employment, must submit an application for the South Carolina Infant Toddler Credential.
- Must complete all credential requirements within 90 days of initial employment.
Essential Duties/Core Job Functions:
- Assist the family of an eligible child in understanding the special needs of the child and enhancing the child’s development, i.e. special instruction/family training.
- Plan and implement developmentally appropriate activities in the child’s natural environments with the child and caregiver and facilitate learning about the child’s development within the family.
- Coordinate activities to ensure the child receives age-appropriate assessments in the local community with the family and other service providers or multidisciplinary team.
- Develop, coordinate, review and revise the Family Service Plan/Individual Service Plan addressing family and child strengths and needs identified by the family and their multidisciplinary team.
- Ensure that the family members understand and agree with the activities, training methods, and interventions.
Provide the family with information and instructions regarding areas of intervention. - Provide special instruction/family training to the family, child, and others involved with the child at locations and frequencies established in the FSP/IFSP.
- Provide resources to assist family members to meet their child’s special needs.
- Coordinate transitions to and from other community services (i.e. between early intervention and public school, Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care in the community).
- Schedule and complete the annual/initial FSP/IFSP taking into account the schedules of all plan participants.
Completes initial and follow up assessments per Baby Net and DDSN standards. - Document all aspects of early intervention activities including: written plans, reports, progress and follow-up towards outcomes.
- Sign all service notes, special instruction/summary sheets, and FSP/IFSP.
- Monitoring Medicaid eligibility status for all waiver consumers.
- Report activity on the Individual Service Report (ISR).
- Develop waiver budgets and revision.
- Sign annual re-certifications for waiver participants.
- Attend interagency staffing and meetings.
- Attend court ordered hearings or other legal proceedings.
- Purging Files.
- Maintain all files to comply with DDSN, Baby Net, and Medicaid Waiver standards.
Other:
- Demonstrating the ability to meet deadlines.
- Demonstrating respect for children with disabilities by demonstrating the ability to listen and advocate for what their circle of support want, as well as promptly reporting any dissatisfaction they may have to management.
- Maintaining confidentiality of consumer information and releasing information to others only on a “need to know” basis and with proper release forms as required.
- Maintain a good relationship with children and their circle of support while respecting their diverse ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
- Using a person-centered approach and offering choices to allow families or guardians to guide and choose their own services.
- Demonstrating professionalism in the work place by understanding and adhering to the agency’s policies and procedures, managing conflicts tactfully, following the chain of command when seeking resolution of concerns or complaints, dressing in an appropriate manner, arriving at all meetings promptly, and returning all phone calls to consumers, families or other professionals in a prompt and courteous manner.
- Must maintain auto insurance and automobile to make weekly home visits.
Machine or Equipment Operated:
- General office equipment: fax, copier, computer, printer.
- Must have a computer, printer, internet services, phone, and working automobile, along with automobile insurance.
Working Conditions:
- 40 hour work week. Evening and weekends is possible to meet personal preferences of the consumer/guardian or advocate.
Supervision Received:
- Early Intervention Supervisor
Relationships or contacts with others (exclude supervisor and those supervised):
- Children and their circle of support, medical professionals, therapists, equipment providers, other agency personnel.
Supervisory Responsibilities (List the number, titles, and organization of employees supervised):
- None