Executive Service

INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INVESTIGATOR 1

Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Protection From Harm Division

Nashville, TN

$4,450 monthly

Closing Date: 07/08/2024

For more information visit the link below:

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This position may be eligible for a hybrid work schedule.

Who we are and what we do:

The Department of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (DIDD) is the state agency responsible for administering services and support to Tennesseans with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This is done in several ways, including Medicaid waiver, Home and Community Based Services (HCBS), State-operated ICF/IIDs, and the Family Support Program. DIDD administers services directly or through contracts with community providers. DIDD strives to partner with the people it supports and their family members and friends.
DIDD's Reportable Event Management Investigations Unit completes triage on all reported allegations and conducts internal administrative investigations into allegations of abuse, neglect, exploitation, unexplained serious injuries and questionable or suspicious deaths for people who receive services via 1915 (c) waiver, Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities (ICF/IID), CHOICES, ECF CHOICES, and Katie Beckett benefit programs.

Key Responsibilities:

Job responsibilities include receiving calls to the DIDD Abuse Hotline during State Operating Hours (Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM CST), participation in On-Call Investigator rotations for hotline calls, triaging calls reported to the REM Intake Coordinators, and triaging events reported via Reportable Event Form (REF) as scheduled. This position's primary responsibility is to triage allegations reported via the DIDD hotline or Reportable Event Forms (REFs) which may include, but is not limited to: collecting documentation, conducting telephonic interviews, and completing SharePoint entries.

Required Experience:

• Experience: One year of professional investigative or professional work with Individuals with Developmental or Intellectual disabilities.
• Substitution of Education for Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in Social Work or other, relevant behavioral science may substitute for the required experience.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Education equivalent to graduation from a standard high school and one year of professional investigative or professional work experience with persons with IDD.

Substitution of Education for Experience: Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree in Social Work or other, relevant behavioral science may substitute for the required experience.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the States policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that persons race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.