The Assistant Director is responsible for performing a wide variety of therapy and/or evaluation services and assists in the management functions of the company as directed by the Director of Clinical Services.

CORE JOB DUTIES include:

Strategy and Planning:

1. Assists Director of Clinical Services in developing effective clinical operations and ensures staff compliance to those operating standards.
2. Assists Director of Clinical Services with proficiently auditing documentation to ensure compliance to company policies and federal/state regulations:
   1. Assessment Best Practices
   2. Integrated practices
   3. Appropriate IEP development and execution
   4. Appropriate school interactions
3. Monitors Lead Clinician by regularly monitoring therapy and/or assessments to ensure quality services are delivered, including Quality Control Checks of reports per company procedure.

1. Monitors Lead Clinician with effectively providing therapy and/or assessments in the field.
2. Monitors Lead Clinician with effectively providing caseload management.

1. Creates staff onboarding/training program and monitors Lead Clinician with effectively collaborating with HR to hire/train new or current staff of changes in operating standards. Evaluates team to determine areas of need/support on an ongoing basis and helps to develop training in respective areas.
2. Monitors Lead Clinician with assisting HR in onboarding training for new hires and returning staff.

1. Monitors Lead Clinician with assisting HR in closeout procedures.
2. Conduct interviews for new hires with Lead Clinician
3. Assist in Mid-Year and End-Of-Year reviews.

Acquisition and Development

1. Make recommendations for the improvement and growth of DAS clinical practices.

1. Remain current with the latest legal updates and company policies by attending all mandatory trainings.

Operational Management

Clinical Expectations:

1. Billable hours1 - 50% (i.e., 20 hours)

1. Administration hours2 – 50%(i.e., 20 hours) Recommended
2. Autism Evaluation Example

¹ Evaluations, Therapy, Consultation, ARD meetings (only one attending), Consultation, Folder Review

² Internal training, weekly leadership meetings, weekly departmental meetings, onboarding, supervision, running and reviewing reports, Quality Control Checks

Onboarding:

1. Billable (10 hours) - Team play based evaluation, debriefing of evaluation, cognitive, achievement, report writing
2. Admin – Quality Control Check of report, meeting with clinician to review the report, peer consultation (e.g., LSSP and LSSP)

Quality Control Guidelines:

1. New Employees:
   1. A Quality Control Check should be conducted for the first 10 reports and first 10 ARDs (ARD prep). A determination is made on whether additional training or support is needed after the first 10.
2. All Employees
   1. A Quality Control Check should be conducted monthly (i.e., spot checks – 1 report chosen at random for each clinician)4

1. Quality Control Checks should only take up to 45 minutes per report. If necessary, schedule a feedback meeting to review observations. The clinician is responsible for making the changes and finalizing the report.

Departmental Meetings:

1. Minimum expectation: 2 times a month for an hour –Lead clinician will facilitate meeting; Assistant Director attends and provides input as needed

1. Provide Lead Clinician with a list of recommended evidence-based practice focal points.
2. Monitors Lead Clinician with addressing the following during the meetings:
   1. Pressing campus issues
   2. Caseload updates
   3. Positive feedback on experiences
   4. Opportunities for service expansion
   5. Company-wide changes
   6. Case consultation
   7. Any additional pertinent information
   8. Evidence Based Practice (at least 15 minutes)
3. Review agenda for each meeting5

Individual Supervision:

³ Department specific training should occur over a period of two days (up to 14 hours)

⁴ The feedback from the Quality Control Checks will be considered during the mid-year and end of year evaluations

⁵ The agenda will serve as documentation that pertinent issues/changes were addressed to the department

Required Reporting:

Data required for Mid-Year and End-of-Year Evaluations:

1. Efficiency (amount of time to complete reports)-
   1. Lead will monitor WIP on a weekly basis and use the company standards for completion time of evaluations
2. Monitors Lead Clinician with timeliness and accuracy of Ebillity entries
   1. Friday & Monday (TBD)

Identify Opportunities for Increasing Revenue:

1.  During department meetings, gather information from clinicians on campus level needs.

1. Assistant Director is responsible for following up with campus representative to confirm campus needs.
2. Director of Clinical Services and Director of Business Operations will finalize details with the campus representative and provide an addendum to the service agreement.

Resource Planning:

1. New hire assignments should be planned/discussed with Director of Clinical Services and Director of Business Operations. This will be finalized by both directors.
2. Assignment changes should be planned/discussed within the departmental meeting. Draft of changes should be submitted to Director of Clinical Services for final approval.

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