Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional

Job Summary

The Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP) is responsible for overseeing the implementation of each person's Staff Action Plan, monitoring progress, coordinating care, and ensuring quality services are provided in compliance with OPWDD regulations. The role is essentially acting as the primary leader in ensuring the best possible support for individuals with intellectual disabilities within their care. 

Essential Job functions

• Develop Individual Treatment Plans
  • Create personalized Staff Action Plans based on individual needs, goals, and preferences, including necessary supports and interventions as identified in their life plan.
• Treatment Plan Implementation and Training
  • Oversee implementation of treatment plans, ensuring direct support staff understand and properly implement plans, and provide ongoing training on best practices.
• Progress Monitoring
  • Regularly review progress towards goals, document observations, and make necessary plan adjustments. Schedule, attend, and participate in applicable meetings for clients.
• Documentation - ensure the following documents meet audit standards
  • Staff Actions Plans: Update every six months
  • LCEDs: Verify and maintain
  • IPOPs: Review and update at least biannually
  • Res-Hab Skills Trackers: Audit data for accuracy and completeness
  • Res-Hab Monthly Summaries: Submit on time to avoid financial penalties
  • Daily Billing Notes: Audit regularly for quality improvements
• Communication and Collaboration
  • Maintain open communication with families, guardians, other service providers, and relevant healthcare professionals. 
  • Act as a liaison between individuals, families, staff, and care coordination.
• SSI and SNAP Management
  • Initiate SSI/SNAP applications for new admits, including securing filing dates, completing SSA-11 forms, and participating in interviews.
  • Address lapses in payments, complete rep payee reports, and ensure compliance with SSI requirements.
  • Manage SNAP applications, conduct recertification interviews, and follow up on missing payments.
• Compliance with Regulations
  • Ensure that all services provided adhere to OPWDD and OMIG guidelines and standards.
• Incident Reporting and Documentation
  • Document and report any incidents or concerns related to the individuals in their care, take appropriate actions, and document findings.
• Quality Assurance
  • Monitor the quality of services delivered and identifying areas for improvement.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in the Human Services field
• Minimum one year of experience working with individuals with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities

Special Requirements

• Unrestricted, valid NYS driver’s license for a minimum of 1 year with a clean driving record and minimum insurance coverage that meets agency standards.
• CPR certification required or obtained within 60 days of hire.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

In addition to demonstrating the Hillside Professional Competencies of Communicates Effectively, Personal Excellence, Cultural Competence, Builds, and Leverages Relationships, and Optimizes Decision Making, the following occupational competencies must be demonstrated:

• Demonstrate the emotional competence and good judgment required to build productive, engaged children, youth, staff, and family relationships while implementing required rules, expectations, and routines.
• Ability to complete all required documentation in a timely fashion according to established policies and regulations. This is an essential function in order to facilitate the efficient and effective flow of information necessary for the program to be effectively managed and outcomes optimized.
• Ability to recognize and address escalating and dysregulated youth/adult behavior and utilize training provided in behavior management and Strategies for Crisis Intervention and Prevention (SCIP), including the use of physical interventions (holds).
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and recognize issues and situations requiring notification and communication with others.
• Demonstrate problem-solving and conflict-resolution skills with self and others.
• Ability to meet the highest standard for ethical and professional conduct towards all.

Physical Demands & Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that an employee must meet to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

• Must be able to work a variable schedule, including evenings and weekends
• The following physical demands are required:
  • Occasional sitting (up to 4 hours)
  • Occasional standing (up to 1 hour)
  • Occasional walking (up to 2.5 hours)
  • Occasional driving (up to 8 hours)
  • Continuous balancing (up to 8 hours)
  • Occasional balancing, bending, stooping, climbing, kneeling, pushing, pulling, reaching forward or down, reaching overhead, running, and twisting (up to 2.5 hours)
  • Weekly lifting up to 50 lbs. (community-based staff may be required to lift an empty wheelchair weighing up to 50 lbs.), 10-15 lbs. on a daily basis
  • Weekly carrying up to 55 lbs. approximately 10-100 ft., 10-15 lbs. on a daily basis.
• Manual dexterity is required, including the frequent ability to grasp in both hands and continuous use of fine manipulation skills in both hands (approximately 1-2.5 hrs.)
• This position requires onsite presence, with flexibility at leadership's discretion, and involves travel to multiple locations.
• Occasional exposure to changes in temperature, dust, fumes, gases, or chemicals is apparent.
• Protective clothing or equipment as required: close-toed shoes; protective shields, universal precaution PPE, and gloves for toileting and food preparation.
• Ability to change positions as needed.

SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS

May be required to physically restrain clients weighing between 50 and 200 lbs. and guide them safely to the floor. In some circumstances, restraints can last up to 15 minutes and may require repetition as necessary.

Salary : $21 - $32