What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Clinical Manager position at Judson Center?
POSITION DESCRIPTION
Autism Services
Job Title: Associate Clinical Manager
Reports to: Program Director
Location: Flint, MI
FLSA Status: Full-Time, Exempt
Our Mission: To provide expert, comprehensive services in southeastern Michigan that strengthen children, adults, and families impacted by abuse and neglect, autism, developmental, behavioral and physical health challenges so they can achieve whole health, well-being and maximum potential.
General Acknowledgement:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and /or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Job Summary:
The Associate Clinical Manager is responsible for direct supervision of all BCBAs, Behavior Specialists, or BCaBAs and oversight related to performance, quality, compliance and operations of all Behavior Services at assigned Autism Connections locations. These services include: ABA, Behavior Consults, and community outreach/trainings.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Supervises BCBA level clinicians at the site and responsible for direct service hours based on size of clinical team.
- Oversees implementation of ABA program policies and procedures to ensure that services that are client focused, consistent, and delivered in a manner meets agency and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain QBS trainer certification and participate in required Judson Center trainings for Judson Center staff member.
- Supports Clinical Manager in budgetary process including establishing and achieving productivity goals and revenue targets.
- Assists and support in hiring, training, supervision, and evaluation of all Autism Connection personnel and direct reports.
- Agency contact with universities with oversight for BCBA Graduate Student Fieldwork supervisors.
- Oversees monitoring and compliance including but not limited to: documentation checks, staff internal credentialing, external credentialing, billable hour requirements, staff training, clinical audits, and monthly/quarterly reporting in accordance with regulatory/contractual mandates.
- Ensures the Behavior Services programs meet all contract, accreditation and regulatory requirements.
- Develops positive working relationships with governmental bodies, funders, advocacy groups, schools and other stakeholders.
- Overall management, direction, coordination, clinical oversight and evaluation of the center in a manner consistent with person and family-centered principles of service delivery.
- Participates in the development and implementation of strategic growth plans for Autism Services programs.
- Assures staff are appropriately trained, credentialed and privileged on an on-going basis as required for effective and/or regulatory/contractually mandated program and clinical services delivery.
- Works to establish best-practice and/or evidence-based program logic models with external subject experts.
- Ensures billable hours are met monthly by all supervisees holding a caseload through monthly billable audits.
- Participates in the development, review and intervention to support Autism Connection Key Performance Indicators.
- Participates in all required trainings
- Attends all scheduled team meetings
- Completes all other assignments or duties as assigned
Job Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Master’s Degree and Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- Minimum of 3 years of experience working as a BCBA with individuals who have Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Ability to supervise staff in a manner that promotes staff growth and development
- A minimum of 3 years of supervisory experience, preferred
- Effective verbal/written communication and presentation skills necessary to interact with a variety of internal and external constituencies.
- Demonstrated competency in computer skills as well as ability to use standard business applications (e.g. Excel, Powerpoint, and Word).
- Ability to gather, analyze and interpret data for use in program planning and evaluation.
- Ability to provide culturally competent services that shows sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.
Education, Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
- Master’s Degree and Board Certified Behavior Analyst
- State of Michigan Licensed BCBA
- Valid Michigan driver’s license and insurance, use of own vehicle
Working Conditions:
- Generally an office environment
- Non-Traditional hours including 24/7 availability to staff, including weekends and holidays.
- May work with children, teens or young adults with challenging behavior including aggression.
- Ability to travel and attend meetings and functions at various hours
- Job travel, utilizing personal vehicle with mileage
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to react and move quickly to respond to impulsive movement of clients (children and teenagers with autism) and remain alert and energetic during therapy sessions.
- Must be able to lift up to 20 pounds and lift up to 50 pounds infrequently.
- Frequently required to walk, stand and sit.
- May be required to bend, kneel, squat, crawl, pivot, and sit on floor throughout the work day.
- Must be able to run or quickly move short distances (up to100 feet) to catch or block clients (children and teenagers with autism)
- Must be able to use physical management techniques, including single or two person restraints, to help manage behavior of clients (children and teenagers with autism)
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Direct Reports:
Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Behavior Specialist, BCaBA
Judson Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer
