Job Details Job Location: Main Office - Denver, CO Position Type: Full Time Salary Range: $71,140.00 - $84,500.00
We value an equitable and inclusive workplace and seek candidates with diverse backgrounds and abilities.
Why work at Rocky Mountain Human Services?
You will have the opportunity to contribute to an organization that is dedicated to embracing the power of community to support individuals and families in creating their future.
RMHS provides great benefits suchstrong>:
- Employer paid medical options, dental, and vision benefits
- Generous paid time off such as vacation, sick, personal, and holidays
- Life and disability insurance
- Tuition reimbursement (full-time employees only)
- Mileage reimbursement
- 403(B) with company match
- Flex Spending Account for Health and Dependent Care Costs
- Employee assistance program
Position Purpose
The clinical evaluator will conduct evaluations and provide hearing screening for children birth to three years old who are being evaluated for Part C Early Intervention services and may work with children birth to 18 who are not enrolled in Early Intervention. The clinical evaluator will work with clients to provide Part C eligibility evaluations. They will participate in a transdisciplinary team (OTs, PTs, SLPs, DIs, etc.) for Early Intervention caseload as a developmental expert, as a resource to peers, and as an advocate for the needs of the individual client. The clinical evaluator will report to the EIE Clinical Team Lead and/or the EIE Program Manager in the Developmental & Behavioral Health Department as part of the Early Intervention Evaluation Entity for the city and county of Denver, Colorado.
Essential Duties
- Provides Part C eligibility evaluations in office locations, virtually, and in daycares/homes as needed.
- Writes timely and complete evaluation reports and other documentation needed to provide high quality services and meet funder, regulatory, and organizational standards.
- Provides consultation to families, other service providers, and service coordinators regarding the communication functioning of children.
- Effectively communicates evaluation results, eligibility determination, and strategies that are functional for the child’s and family’s routines and are consistent with a Primary Service Provider model.
- Works with the Children’s Clinical team to identify and provide programs and services for infants and young children with developmental delays.
- Assists the Children’s Clinical team with developing and implementing effective procedures for programs and services.
- Assists in identifying needs for training and assists in the provision of training.
- Works with supervisor to provide services that accommodate client needs and fulfill billable hours expectations as set by the department.
- Works with supervisor to ensure that documentation is consistent with needs of funders.
- Provides culturally responsive services to a diverse population.
- Performs other clinical or administrative duties as assigned by supervisor.
- Works collaboratively with other Transdisciplinary Team members to provide best practice services to infants and toddlers with developmental delays.
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of typical child development as well as children with developmental delays and disabilities.
- Knowledge of Early Intervention systems at local, state, and national levels, especially standards of practice.
- Ability to work well with complex family issues.
- Ability to understand the needs of a range of disabilities.
- Knowledge of life-span issues, including typical and atypical early human development.
- Knowledge of family social, emotional, financial, psychological, and cultural issues.
- Knowledge of human behavior and performance, and individual differences in ability, personality, and interests.
- Knowledge of standards of care for toddlers and young children with autism.
- Knowledge of regulatory agency standards of practice.
- Ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking and writing so that others will understand.
- Skill in giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, and asking appropriate questions.
Minimum Qualifications
- Two years of experience working with infants, toddlers, and young children with developmental delays.
- Master’s Degree in a related field.
- Licensure to practice in the state of Colorado.
Preferred Qualifications
- Completion of the required state trainings for Early Intervention Providers in Colorado.
- Registered with the Early Intervention database (EI Portal).
- Five years of experience in working with infants and young children with developmental delays.
- Bi-lingual, Spanish speaking.
- Proficiency in feeding evaluations and therapy.
- Evaluation, treatment, and intervention of medically fragile infants or toddlers and experience with children referred from the NICU.
- Experience with assistive technology.
- Experience in 3rd party reimbursement documentation and procedures.
- Registered and current with Committee for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH).
- Current Medicaid license.
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