TSS Worker

The Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention (EIBI) program is now hiring a TSS Worker!!

This mobile role serves children birth to 6 years of age who have been diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Responsibilities in this role include providing 1:1 treatment and treatment planning, documenting progress notes, and building rapport with patients, visitors, teachers, parents, and external agencies. This role is a mobile role; therefore, you will be required to travel to community locations (preschools, daycares, homes, etc) to provide therapy sessions. Each day will consist of 2, three-hour therapy sessions. This is a Monday through Friday daylight position. The ideal hire for this position will have ABA experience, but not required.

Responsibilities:

·       Collaborate with other members of the multidisciplinary treatment team and other professionals working in the home or in other community settings and participate in inter-agency service planning meetings, when possible.

·       Provide direct mental health services for children and adolescents (under 21 years of age) in their home and/or community setting who are on the verge of an acute crisis or in the midst of a chronic cycle of major crises which places the patient at-risk of psychiatric hospitalization, out-of-home placement, and/or a more restrictive educational setting.

·       Inform supervisor and treatment team promptly of any unexpected or unusual change in client functioning, i.e., behavior, family stressors, living situation, etc.

·       Assist parents in the implementation of behavioral programs designed by behavioral specialist and/or primary clinician.

·       Provide crisis intervention, immediate behavioral reinforcements, emotional support, time-structured activities, time-out procedures, passive restraint (when necessary), and additional psychosocial rehabilitation activities as prescribed in the treatment plan.

·       Attend periodic staff development training via W.P.I.C.

·       Support family’s efforts to stabilize the child or adolescent and promote age-appropriate behavior by working with the family.

·       Follow the individualized treatment plan established for the child or adolescent.

·       Provide 1:1 interventions to a child or adolescent at home, school, day care, YMCA, emergency room, other community-based program, or community setting when the behavior without this intervention would require a more restrictive treatment or educational setting.

·       Attend all mandatory treatment team meetings.

·       Assist teachers in the implementation of behavioral programs designed by behavioral specialist and/or primary clinician.

·       Provide for confidentiality and demonstrate courteous, cooperative, respectful behavior towards children, adolescents, and their families.

·       Maintain precise records of all patient contacts and meetings and report this information accurately and efficiently to supervisors and treatment team.