Description

Welcome to Rise Life Services!

RISE Life Services (an Aid to the Developmentally Disabled Company) provides a residential and supported living environment dedicated to empowering people with developmental disabilities and mental health challenges to RISE to their full potential. Our core values of quality, dignity, and respect serve as our guiding principles in everything we do.

Among our finest assets is our dedicated workforce; a diverse, knowledge-based team of professionals committed to offering the highest quality of services that are compassionately delivered and responsive to the needs of the individuals we serve and their families.

We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, which may include the following:

• $3,500 Sign On bonus
• Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance - Premier and nationally recognized providers
• Vacation/Personal/Sick Time Off
• Life Insurance
• Education Assistance
• 401K Retirement Plan
• Referral Bonus 
• Local company discounts
• Professional Development & Training opportunities

GENERAL STATEMENT OF DUTIES

Provides behavioral services to facilitate the optimal development of each resident and participates in staff training, program development and serves as a member of the interdisciplinary evaluation team.

• Participates in the interdisciplinary evaluation of individual residents and makes recommendations and discusses individual’s initiatives with interdisciplinary team/and or program director prior to implementation.
• Produces a weekly schedule that rotates time at each designated site. A minimum of two days or ten hours must be spent on site when residents are home, unless otherwise approved by the supervisor.
• Serves on the Human Rights Committee and Incident Review Committee
• Performs Functional Analysis of Behaviors before creating a Behavior Support Plan. This includes restrictive/intrusive interventions that shall function under the supervision of a licensed psychologist or licensed clinical social worker.
• Conducts data collection and analysis of behaviors each month for all programs, as well as complete clinical summary notes, updates graphs and monthly ITT progress notes. Updates supports in a timely manner and conducts necessary in-services and observations to assess efficacy.
• Creates a Trend Report semi-annually as to the status of restrictions and medications used in each individual’s behavior support plan.
• Performs staff observations with consumers to ensure proper implementation of BSP by remaining in where staff and individual interactions are naturally occurring.
• Attends psychiatric appointments for individuals in crisis
• Must maintain SCIP and CPR certification yearly
• Update Cognitive Section of annual CFA prior to meeting, participate in all annual CFA meetings
• Maintains accepted standards of confidentiality through HIPAA privacy act
• Remain current on new support system to aid in behavioral support (augmentative communication, behavior analysis, etc.).

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Graduate from an accredited college or university with a Master’s Degree from a program in a clinical or treatment field of psychology, social work, school psychology, or applied psychology as it relates to human development and clinical interventions, and documented training in assessment techniques and behavior support plan development. Knowledge of OPWDD and OMH regulations. Minimum of three years of direct clinical experience, one of which must be working with Mental Health population and one of which must be working with Developmentally Disabled Clients. Experience with Dually- Diagnosed individuals is preferred.

• VALID NYS Driver’s License

Rise Life Services is committed to excellence in diversity and the creation of an inclusive learning and working environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, pregnancy, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.