General

• Provide direct care services as needed, including counseling, ADL training, personal care, medical, dietary, social, recreational, financial, habilitative, and other support
• Ensure the health, safety, and wellness of the people supported
• Support intimate care functions
• Build and maintain positive relationships
• Participate in developing treatment plans
• Provide crisis intervention and management
• Complete mandatory training and apply soft skills
• Assist people with I/DD in maximizing their strengths, interests, and abilities through teaching, self-advocacy, and emotional support
• Facilitate community integration, recreational activities, and socialization
• Complete documentation for compliance and billing
• Train and present to a team
• Take on additional tasks and complete job-related duties as needed

Direct Support Professional

Behavior Specialist

• Assess habilitative, behavioral, and psychiatric needs of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Conduct behavioral and habilitative assessments, functional behavior assessments, observations, standardized testing, and data collection
• Analyze data and research related syndromes and conditions using DSM-5, ICD-10, and DM-ID
• Develop individualized habilitative and behavior support plans using proactive and evidence-based interventions
• Develop plans involving medication, environmental modifications, SCIP-R physical interventions, and mechanical restraints when appropriate
• Obtain required approvals and consents before implementing interventions
• Establish baselines and design data collection systems to monitor progress
• Direct and oversee day-to-day data collection by program staff and ensure monthly summaries
• Modify plans based on monitoring, assessment, and individual needs
• Maintain required paperwork, communications, documentation, billing, and meeting records
• Train direct care staff and management using the Explain Model Observe Evaluate system
• Conduct specialized training on I/DD, diagnoses, symptoms, behaviors, and interventions
• Evaluate and provide feedback on staff performance and clinical implementation
• Support staff and leadership during crisis situations and recommend supports
• Mentor Assistant BISs and program designees in clinical and data-collection skills
• Serve as clinical team leader in interdisciplinary meetings, case reviews, person-centered meetings, and monthly BIS meetings

YAI

Direct Support Professional

Behavior Intervention Specialist – BIS