Duties Description

The Licensed Psychologist will have a direct impact on the quality of behavioral health care provided to the individuals receiving services from the Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD). High quality behavioral health care is essential to insuring that OPWDD can accomplish its Core Mission of helping people with developmental disabilities lead richer lives. This Licensed Psychologist position is pivotal to maintaining clinical competence and regulatory compliance and is responsible for the support and assessment of health and safety conditions and practices related to psychological, forensic, direct care, and other clinical services at both OPWDD and it's voluntary agencies. The biggest challenge our providers face, whether it is a large campus-based program or a small residential setting, is the challenging behavior of the individuals and staff's difficulty in successfully managing their behavior. With individuals moving from residential schools, residential treatment centers/foster care settings and other intensive treatment settings into the community, it is critical that psychologists have the knowledge, ability to support, and training to help these individuals transition into the community successfully to prevent recidivism into a more restrictive setting.

The licensed psychologist will augment and conduct clinical reviews of adult service plans for foster care youth and other individuals transitioning to adult services and allow for capacity to provide focused consultation on complex clinical cases to ensure appropriate discharge planning activities occur. This position requires the development of effective behavior support plans and effective staff training strategies for implementing the behavior support plans.

This position requires experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities who present with complex support needs, and in reviewing and monitoring delivery of plans of care, strong knowledge of the supports and services provided by OPWDD and the regulations guiding their implementation.
Seeking a candidate with background and understanding of programs and services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The focus of this Licensed Psychologist will be to augment and conduct clinical reviews of adult service plans for foster care youth transitioning to adult services, as well as. This position will have the following duties and responsibilities:

• Provide focused consultation on complex clinical cases to ensure appropriate discharge planning activities occur
• Support multiple other clinical functions and project management functions that are growing within the bureau
• Assist and guide transition planning, to include review of current assessment and clinical information to support the goal of ensuring the unique needs of the individual are understood and supported
• May include conducting assessments and/or consultation on assessment(s) as clinically indicated
• Collaborate with providers to help identify and build, as needed, the system capacity and services to create a successful transition plan
• Develop clinical tools to support foster care and other provider types to ensure they have the capacity, knowledge, and skills to serve individuals with I/DD successfully
• Provide training as well as ongoing technical assistance to address more unique or complex support needs of a given child/adolescent within a foster care setting or other provider settings
• Liaison with both voluntary, other state agencies and Council on Children and Families to reach shared goals and collaborative working relationships to address this unique population
• Assist in the development of practices and procedures for agencies to address the complex needs of children/adolescent/adults with I/DD as they transition into new environments of care
• Travel as needed to support individuals and providers
• Other duties as assigned to support the division and goals of the agency

• Travel percentage is an estimated average; actual travel time may vary to support the needs of the Bureau.

Additional Comments

Please note:

• The Office for People With Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) and it's Division of Statewide Services is committed to creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion. We believe that we are most effective in managing and improving our service system with a

diverse team of employees. With such a large workforce, we rely on the collective individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, self-expression, ideas
and talent that our employees bring to their work. This speaks to our culture, and is a key part of our successes. As we continuously recruit people for our
team, we welcome the unique contributions that applicants bring in terms of their education, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression,
nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.

• Preference will be given to OPWDD employees impacted by closures. If you are being impacted by closure, please indicate this on your resume/cover letter.
• In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State

Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an
excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your
employment.

• OPWDD is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.