Qualified Intellectual Disabilities Professional
Current1. Ensures service design and delivery providing each consumer with an appropriate active treatment program. QIDP is the leader of the interdisciplinary team, consisting of professional and paraprofessional staff responsible for developing individual program plans for individuals. Specific duties include: ensuring the completion of a current and accurate comprehensive functional assessment, chairing the ISP meeting, authoring the ISP, ensuring the plan remains updated and ensures coordination with professional staff so each consumer receives the professional services needed to implement the active treatment program.2. Observe consumers, review data and progress, and revise programs based on consumer needs and performance. Ensures consistency among external and internal programs and disciplines to include ensuring that any discrepancies or conflicts between programmatic, medical, dietary, and vocation aspects of consumer's assessment and program are resolved.3. Ensures effective communication with consumer families. Available when needed for situations requiring attention/input of QIDP unless other arrangements for covering caseload are made. 4. Supervise the direct support staff as needed and appropriate for the purpose of ensuring each consumer's active treatment program is developed, implemented and monitored, continuously and aggressively as required by regulation. Provide in-service training, observations, monitor ship and evaluation of employee performance as needed and appropriate to ensure direct support staff are able to do the following: 1) Perform duties effectively, efficiently, and competently. 2) Demonstrate the skills and techniques necessary to administer interventions to manage the inappropriate behavior of consumers. 3) Demonstrate the skills and techniques necessary to implement the individual program plans for each consumer for who they are responsible.
