Infant Toddler Development Specialist

Position Summary

Arnold Palmer Hospital's Developmental Center for Infants and Children is seeking a dedicated and experienced Infant Toddler Developmental Specialist (ITDS) to join our team.

As an ITDS, you will focus on delivering functional, routines-based interventions that are directly linked to evaluation and assessment findings, ensuring they align with the goals and outcomes outlined in the Individualized Family Support Plan (IFSP).

You will play a crucial role in conducting Multidisciplinary Team Developmental Evaluations for Central Florida Early Steps. This involves assessing the developmental needs of infants and toddlers within the birth to 3-year-old population and determining their eligibility for early intervention programs. Your expertise and knowledge in working with children from birth to 5 years old will be highly valuable in this position.

In addition to evaluations, you will collaborate with families to develop Family Centered Outcomes that address the unique needs of each child and their family. Based on the identified outcomes, you will make service recommendations and assist in formulating the Initial IFSP. Your ability to engage and support families throughout this process will be essential to ensure the delivery of comprehensive and effective early intervention services.

Must have ITDS Certification.

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 8:00am-4:30pm

Location:

601 W Michigan St, Orlando, FL 32805

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

* Designs learning environments and intervention strategies that promote child engagement in daily activities, functional independence, and social interaction across all developmental domains in a consultative model in the child's natural environment.
* Promotes maximum involvement of family members and child caregivers through successful implementation of adult learning principles and strategies.
* Responsible for developing IFSPs, along with the appropriate documentation, that is family-driven, culturally sensitive and based on consensus decision-making with the family and other team members.
* Utilizes evaluation and assessment information to formulate outcomes and to identify effective strategies, activities and resources that address those outcomes.
* Assists the family in identifying and utilizing opportunities to incorporate developmental intervention strategies into daily life activities that are natural and normal for the child and family.
* Consults with healing arts professionals such as Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists to implement the early intervention Plan of Care and ensure interventions are consistent with IFSP Outcomes.
* Designs and implements integrated interventions that focus on child's interest within the context of family preferences and daily routines and collaborates with team to determine need for assistive technology.
* Acts as a member of a multidisciplinary team to administer standardized evaluation/assessment instrument to determine Early Steps program eligibility and/or to monitor progress toward achieving desired outcomes.
* Interprets, summarizes and communicates the findings of the evaluation/assessment in verbal and written forms that may be easily understood by family members and other team members.
* Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
* Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions

* If the ITDS acts in a dual capacity as a Family Care Coordinator (ITDS/FCC) then he or she will also implement assessment strategies to determine family concerns, priorities and resources and provide continuous reviews of child progress in the acquisition and mastery of functional skills to reduce or overcome limitations from disabilities and developmental delays.
* Responsible for providing documentation of units/activities at a rate which fully accounts for all time worked, submits billing on time each week that meets Early Steps contract requirements, completes a Face-to-Face Family Needs Assessment with each newly referred family, completes the initial, 6 month update and annual IFSP on time, and ensure the Transition IFSP meeting is conducted at least 90 days prior to the child's third birthday.

Qualifications

Education/Training

Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in early childhood or early childhood/special education, child and family development, family life specialist, communication sciences, psychology, social work, or related field.

Licensure/Certification

Successful acquisition of the required Professional Early Intervention Competencies documented with a certificate of completion from an approved university or college ITDS coursework program or from successful completion of the required ITDS coursework as in-service modules documented in the Department of Health's online training. The ITDS will be required to complete all other requirements for approval as an Infant and Toddlers Early Intervention provider as set forth in the Early Intervention Provider Enrollment Handbook and the Program Plan and Operations Guide including Early Intervention Medicaid Enrollment

Experience

Extensive background in the area of early intervention with ages birth to 5 - Preferred

4 years of work experience as an ITDS

Education/Training

Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in early childhood or early childhood/special education, child and family development, family life specialist, communication sciences, psychology, social work, or related field.

Licensure/Certification

Successful acquisition of the required Professional Early Intervention Competencies documented with a certificate of completion from an approved university or college ITDS coursework program or from successful completion of the required ITDS coursework as in-service modules documented in the Department of Health's online training. The ITDS will be required to complete all other requirements for approval as an Infant and Toddlers Early Intervention provider as set forth in the Early Intervention Provider Enrollment Handbook and the Program Plan and Operations Guide including Early Intervention Medicaid Enrollment

Experience

Extensive background in the area of early intervention with ages birth to 5 - Preferred

4 years of work experience as an ITDS

Essential Functions

* Designs learning environments and intervention strategies that promote child engagement in daily activities, functional independence, and social interaction across all developmental domains in a consultative model in the child's natural environment.
* Promotes maximum involvement of family members and child caregivers through successful implementation of adult learning principles and strategies.
* Responsible for developing IFSPs, along with the appropriate documentation, that is family-driven, culturally sensitive and based on consensus decision-making with the family and other team members.
* Utilizes evaluation and assessment information to formulate outcomes and to identify effective strategies, activities and resources that address those outcomes.
* Assists the family in identifying and utilizing opportunities to incorporate developmental intervention strategies into daily life activities that are natural and normal for the child and family.
* Consults with healing arts professionals such as Speech Language Pathologists, Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists to implement the early intervention Plan of Care and ensure interventions are consistent with IFSP Outcomes.
* Designs and implements integrated interventions that focus on child's interest within the context of family preferences and daily routines and collaborates with team to determine need for assistive technology.
* Acts as a member of a multidisciplinary team to administer standardized evaluation/assessment instrument to determine Early Steps program eligibility and/or to monitor progress toward achieving desired outcomes.
* Interprets, summarizes and communicates the findings of the evaluation/assessment in verbal and written forms that may be easily understood by family members and other team members.
* Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
* Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.

Other Related Functions

* If the ITDS acts in a dual capacity as a Family Care Coordinator (ITDS/FCC) then he or she will also implement assessment strategies to determine family concerns, priorities and resources and provide continuous reviews of child progress in the acquisition and mastery of functional skills to reduce or overcome limitations from disabilities and developmental delays.
* Responsible for providing documentation of units/activities at a rate which fully accounts for all time worked, submits billing on time each week that meets Early Steps contract requirements, completes a Face-to-Face Family Needs Assessment with each newly referred family, completes the initial, 6 month update and annual IFSP on time, and ensure the Transition IFSP meeting is conducted at least 90 days prior to the child's third birthday.