Are you searching for the chance to help strengthen support for individuals across our local communities? Apply for this Intellectual Disabilities Program Specialist position with the Westmoreland County Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (BHDS) office, located in downtown Greensburg behind the Courthouse. With our team, you will administer, plan, coordinate, implement, monitor, and provide technical assistance for the Intellectual Disabilities/Autism (ID/A) program. This includes conducting quality assessments as well as helping providers complete qualification and risk screening processes
Westmoreland County offers excellent benefits including health/vision insurance, vacation days after one year of service, personal days, sick days, and paid holidays. Apply now and utilize your knowledge of current best practices providing social, emotional, economic, and health related assistance to people with Intellectual Disabilities/Autism to make a difference with us!
This position plays an important role in monitoring service quality, assisting providers, and supporting key processes within the ID/A system. Your work will promote consistency, safety, and teamwork across our service network. As a County Intellectual Disabilities Program Specialist 1, you will perform the following duties:
- Quality Assurance Management: Monitor provider performance for quality and compliance; review data, create summary reports of findings, support corrective actions, and track outcomes
- Provider Support: Provide ongoing guidance, direction, and technical assistance to new and existing providers and Support Coordination Organization staff in multiple areas including qualification, individual support plan review, and more
- Risk Screening: Review data and participate in meetings to help assess any level of health, safety, regulatory or financial risk for providers
- Incident Response: Review and investigate incidents within required timeframes to ensure individual health and safety, and to give effective direction to providers
- Stakeholder Communication: Act as a program liaison between the ID/A system, internal partners, external organizations and community stakeholders; participate in community outreach events as needed
- Service Authorization Review: Approve or disapprove services in individual support plans according to regulations and requirements
Work Schedule and Additional Information:
- Full-time employment
- Work hours are 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM, Monday - Friday, with a 30-minute lunch. Occasional need to work or attend meetings after hours or on weekends. Compensation provided.
- Telework: You may have the opportunity to work from home (telework) part-time, up to three days per week, after successful completion of a six month probationary period and director approval. In order to telework, you must have a securely configured high-speed internet connection and work from an approved location inside Pennsylvania. If you are unable to telework, you will have the option to report to the headquarters office in Greensburg. The ability to telework is subject to change at any time. Additional details may be provided during the interview.
- Salary: In some cases, the starting salary may be non-negotiable.
- You will receive further communication regarding this position via email. Check your email, including spam/junk folders, for these notices.
QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Experience and Training Requirements:
- Two years of professional experience in the field of intellectual disabilities, and a bachelor's degree; or
- An equivalent combination of experience and training..
Other Requirements:
- You must meet the PA residency requirement. For more information on ways to meet PA residency requirements, follow the link and click on Residency Guidelines.
- You must be able to perform essential job functions.
Legal Requirements:
- You must pass a background investigation.
- A conditional offer of employment will require a drug screening.
- This position falls under the provisions of the Child Protective Services Law.
- Under the Law, a conditional offer of employment will require submission and approval of satisfactory criminal history reports including, but not limited to, PA State Police clearance, PA Child Abuse history clearance, and FBI Fingerprint clearance.
How to Apply:
- Resumes, cover letters, and similar documents will not be reviewed, and the information contained therein will not be considered for the purposes of determining your eligibility for the position. Information to support your eligibility for the position must be provided on the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education).
- If you are claiming education in your answers to the supplemental application questions, you must attach a copy of your college transcripts for your claim to be accepted toward meeting the minimum requirements. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.
- Your application must be submitted by the posting closing date. Late applications and other required materials will not be accepted.
- Failure to comply with the above application requirements may eliminate you from consideration for this position.
- All application materials and interview responses must reflect the applicant’s own experience, qualifications, and work. Applicants may use generative AI tools for preparation purposes only. Use of AI to misrepresent or falsify information, or to assist during interviews, is not permitted. Review the Guidance for Generative AI Tools & Job Seekers for additional information.
Veterans:
- Pennsylvania law (51 Pa. C.S. §7103) provides employment preference for qualified veterans for appointment to many state and local government jobs. To learn more about employment preferences for veterans, go to www.pa.gov/agencies/employment/how-to-apply.html and click on Veterans.
Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS):
- 711 (hearing and speech disabilities or other individuals).
If you are contacted for an interview and need accommodations due to a disability, please discuss your request for accommodations with the interviewer in advance of your interview date.
The Commonwealth is an equal employment opportunity employer and is committed to a diverse workforce. The Commonwealth values inclusion as we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most qualified people to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, union membership, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, AIDS or HIV status, disability, or any other categories protected by applicable federal or state law. All diverse candidates are encouraged to apply.
- Completing the application, including all supplemental questions, serves as your exam for this position. No additional exam is required at a test center (also referred to as a written exam).
- Your score is based on the detailed information you provide on your application and in response to the supplemental questions.
- Your score is valid for this specific posting only.
- You must provide complete and accurate information or:
- your score may be lower than deserved.
- you may be disqualified.
- You may only apply/test once for this posting.
- Your results will be provided via email.