ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (include but are not limited to):

Behavior Standard – 50% of Position

 Maintains a positive work atmosphere by acting and communicating in a manner so that you get along
with customers, clients, co-workers, and management and families.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

 To provide coordination of care for children diagnosed or suspected of ASD and their families upon
receiving an in-house referral. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

a. Meet with EEC teachers, center managers, FSA, Health/Nutrition, ECS, and mental health specialists to
review in house referral.

b. Complete classroom observation(s) of child.

c. Contact family to introduce themselves, explain their role, and discuss the child concerns. Complete
necessary paperwork to refer to LEA, ESNG BCBA, or outside evaluator as necessary.

d. Serve as the liaison between the family, EEC team, and referral source including ESNG ABA Program.
Provide pediatricians or primary care physicians and other medical specialists with copies of screening,
assessments, or evaluations with written parental consent.

e. Assists families in acquiring resources regarding paperwork, insurance, and community supports.

f. Coordinate the IEP or IFSP meeting with the family, LEA, and ESNG staff. Participate in IFSP/IEP with
family, LEA, ESNG BCBA. Assist in the implementation and monitoring of the IFSP with the
parent/legal guardian(s). Document all direct and indirect contacts with families and service providers in
the clinical record (progress notes) following the format required by the Local Lead Agency and ESNG.

g. Conduct an informal review of the IFSP/IEP, including six (6) month review, with the parent/legal
guardian and service providers. Documentation will be made of this meeting with the family, including
discussing services related to the IFSP/IEP from provider reports. Original progress reports will be
submitted for inclusion in the primary record within ten (10) days of meeting.

h. Ensure that a six (6) month review is completed on each assigned child with documentation submitted for
the primary chart within ten (10) days of review.

i. Coordinate an Annual Review meeting with the LEA, family, and services providers.

j. Meet and communicate regularly with the parent/legal guardian, conducting these contacts using a variety
of face-to-face, telephone, written correspondence, and other methods including team meetings to ensure that the family is well-informed and an active participant in the implementation of the IFSP/IEP.

k. Facilitates the transition activities within and from the ESNG ECE program for eligible children to not only
Part B services but also, childcare, Early Head Start, and Head Start and or other community programs and
services as part of a transition plan. Document, in progress notes, all transition activities and ensure that all
children have a transition plan prior to their fifth birthday. Introduce the transition planning and satisfaction
surveys when available.

l. Provide classroom support to children diagnosed with ASD or suspected or ASD that do not receive internal
ABA services as appropriate. To include, but not limited to, crisis prevention program services.

m. Maintains fulltime caseload as defined by the organization.

n. To refrain at all times from divulging any information concerning the child and/or family to an unauthorized
person without the informed written consent of the responsible parent/legal guardian in accordance with all
applicable federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

o. To provide monthly documentation of all contacts and coordination of care for each individual child/family
receiving service coordination. To notify the organization, when informed, of any planned or recommended
changes in the delivery of services to eligible children prior to implementing an changes, including the
termination of services prior to the period of duration as reflected in the IFSP/IEP.

p. Schedule IFSP/IEP meetings (including initial, reviews, annual and transition) to the maximum extent
appropriate, at times during which all IFSP members can meet.

PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS

 The ability to stand for sustained periods of time.
 The ability to sit for sustained periods of time.
 The ability to walk for sustained periods of time including responding quickly to safety concerns
 The ability to use hands and fingers to feel, operate a computer, and perform picking, pinching and whole hand
or arm handling tasks.
 The ability to climb stairs.
 The ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, sit on the floor, or crawl as needed when working with small children on
their level.
 The ability to reach, extending arms in any direction.
 The ability to push or pull objects weighing up to 25 pounds.
 The ability to lift and carry a child up to age 5
 The ability to talk in order to accurately exchange information.
 The ability to hear in order to accurately exchange information.
 The ability to see clearly in order to maintain child safety and supervision, use a computer, and for extensive
reading and writing.
 The ability to work in both indoor conditions and outdoor conditions

OTHER DUTIES:

Performs other duties as assigned by management.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Related field and experience working with families and children.