Job Description
Job Description
OB DESCRIPTION
Insight Global is seeking a BCBA, with a focus on ASD. You’ll be doing the important and meaningful work of supporting individuals as they navigate through the complex ASD landscape. You will provide critical psychoeducation on topics like early intervention services, navigating a diagnosis, and how to advocate for school and government services. Additionally, you will help connect clients to high-quality, evidence-based diagnosticians and providers, depending on their needs.
The focus of this role will be on (but not limited to) providing support to caregivers of children/adolescents with suspected or diagnosed ASD and supporting adults seeking ASD-informed care. In addition to ASD focused care, you will also serve as a general Care Manager for our Care Management program. With mostly younger populations, you’ll be doing the important, meaningful work of providing care when clients are in need.
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Warmly support clients by: understanding their current situation, conducting a brief risk assessment, providing psychoeducation relevant to the case, creating a care plan, and connecting the client to treatment (you will not be providing the treatment only information)
• Serve as an ASD Subject Matter Expert - providing guidance
• Independently manage a caseload of complex, multi-need clients, mostly pediatric and ASD, providing collaborative, long term case management
• Successfully facilitate ongoing engagement, supporting clients as they move through various levels of care, employing Motivational Interviewing and other strategies to support client readiness for treatment
• Skillfully manage client crises, providing brief risk and needs assessments, safety planning, and de-escalation with the goal of connecting the client to treatment
• Respond to in-the-moment callers seeking crisis support, offering brief, evidence-based coping skills
• Effectively and professionally communicate with clients and providers throughout the process of accessing care, via email, phone, and occasionally text
• Creatively troubleshoot roadblocks to offering personalized, high quality clinical care options for our clients
• Use assessment rubric to determine whether neuropsychological testing is indicated for a given patient member. If testing is recommended, the Neurodiversity Navigator will also assess whether a member is appropriate for virtual or in-person neuropsychological testing.
• Administer psychoeducational training to caregivers of children with neurodiverse conditions in order to help them learn skills to mitigate maladaptive behaviors, and improve caregiving strategies