Integrated Service Reviewer I Qualifications

Summary of Responsibilities
The ISR I Reviewer is accountable to the Team Leader for completing the Mental Health, Disabilities, and Family and Community Services sections of the OHS Monitoring Protocol.

Tasks include:

• Develop a complete picture of Grantees’ design and implementation of services that includes:
  • Secure services of a qualified mental health professional
  • Timely identification of needs and support
  • Consult and educating parents and staff about mental health prevention, intervention, and wellness
• Collect information to ensure that children with disabilities receive all services to which they are entitled
• Provide complete information about how grantees build relationships and collaborate with parents and community partners for the healthy development of children and families
• Collect and entering all notes from observations, interviews, review of records, etc. into the “Notes” component of the OHS Monitoring Software
• Work collaboratively with others to complete common assignments, interview grantee stakeholders, write preliminary areas of noncompliance, and accept direction from the Team Leader

Minimum Requirements

Education:
Bachelor’s degree in psychological services, social work services, counseling/family support services, early childhood special education, or other related discipline

Work Experience:

• Head Start experience preferred but not required.
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience with an organization serving a significant proportion of families with young children (birth to age 5) in a position providing psychological or social work services (e.g., case management, counseling, etc.) and/or working with children with disabilities and their families.
• Relevant work experience must be within the last 15 years.
• Provision of relevant services to young children birth to 5 and their families in at least 1 of the following 3 areas of responsibility:
  1. Behavioral/mental health direct services for young children and their families;
  2. The provision of developmental disability services to children birth through 5 and their families that includes identifying appropriate early childhood curriculum within the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) framework;
  3. The provision of comprehensive and integrated family support services to families of children birth through 5 in a public or private setting.

Other Requirements
Must be able to demonstrate through a specified writing sample the ability to write clear and concise reports supported by appropriate evidence.