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Job 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

Paying: $40-45/HR

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected] learn more about how we collect, keep, and process your private information, please review Insight Global's Workforce Privacy Policy: https://insightglobal.com/workforce-privacy-policy/.

Skills and Requirements

- Master’s degree in clinical social work or equivalent; LCSW, BCBA, or equivalent independent licensure is required.

- 2+ years managing ASD-related clinical situations (preference towards experience providing case management expertise)

- Deep understanding of the ASD care navigation landscape at the national, state, and regional levels, for both children and adults

- Comfortable in environments with constantly evolving responsibilities

- Passion for connecting individuals with excellent care and ability to provide short-term support over the phone and via email

- Candidate must be a full-time resident of the United States (1 opening in PST and 1 Opening in CT/EST)

- Must have worked in a hybrid or remote job before and comfortable navigating technology - Bilingual, Spanish-speaking candidates strongly preferred, but not required