Program Implementer, Provincial Preschool Autism Services; Zone

Company: IWK Health

Req : 223456

Department/Program: CZ PPAS Intervention, Provincial Preschool Autism Services

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Type of Employment: Permanent Hourly Full Time (100% FTE)

Start Date: ASAP

Union Status: NSGEU Healthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit

Compensation: $34,200.80 – $41,933.00 per hour

Closing Date: July 19, 2026 (Applications accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre providing tertiary and primary care for two million children, youth, adults and families each year across the Atlantic region. We have a team of approximately 4,000 employees, physicians, volunteers and learners at sites across Nova Scotia. People build careers with IWK Health with our focus on training and mentorship opportunities. We recognize each other’s talent and celebrate our successes.

We collaborate in modern facilities or virtually from home, align our work to our values, and enjoy access to enhanced benefits and wellness programs. We are proud to support our patients, families and communities and are grateful for the generous donor support we receive.

Promoting an anti‑racist environment and calling out discrimination is important to us. We are located in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded and ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people. Working in Mi’kma’ki and providing care to those across Atlantic Canada is a shared privilege with the original inhabitants who have lived here for many thousands of years prior to colonization. There are 13 First Nation communities across Nova Scotia, and more than 50 historic African Nova Scotian communities who also have a long, deep, and complex history dating back over 400 years.

We have the highest percentage of people with disabilities in the country.

The Provincial Preschool Autism Service (PPAS) is a partnership between IWK Health, Nova Scotia Health, Hearing and Speech Nova Scotia, and Autism Nova Scotia.

It provides person and family‑centred services to preschoolers across Nova Scotia who are suspected of or have a diagnosis of autism. The goal of the service is to provide an efficient, sustainable, and integrated continuum of health services that follows a needs‑based model responsive to the individual needs of children and their families.

• Clinical intake and care coordination
• Family and health professional education
• Quick Start NS parent coaching toddler program
• Autism diagnostic assessment
• Interprofessional autism interventions
• Intensive intervention for children with the greatest social communication and behaviour needs
• Transition to school supports

Reporting to the Manager, Provincial Preschool Autism Services, the Program Implementer provides intervention within Autism Interprofessional Interventions (focused interventions based on care pathways and manualized comprehensive programs), foundational education, and parent coaching for caregivers and families. The role includes intensive intervention for children with the greatest social communication and behaviour needs.

• Direct service provision to preschool‑age children with autism and their families based on an intervention plan (including service plans, intervention plans and manualized curriculum plan).
• Standardized delivery of PPAS adopted evidence‑based interventions and promising practices based in Applied Behaviour Analysis.
• Delivery of intervention for children and their families in a variety of centre‑based, or community‑based locations (e.g., clinics, homes, childcare centres, and pre‑primary classrooms).
• Program Implementers are under the direct supervision of Clinical Interventionists (CIs) and Speech Language Pathologists; CIs are from the disciplines of Board‑Certified Behaviour Analysis, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Speech Language Pathology.
• Travel is required.

Monday – Friday, 75 hours bi‑weekly (8:30 am to 4:30 pm). Flexibility in hours, including some evenings and weekends, is required.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology or Child and Youth Studies.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Education plus two years’ experience working with young children with developmental disabilities; specifically,…