ABA Clinic - Licensing Specialist

Job Title

This position is deemed 100% Remote Work.

About this position:

This position is a pacesetter in the field who has a unique level of technical expertise in creating the landscape for the creation of interagency collaboration with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE), and the design of policies, procedures, and regulations impacting requirements in ABA Clinic settings. Management routinely relies on the essential consultation of this position before deciding essential, wide-ranging critical program policy or direction to ensure clinic practice is in compliance with required standards.

This position implements the Division's audit process to include sample reviews, technical assistance and training, issuing reports of inspection, issuing fines, authorizing licensure, and recommending adverse action against a facility, agency, or clinic. This includes researching and staying up-to-date on policies, procedures, and requirements related to public health, immunizations, and health-related matters as flagged by CDPHE. This position determines whether the agencies are operating in compliance with applicable internal guidelines, rules, policies, regulations, and standards.

This position identifies and recommends opportunities for improving standards of practice for programs to meet operational expectations. This position is responsible for ongoing collaboration with CDPHE licensing staff and local health authorities who conduct health inspections on any overlaps or inconsistencies in regulatory frameworks. This position provides support to other Licensing Specialists and other staff within the Division of Child Welfare concerning immunizations, health inspections of ABA Clinics, and general health safety, as well as practices within the Unit's licensed ABA Clinics.

This position ensures that youth are receiving safe and adequate care and treatment by evaluating the physical plant, treatment planning, staff and care provider qualifications, training, and supervision, as well as financial stability, interviews with youth in care, and required corrective actions. This position is also responsible for handling and safeguarding confidential information regarding youth in care, as well as for specific provider staff background checks.

Summary of

Job Duties:

Licensing of Agencies and Technical Assistance:

Provide or research options for and coordinate technical assistance to licensed facilities and agencies to support the delivery of quality care to youth and to increase their compliance with State and Federal rules, with particular focus on child protection and safety. Oversee and direct providers to improve programming to ensure the safety, care, and well-being of children in placement. This position is a technical assistance expert for the Division of Child Welfare in the areas of licensing, child care/child welfare, and treatment planning related to these populations.

Serve as the staff authority on child care and child welfare treatment and the protocols necessary to assure resident safety and well-being. This position is responsible for developing and overseeing best practices, implementation, tracking, and oversight of practices regarding local health authority inspections, immunizations, and general health safety requirements, processes, and policies for services rendered in ABA Clinics. Management relies on this position's expertise for determining best practices for obtaining and reviewing background records for all staff members, foster parents, adults over the age of eighteen years living in foster homes, and volunteers working directly with children/youth in agencies licensed under the Provider Services Unit.

Evaluate the quality of programming, practices and policies, and compliance with providers of out-of-home care; specifically, conduct building and site inspections, ensure staff and care providers are supervised and trained according to their individual needs and the needs of the youth served in the facility or agency, assess treatment planning, observe milieu, assess quality of home study evaluations, assess behavioral interventions…