Director of Early Intervention Services

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic leadership for early intervention programs and services.
• Oversee day-to-day program operations and ensure effective service delivery.
• Recruit, hire, train, supervise, and evaluate program staff.
• Lead quality assurance and continuous improvement efforts.
• Develop community partnerships and referral relationships.
• Assist with budget development and fiscal oversight.
• Understand, communicate, and implement established therapist productivity standards and expectations, and monitor performance against them to support service delivery, financial sustainability, and caseload management.
• Ensure accurate utilization of HCSIS and EMR systems to support service delivery, documentation compliance, reporting requirements, quality assurance initiatives, and operational decision-making.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in early childhood education, special education, educational leadership, therapy services, or related fields. Master’s Degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive leadership experience in early intervention, pediatric therapy, developmental services, healthcare, or related human services programs.
• Experience supervising multidisciplinary teams of professionals.
• Strong knowledge of early childhood development and family-centered practices.
• Demonstrated understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements within early intervention services.
• Demonstrated understanding of therapist productivity requirements (e.g., billable units, caseload and utilization targets) and the ability to implement and monitor them in a way that balances quality of care with operational and financial goals.
• Experience utilizing HCSIS (Home and Community Services Information System) for program monitoring, compliance, reporting, and service coordination activities.
• Proficiency with Electronic Medical Record (EMR) systems, including oversight of clinical documentation, data integrity, workflow optimization, and reporting functions.
• Excellent leadership, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional licensure in a therapy or human services discipline.
• Experience with Pennsylvania Early Intervention programs and regulations.
• Experience managing budgets, grants, or contracts.
• Experience implementing or improving EMR workflows and clinical documentation systems.
• Knowledge of data analysis, quality improvement methodologies, and performance metrics.

Desired Competencies:

• Strategic leadership
• Team development and supervision
• Program management
• Regulatory compliance
• Therapist productivity management and implementation
• HCSIS proficiency and reporting oversight
• EMR management, documentation compliance, and data analysis
• Relationship building
• Change management
• Conflict resolution
• Data-driven decision making

We are seeking an experienced, compassionate, and strategic Director of Early Intervention Services to lead and oversee our early intervention therapy programs serving infants, toddlers, and their families. This leadership role is responsible for program operations, clinical oversight, staff supervision, regulatory compliance, quality improvement initiatives, and community collaboration to ensure the delivery of high-quality, family-centered services.