Program Implementer, Provincial Preschool Autism

1 week ago

Halifax, Canada IWK Health Centre Full time

**Company** : IWK Health**:
**Req ID**:193107
**Department/Program**:WZ Provincial Preschool Autism Services, Provincial Preschool Autism Services
**Location**: Kentville
**Type of Employment**:Temporary Hourly FT long-assignment (100% FTE) approximate twelve (12) month long assignment x 1 position(s)
**Start Date**: ASAP
**Union Status**: NSGEU Hlthcare, Healthcare Bargaining Unit
**Compensation**: $31.9145**:

- **$37.2443 /hour
**Closing Date**: December 10, 2025 (Applications are accepted until 23:59 Atlantic Time)

IWK Health is a respected academic health sciences centre located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 4000 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.

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

Services include a range of interventions and supports available for children and families. Service streams include:

- Clinical intake and care coordination
- Family and health professional education
- QuickStart NS parent coaching toddler program
- Autism diagnostic assessment
- Interprofessional autism interventions (focused interventions based on care pathways and manualized comprehensive programs),
- A 12-month intensive intervention for children with the greatest social communication and behaviour needs (formerly EIBI)
- Transition to school supports

Services and programs are flexible and able to be scaled up and down based on the needs and progress of each child and their family. There is a comprehensive scope of services that can be matched to best meet the needs of preschool-age children. The goal of all interventions is to empower caregivers to teach and support their child’s development.

**The Opportunity**:
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, and the 12-Month Intensive Intervention for children with the greatest social communication and behavior needs. This includes:

- Direct service provision to preschool age children with autism and their families based on an intervention plan (throughout this document this is meant to include 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 family 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.

**Hours of Work**:
Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours/week
Flexibility in hours available to work (including some evenings, weekends) required.

**Your Qualifications**:

- 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, children with autism will also be considered.
- Recent experience (within the past 5 years) working with young children (0-7 years old) with developmental disabilities; specifically with autism required.
- Post-Secondary Behavioral Interventions Certificate or Diploma preferred.
- Current successful completion of a Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Basic Life Support Level (BLS) Program within the last 12 months, or successful completion of a BLS Renewal Challenge Certificate, required.
- Certification in First Aid required.
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to fam

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