Therapeutic Consultant - Full-time / Part-time

Founded in 1988, REM West Virginia provides an array of home and community-based services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. Through flexible, person-centered services including residential and day programs, employment services, behavior management and other supports, REM West Virginia empowers individuals throughout the state to grow and succeed in the communities they call home.

REM West Virginia is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join REM West Virginia and The MENTOR Network, you’ll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

Every person needs the support of others, but we look for very special people to support individuals with disabilities; children with emotional, behavioral or medical complexities, children and adults with brain injury. As a Therapeutic Consultant with REM West Virginia you’ll be one of those special people.

For REM Community Options and The MENTOR Network the Therapeutic Consultant is critical to our success and exemplifies the wonderful mission driven work we do here every day.

To that end, the Therapeutic Consultant role is a fantastic role to continue your career path in Social and Human Services with a myriad of career options to move up and across the organization.

REM Community Options is seeking a Therapeutic Consultant to identify targeted maladaptive behaviors, develops hypotheses and positive behavior support plans, and provides training in the person-specific aspects and method of a plan of intervention to the primary care providers. This position also provides evaluation/monitoring of the effectiveness of the positive behavior support plan.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Services or Therapy related field required
• Two years of human service-delivery experience preferred
• Must meet QMRP requirements, including at least one year experience working with persons with mental retardation or other developmental disabilities
• Other education and experience plus licensure as required by state

Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.

EOE/AAE