Manager Disability Services Jobs in Dothan, AL (NOW HIRING)

Requisition No: 883091 

Agency: Agency for Persons with Disabilities

Working Title: Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional - 67064171 - SUNLAND

 Pay Plan: Career Service

Position Number: 67064171 

Salary:  $49,103.84 - $54,013.96 

Posting Closing Date: 09/10/2026 

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AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

 POSITION: Senior Vocational Rehab Counselor - Career Service

Working Title: Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP)

POSITION NUMBER: 67064171

OPEN COMPETITIVE OPPORTUNITY

This posting may close before the posted closing date.

CANDIDATE POOL: Future vacancies may be filled from this advertisement for a period of up to six months.

The Benefits of Working for the State of Florida

Working for the State of Florida is more than a paycheck. The State’s total compensation package for eligible employees features a highly competitive set of employee benefits, including:

• Annual and Sick Leave benefits.
• Nine paid holidays and one Personal Holiday each year.
• State Group Insurance coverage options, including health, life, dental, vision, and other supplemental insurance options.
• Retirement plan options, including employer contributions (For more information, please click www.myfrs.com).
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Tuition waivers.
• And more! For a more complete list of benefits, visit www.mybenefits.myflorida.com.
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave.

The Agency seeks team members who demonstrate the qualities of being humble, hungry, and smart and lead others to embody the same. This entails lacking excessive ego, sharing credit, being self-motivated, and exercising good judgment and intuition regarding the subtleties of group dynamics. 

This position with APD will serve staff and management across the Agency. Your work will impact the workplace culture, our community, and the population we serve as we continuously strive to achieve the Agency’s mission.

*Responses to the qualifying questions are required and must be verifiable based on your submitted application, and “see resume” will not be considered an acceptable response.

SALARY RANGE

$49,103.84 - $54,013.96 Annually                       $1,888.60 - $2,077.46 Bi-weekly

The hiring salary may exceed the maximum posted salary.  

Position Summary

This professional, highly responsible career service position established as the Qualified Intellectual Disability Professional (QIDP) at Sunland. The primary function of this position is to ensure that each resident’s active treatment program is integrated, coordinated, and monitored. Ensuring a healthy and safe environment for each resident is a key component of the role. The QIDP serves as a back-up for other QIDP caseloads as assigned. This position may be assigned to a home or specific case load as needed. This is a mission critical/essential, excluded position thus tasked with responding in emergency situations.

The Work You Will Do 

This position is tasked with orchestrating all facets of the active treatment team’s efforts, effectively coordinating internal and external program services facilitating the acquisition of residents’ skills and adaptive behaviors and promoting competent interactions of residential staff with other residents in program implementation and behavior management. The QIDP conducts and/or coordinates Individual Program Plans (IPPs), active treatment meetings, and related active treatment material as well as activities related to the admission and discharge of clients within an ICF/IDD Facility. The QIDP also develops and document the IPP to ensure active treatment services are provided according to regulations. With related assessments, the QIDP identifies services that a resident may need. Revisions are made to resident IPPs as needed with input from the members of the interdisciplinary team. The QIDP must assure timely follow-up on related resident needs.

The QIDP supervises/monitors all areas of client programs and living conditions to ensure that program requirements and applicable standards pertaining to safety and normalcy are complied with. These areas include locations such as, but not limited to work sites, learning/educational centers, mealtimes, social/leisure activities, goal/data collection, and home observations. Perform routine observations of residents across various settings in the program to assess effectiveness of programmatic implementation and consistency of training are used as means to ensure that each resident’s Individual Program Plan (IPP) is carried out fully. The goal is for each resident to have their program modified as needed to facilitate achieving desired skills and goals.

This position ensures that all Incident Reports are completed in a timely manner with applicable follow-up. The QIDP assists and provides needed information to investigators with alleged abuse, neglect, and/or exploitation residents as needed. This position must document and report unusual and/or significant events in a timely manner to the appropriate supervisors or designees. Appropriate documentation, treatment where applicable, and resident follow-up are a part of this responsibility.

The QIDP assists in formulation of the plan of correction which aims to correct deficiencies that occurred during the various inspections and surveys. This position also supervises/monitors the progress of related plans of correction, providing frequent updates to Unit Director or designee.

The QIDP participates in the various committees and workgroups as assigned to coordinate activities of the department's external to this facility as they are related to the activities of the facilities’ residents.

This position completes all required training and maintains Sunland’s current crisis management prevention and intervention certification/training as required.

The QIDP performs other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university with major course work in social work, rehabilitation counseling, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, audiology, psychology, sociology, special education, dietetics, or a related human services field. As required by Appendix J.

• One year of experience working directly with persons with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities; and experience means providing professional or direct services, either paid or volunteer in a setting that serves persons with intellectual disabilities. The experience working directly with persons with intellectual or other developmental disabilities can be obtained prior to or after obtaining the qualifying degree or credentials. As required by Appendix J.

• Must be able to develop and oversee the implementation of individual care plans.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of problem-solving techniques.
• Ability to develop individual care plans.
• Ability to oversee the implementation of individual care plans.
• Ability to utilize problem solving techniques.
• Ability to conduct meetings.
• Ability to plan, organize and coordinate work activities.
• Ability to determine work priorities, assign work, and ensure proper completion of work assignments.
• Ability to ensure that training and habilitation services for all residents are administered as required.
• Ability to ensure that reports, schedules and letters are completed.
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others.

Additional Information

Profile Completion

To qualify for this position, applicants must complete all fields in the Candidate Profile, including their work history with the month and year. 

Resumes and other documentation can be attached to provide additional information but will not replace the required completed Candidate Profile.

Retiree Notice

If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be suspended or voided, and you will be required to repay all benefits received depending upon your retirement date.

Direct Deposit Program

As a condition of employment, a person appointed to a position in the State Personnel System is required to participate in the Direct Deposit Program.  Rather than receiving a paper paycheck, your funds will be deposited directly into your account at your financial institution. This will be accomplished by Electronic Funds Transfer. Banks, savings and loan associations, and credit unions are eligible to accept such deposits. Retirement funds are also required to be in the Direct Deposit Program.

Background Screening Requirement

It is the policy of the Florida Agency for Persons with Disabilities that applicants for employment undergo Level 2 employment screening in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 435, Florida Statutes, as a condition of employment or being permitted to serve as a volunteer.

No applicant for a designated position will be employed or permitted to volunteer until the Level 2 screening results are received, reviewed, and approved by the Agency.

Level 2 background screening shall include, but not be limited to, fingerprinting for Statewide criminal and juvenile records checks through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal criminal records checks through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and may include local criminal records checks through local law enforcement agencies.

Pursuant to S. 110.1127(1), Florida Statutes, this position requires a background investigation, including fingerprinting.

Applicants for employment will also be screened through the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse. For additional information, please visit the AHCA Background Screening Clearinghouse.  

APD only hires U.S. citizens and those lawfully authorized to work in the U.S. APD participates in the U.S. government’s employment eligibility verification program (E-Verify), which electronically confirms an employee’s eligibility to work in the U.S. after completing the employment eligibility verification form (I-9).

All applicants should complete the online application process. If you need assistance applying for this position, please call the People First service center at 1-877-562-7287. 

Responses to the qualifying questions are required to be considered for this position. Answers to the qualifying questions must be verifiable based on your submitted application.

Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.

The State of Florida supports a Drug-Free workplace. All employees are subject to reasonable suspicion drug testing in accordance with Section 112.0455, F.S., Drug-Free Workplace Act.

Recruiting Contact

Lizzie Holland

Human Resource Specialist/Recruitment Manager