Professional Development & Shadowing Sample Clauses

Professional Development & Shadowing. To ensure quality interventionists for its clients, Patterns Behavioral Services, Inc., provides on-going training for employees. This requires staff members to attend periodic staff meetings, education workshops and conferences. Patterns will make every effort to find an alternate direct interventionist when these events occur but on occasion, this may result in a cancelled session with the Client. The Parent/Guardian will be notified in advance of these types of cancellations, and Patterns will collaborate with the Parent/Guardian to schedule additional sessions to make-up these hours. Additionally, our staff development relies on observation of children’s programs in the field. This is typical for any clinical service agency. Patterns attempts to give all staff an opportunity to participate in a variety of programs to ensure quality and in-depth training. This is true for both new staff and staff who may have new clinical goals. Patterns utilizes the term “shadowing” to describe the process of a direct interventionist following the case of another direct interventionist. This allows them to observe, take notes for later questions, and learn from clinical discussions during later supervision meetings. Each Parent/Guardian is informed ahead of time if the Client’s case is to have a “shadowing” visitor. Shadowing is a necessary and essential part of our clinical program, and therefore it is required that all Parents/Guardians and Clients consent to and facilitate such shadowing. Most frequently, this person will be a direct interventionist in training. On occasion, a senior-level clinical staff member may visit the Client’s sessions as well. We will do our best to give you sufficient notice of such visits. Having a shadow does not anticipate a risk to the child’s program, but rather may in fact generate additional program goals as we observe the Client with an additional person in the session please initial