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
POSITION NUMBER: 67064171
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.
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:
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.
$49,103.84 - $54,013.96 Annually $1,888.60 - $2,077.46 Bi-weekly
The hiring salary may exceed the maximum posted salary.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Human Resource Specialist/Recruitment Manager
Sunland Human Resources
Division of Administration and Facility Operations
Email: lizzie.holland@apdcares.org
3700 Williams Drive
Marianna, FL. 32446
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.
VETERANS’ PREFERENCE. Pursuant to Chapter 295, Florida Statutes, candidates eligible for Veterans’ Preference will receive preference in employment for Career Service vacancies and are encouraged to apply. Certain service members may be eligible to receive waivers for postsecondary educational requirements. Candidates claiming Veterans’ Preference must attach supporting documentation with each submission that includes character of service (for example, DD Form 214 Member Copy #4) along with any other documentation as required by Rule 55A-7, Florida Administrative Code. Veterans’ Preference documentation requirements are available by clicking here. All documentation is due by the close of the vacancy announcement.
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