BCBA - Board Certified Behavior Analyst ($6,000 Sign-on Bonus)

About the role

At Grafton, we are united by a shared purpose: helping individuals with complex needs live their best lives. As a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and overseeing evidence-based behavioral interventions that support individuals with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and other complex behavioral and mental health needs.

Responsibilities

• Promotes a person-centered approach to treatment: Works with a variety of team members and internal stakeholders, as well as external supports to make meaningful change for clients and families
• Respects the personal goals of individuals served with ultimate goal of improving quality of life for the individual served and his/her care providers
• Identifies behaviors that block the person from achieving his/her desired goals
• Develops programs that support client goals and build from the individual’s strengths
• Provides family training for residential client cases
• Uses a positive intervention model that minimizes physical intervention
• Affirms the function of behavior
• Ensures that a functional assessment is completed for each individual served, in a timely manner
• Conducts assessment measures in a variety of settings, to include home and community
• Familiarizes oneself with and utilizes direct assessment tools to measure behavior
• Uses appropriate data methods when assessing behavior through direct observation (ABC, time sampling, event recording)
• Utilizes assessment tools that best apply to specific client needs, such as: VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, FLAPS, ABFD
• Determines the contextual influences on behavior: physical environment, staff relationships, physical conditions
• Supports behavior goals for clients and coordinates with program clinicians to provide a holistic approach to treatment
• Makes treatment recommendations according to assessment results and write a clinical assessment summary as required for treatment authorization
• Evaluates and documents client progress and program effectiveness
• Creates data sheets and supervises the collection of progress data as it is recommended within the treatment plan
• Makes adjustments to behavioral goals and objectives as needed
• Documents, summarizes and reports on progress data at least monthly
• Creates and updates treatment and discharge plans on a routine basis
• Attends and actively supports the positive facilitation of monthly treatment plan review meetings with all treatment team members
• Prepares and submits monthly/quarterly treatment plan progress reports, according to billing requirements
• On an individual client basis, provides initial and ongoing training to Behavior Specialist staff assigned to deliver ABA treatment effectively and consistently:
• Treatment plan procedures
• ABA treatment session expectations
• Data collection and graphing techniques
• Family and related service provider training
• Supports staff development
• Mentors behavior therapists who do not yet have certification, and may provide consultation to them on cases that they manage
• Teaches positive behavior support strategies that can be universally applied
• Teaches appropriate and efficient methods of data collection
• Teaches alternative strategies to avoid the use of physical interventions
• Teaches staff on the need for environmental modifications
• Teaches staff on prevention techniques
• Teaches staff on antecedents and consequences strategies

Qualifications

• Must have a Master’s in a human services field and hold current board certification as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst from the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB).

Skills

• Positive intervention model
• Data collection and graphing techniques
• Environmental modifications
• Prevention techniques
• Antecedents and consequences strategies

Benefits

• Free meals during shift
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending, Dependent Care FSA & Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employer-Paid Life Insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Generous Paid Time Off plan
• Retailer Discounts
• Retirement Plan with employer match - up to $2,500 annually
• Education Assistance - up to $5,250 annually
• Continuing Education Opportunities
• Free will preparation services