Behavior Analyst

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide Behavior Analytic Treatment service to assigned caseload working in home, school, and community settings.
• Develop individualized behavior modification treatment plans and supervise the implementation of the plans; completing functional analysis when indicated.
• Maintain progress notes for every billable contact.
• Prepare professionally written summaries and documents describing a client's behavior and progress in achievement of treatment plan goals.
• Design and direct the implementation a behavioral intervention plan for the identified child.
• Complete regularly occurring data reviews.
• Participate in interagency treatment plan meetings as needed.
• Provide clinical oversight to Behavioral Health Technician ABA (BHT-ABA) at the location of behavioral interventions on a routine basis.
• Work closely with the BHT-ABA to ensure treatment goals are being implemented accurately.
• Develop cooperative relationships with community agencies that will facilitate treatment services provided to all clients.
• Work as a positive team member supporting the team's mission and goals, consistently working in a trusting and cooperative manner with fellow team members and supporting the team's common operating approach.
• Accepts professional responsibility and serves as a role model for positive, pro-social behavior; modeling respect, responsibility, integrity, empathy, impulse control, emotional self-awareness, and professional boundaries.
• Demonstrates commitment to professional growth by attending all required meetings, trainings and organizational trainings.
• Conduct Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA’s) - collect, quantify, and analyze data.
• Facilitate team meetings to discuss data and findings.
• Fine tune IBHS prescriptions based on levels of need.
• Administer skills assessments and utilize teaching/skill building curriculum (PEAK, VB-MAPP, Denver Model, ABLLS-R, etc.).
• Attend both individual and group supervision.

Qualifications

• Possess specific expertise in the areas of Autism and Applied Behavioral Analysis with the ability to carry out individualized behavior programs using at least one or more models of ABA (such as PEAK, Verbal Behavior, Competent Learner Model, Lovaas Model, Denver Model).
• Training and experience in completion of Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA’s).
• Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to develop effective and meaningful relationships with clients.
• Must be able to identify underlying causes of problem situations, and recommend non-aversive behavioral change methods.
• Must be a team player.
• Licensed in the state of Pennsylvania as a psychologist, professional counselor (LPC), marriage and family therapist (LMFT), clinical social worker (LCSW), social worker (LSW), behavior specialist (LBS), certified registered nurse practitioner, or a professional with a scope of practice that includes overseeing the provision of ABA services.
• Hold a certification as a BCBA or other graduate level of certification in behavior analysis that is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies or the American National Standards Institute.
• The Behavior Analyst will have an updated Act 33 Child Abuse Clearance, Act 34 Criminal Record Check, FBI Criminal Background Check, and Act 31 CPSL Mandated Reporter Training prior to working alone with a child.