Behavioral Health Technician (BHT-ABA)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides face-to-face behavioral interventions.
• Implements Individualized Treatment Plans (ITP).
• Provides support to parents, teachers, and community members.
• Delivers and models treatment interventions.
• Provides positive reinforcement to the clients and families.
• Implements consequences for inappropriate actions as agreed upon.
• Communicates with peers and co-workers and exchanges information, which is important in achieving the individual goals for the clients.
• Sets and adheres to professional boundaries with all clients and families.
• Provides culturally aware and competent service provision.
• Completes initial training curriculum as per company requirements and guidelines, and state regulatory standards.

Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, handle or feel, talk or hear, and see.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Travel

• This position requires travel up to 20% of the time, with clients being no more than 30 minutes from the staff's home or Hummingbird ABA Therapy's Center, unless specifically agreed upon.
• BHT is required to have their own reliable transportation to/from clients within Centre County.

Benefits

• Paid Holidays: After 3 months of service, all full-time staff members are entitled to 9 paid holidays/year.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): All full-time staff earn 1 hour of PTO for every 25 hours worked, equivalent to 0.04 hours per hour worked. For Salaried Full-time employees, this amounts to 1.6 hours of PTO per week, even if working under 40 hours/week. PTO can be accumulated and rolled over to the following year, up to a maximum balance of 110 hours.
• Tuition Discount: All staff members are eligible for discounted tuition on Purdue Global University, Florida Institute of Technology, Ball State University, or York College's undergraduate, graduate, or certificate programs in Applied Behavior Analysis.
• Retail Savings w/ Match: After 3 months of employment, Hummingbird ABA offers the option for staff to contribute to their retirement savings through a 401K plan. The company provides an 80% match for the first 5% of contributions.
• Health, Vision, Dental Insurance: After 3 months of full-time employment, you will have the opportunity to enroll in the health, vision, and dental insurance plan funded by Hummingbird ABA. The cost of each plan will be shared between the employee (45%) and Hummingbird ABA (55%). The premium will be deducted from each paycheck.
• Life Insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Insurance: After 3 months of employment, all employees are enrolled in a group Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance at no cost.
• Optional Insurances: After 3 months of full-time employment, you will have the opportunity to enroll in Voluntary Life insurance and Short and/or Long Term Disability. The premium will be deducted from each paycheck.
• Discounted Phone Plans and Gym Memberships: All employees are eligible for a Verizon Wireless discount and a Planet Fitness discount.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): After 3 months of employment, employees are qualified for our EAP, providing low-cost or no-cost legal and financial services and mental health support.