Temporary Behavioral Technician

About the role

Bright Light, a part of the Sevita family, provides center-based Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career. You’ll join a mission-driven team and create relationships that motivate us all every day.

Responsibilities

• Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationship by building rapport with the person served.
• Follow the treatment plan goals and interventions utilizing sound judgment and seeks out appropriate consultation.
• Collaborates with the family and treatment team members to provide behavior management techniques effectively and without disruption to the environment or other individuals in the environment.
• Educate parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information when requested.
• Maintain professionalism and composure at all times. Utilize appropriate interactional style with persons served and staff. Maintain dignity and respect for others.
• Promotes safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors in order to build a repertoire of communication, social interaction, and problem solving skills.
• Promotes both successful and independent responding.
• Increases the frequency or duration of safe and appropriate replacement behaviors by providing access to reinforcers (desired items/actions, attention, or removal of demands/aversive situations).
• Reviews progress of people served objectively using behavior analytic methods, identifies solutions to barriers and makes recommendations to the supervisor and behavior analyst when needed.
• Accurately collects behavior data including: A-B-C, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval based recording as needed.
• Reassessment as appropriate.
• Maintains professionalism and composure at all times. Utilize appropriate interactional style with persons served and staff. Maintain dignity and respect for others.
• Schedules and prepares for leisure activities to keep persons served engaged and active when therapy sessions are not taking place.
• Participates in training from clinical staff on the implementation of program updates to assure rehabilitative objectives are achieved.
• Completes all mandatory trainings and refreshers as required.
• Attends clinical meetings as assigned such as access review meetings, clinical team meetings, progress conferences, etc.
• Responsible for providing up to date residential status of participants as well as identifying problem areas affecting the participant and following through with solutions based upon clinical team recommendations.
• Engages in the meetings, provides input, shares observations, opinions, concerns, ideas, etc.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Requirements

• The Behavioral Technician must be able to perform the essential functions of the job either unaided or with the assistance of a reasonable accommodation.
• Education and experience: High School Diploma Preferred experience in related field.
• Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations: RBT Credential preferred, Current CPR/First Aid Certification as required, Valid driver’s license in good standing. Car registration and vehicle insurance if providing transportation for individuals receiving services.

Qualifications

• Ability to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships.
• Sound judgment and ability to seek out appropriate consultation.
• Collaboration skills with families and treatment team members.
• Ability to educate parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information.
• Professionalism and composure at all times.
• Ability to promote safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors.
• Ability to accurately collect and record behavior data.
• Ability to participate in training and attend clinical meetings.
• Ability to engage in meetings and provide input.
• Ability to perform medium work exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

Skills

• Behavioral analysis methods.
• Communication and social interaction skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Reinforcement and intervention information.
• Documentation and reporting.
• Training and education.
• Team collaboration.

Benefits

Sevita offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, and paid time off.

Pay

Compensation is commensurate with experience.

Schedule

Hours are flexible and can vary based on the needs of the individuals served.