JOB TITLE: Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)
REPORTS TO: Director of Special Education Services / Principal
POSITION STATEMENT: The primary goal of the BCBA is to support the development implementation and refinement of programmatic and individual social and behavioral supports using strategies based on the principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA). The BCBA will use their expertise to increase the capacity of all team members to effectively provide least restrictive behaviorally-based supports to students and related professional development and direct training to staff throughout each school day.
QUALIFICATIONS: - Masters Degree preferred in Applied Behavior Analysis.- Certification by BACB and the Commonwealth of MA (LABA) - Technical expertise and writing/reporting ability.- Working knowledge of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.- Successful professional practice in public or private setting preferred.- Ability to write reports and experience with writing IEPs preferred.- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with students staff andparents.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Adheres to all ethical guidelines as outlined by the BACB - Behavior Analyst Certification Board. Adheres to all state and district designed special education processes and procedures.- Creates & implements staff training and development around principles of ABA and related school-based topics during building based and district wide professional development opportunities throughout the school year as directed by Director of Special Education Services and Building Principals. - Conducts assessments including but not limited to: Functional Behavioral Assessment/Analysis adaptive assessments social/language/skills-based assessments home visits and other related assessments necessary to analyze measurable information to formulate team recommendations and action planning toward overcoming learning barriers and meeting IEP goals and objectives. - Collaborates with educational teams to create Behavior Support Plans (BSP) and other behaviorally based student support interventions that are feasible for implementation across all educational settings.- Creates and implements structured program/individual staff training on therapeutic staff design/implementation of BSPs and other individualized recommended strategies to ensure: high fidelity of implementation progress monitoring and increased student independence. - Models applied behavior analytic intervention strategies and data collection techniques for direct service providers classroom teachers paraprofessionals and other school-based stakeholders.- Monitors data on a scheduled basis shares action steps with staff and provides real time feedback to staff following observations. - Directly assists and supports teams with crisis/safety situations where staff require additional direct support and/or modeling. - Supports crisis situations and works under the guidance of building administration regarding action planning. - Provides program/individual staff consultation on development/ implementation of Discrete Trial Training programs and other ABA-based teaching methodologies to promote student learning success. - Provides staff consultation regarding the implementation of social skills instruction.- Facilitates action and solution based team consultation meetings with classroom teachers/related service providers/paraprofessional staff as needed by IEP team members and other stakeholders. - Attends all required IEP meetings when the role is assigned to IEP or an evaluation has been requested/completed. Attends all additionally requested meetings with IEP teams families and/or community stakeholders. - Fulfills all written IEP responsibilities including but not limited to: student strengths and key evaluation summaries accomodations methodologies service delivery grid. Provides consultation to the team on social/behavioral goals/objectives as needed. - Provides consultation to families and community stakeholders as requested. - Schedules and documents provision of services to students as outlined in individual IEPs. - Performs other duties as requested or assigned which may be expected of a qualified BCBA.- All employees of Mount Greylock Regional School District are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner at all times that exemplifies and personifies the mission vision and values of the District and sets forth a model of behavior that is worthy of emulation by the students we serve.
Required Experience:
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