Home-Based Behavioral Specialist (BCBA)

Position Summary: Provides Home-Based adaptive living and behavioral consultation services to help ACCEPT programs build capacity to serve students with Autism spectrum disorder and related disabilities in home and community settings. Work schedule will include providing and supervising Home-Based services during after school hours (3:00 to 6:30 pm) and may include working from 10:30 am to 6:30 pm on a regular Required:Masters degree (M.A. M.S. or .) required.3 5 years of experience working with children and/or young adults with Autism spectrum disorder and related disabilities preferably in home-based and community Drivers Desired:Board Certified Behavior Analyst/BCBA certification strongly preferred; individuals who are currently completing post-masters coursework or fieldwork/supervision hours to sit for the BCBA Exam may be Functions and Responsibilities:Provide supervision to direct Home-Based Therapists and consultation to parents/caregivers regarding each students adaptive daily living behavioral and social services for students aged 3 22 in the home and/or non K-12 school to and collaborate with the Home-Based skill acquisition programming and behavior reduction programming along with parent-implemented interventions and strategies incorporating data collection/progress monitoring towards measurable Home-Based and train others to implement behavior change procedures (e.g. discrete trials Incidental teaching differential reinforcement shaping chaining task analyses antecedent and consequence interventions coping skills etc.).Model techniques and strategies for the parents/caregivers and other family members in the home data collections systems based on the principles of Applied Behavior summarize data for Home-Based services being implemented; monitor progress and modify programs as any needed changes in programming and document recommendations on each home accurate clinical session notes for activities performed during on-site Home-Based and Community-Based Home-Based progress reports as per the schedule indicated in each students Individualized Education Program (IEP)/determined by the students IEP in professional development opportunities throughout the all/respond to email communications with the Home-Based Services Coordinator and parents in a timely and follow up with Home-Based staff and parents/caregivers on behavioral and programing with students team members (school personnel other outside service providers) as other responsibilities and duties as assigned by the Home-Based appropriate formal and informal assessments (Functional Behavior Assessments/FBAs Adaptive Daily Living Skills Assessments Home Observations) and interpret results including writing reports and presenting findings at Team with parents/caregivers family members Home-Based Therapists and Home-Based Coordinator regarding the needs and services of students and strategies to implement goals and address behavioral issues in the home setting and in community as a liaison between the school and home environments to ensure consistency and appropriate carry-over of on Team to determine the appropriateness of ACCEPT Home-Based with teams to develop goals and objectives regarding Home-Based and Community-Based behavioral professional development duties as Functions:Other duties as assignedOccasional travel to all collaborative locations and transfer between ACCEPT programs based on programmatic needsSuccess Factors/Job Competencies:Ability to work with children and young adults with a variety of disabilities including Autism spectrum disorder intellectual/developmental disabilities and related attention to detail and interpersonal and communication and proactive attitude .Ability to maintain confidentiality and ethical to company values and team Demands and Work Environment:Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to move about and may be required to traverse occasionally throughout the school building. The employee must also often remain in a stationary position for considerable periods of time. The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms and sit stoop kneel crouch or crawl and perform physical restraint of a student at times of behavioral escalation. The employee is expected to lift at least 20 pounds (e.g. books school supplies etc.). The employee must frequently use hands to finger handle or feel; and use hand strength to grasp tools. Occasionally s/he operates a computer and other office productivity machinery (i.e. a calculator copy machine and computer printer). The employee must be able to input information into a computer and as well as read material from a computer monitor as well as handwritten or printed matter with or without visual aids. The employee must be able to communicate effectively with students parents and other staff members in person and on the the classroom the employee must be able to see and hear on a continuous basis in order to ensure the safety of students as well as speak frequently to provide instruction. On rare occasions it may be necessary to move quickly/run across even or uneven surfaces. The employee interacts with students parents and other staff members. The employee is directly responsible for the safety well-being and work output of Environment: The employee will be working in a variety of homes and community locations with an acceptable level of above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by an employee in this position/classification. It is not to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory or all duties responsibilities and qualifications of employees assigned to this job. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar related or is a logical assignment to the position. Management has the right to add to revise or delete information in this description. Reasonable accommodations will be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.

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