Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Location: North Port, Sarasota, Venice, Bradenton, Tampa
Pay: $90.00 per hour
Schedule: Choose your hours
Language:
Spanish (Preferred)
English (Preferred)
Job Summary
We seek a dedicated and compassionate Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or BCaBA to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess a strong background in behavioral health and demonstrate expertise in patient assessment and behavioral therapy. This role involves working closely with children and individuals with autism, providing them with the necessary support to enhance their quality of life through effective behavior management strategies.
Duties
Implementing behavior analysis interventions and monitoring and assessing the recipient’s progress toward goals in the behavior plan
Behavior analysis interventions include discrete trial teaching, task analysis, training, differential reinforcement, non-contingent reinforcement, conducting task analyses of complex responses, and teaching using chaining, prompting, fading, shaping, response cost, and extinction.
Training the recipient’s family, caregiver(s), and others involved in implementing the behavior plan and intervention strategies.
Promote a person-centered approach to treatment.
Compliance with Medicaid, Medicaid waiver, eQ Health Solutions, APD, Delmarva, and insurance standards.
Respect the personal goals of individuals served with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life for the Individual served and their care provider.
Identifies treatment barriers that block the person from achieving their desired goals.
Develop programs that derive from the individual’s strengths.
Maintain communication with Behavior assistants/RBTs, Case managers, and parents/guardians.
Provide hands-on training for the staff (Behavior assistants/RBTs).
Uses positive intervention models that minimize physical intervention.
Assesses the function of behavior.
Ensures that the functional assessment is completed on time.
Conducts assessment measures in a variety of settings, including home and community.
Uses direct assessment tools to measure behavior.
Uses appropriate data methods when assessing behavior through direct observation (ABC, time sampling, event recording). Utilizes direct measurement tools currently in the field.
Conducts direct observations and assessments of individual recipients in their living, educational, and community environments.
Develops and implements behavior programs, coordinating the delivery of appropriate services to recipients by providers to achieve therapeutic outcomes.
Participates in interdisciplinary and care review meetings at which behavioral treatment programs are reviewed.
Collects baseline and intervention data to evaluate outcomes. Engages in research activities to enhance the program and to make meaningful contributions to the current body of knowledge.
Performs other professional and administrative support duties related to the specific program.
