Job Title: Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Immediate Supervisor: Clinical Director

Job Type: Full-Time, Exempt

Job Summary: The position is responsible for providing functional behavior assessments and individualized behavior programs to individuals with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviors.  The Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) will work at the discretion of the interdisciplinary team as a key member to assess and provide treatment recommendations and training to staff to help individuals learn important life skills while reducing problem behaviors that were detrimental to their ability to live successfully in a community setting.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Selects, designs, implements, and evaluates behavior protective intervention plans (PIPs), provides staff trainings on the implementation of individual client’s PIPs and develops a written, functional behavioral assessment and treatment plan for each client which is updated annually based on the client’s admission date.
2. Ensures a written admission behavior support plan has been completed and staff trained prior to client admissions and annually thereafter.
3. Provides all necessary support and training to all direct support professionals.
4. Provide on-site coverage, support and training to all staff across all shifts (1^st shift, 2^nd Shift, and 3^rd Shift).
5. Attends all pre-placement meetings and meetings regarding transitioning a client to and from a Greer facility (team meetings, transition meetings, exit meetings, etc.) with a focus on exchanging information about behaviors and behavior plans, discussing each agency and entity’s roles and responsibilities, and developing the admission behavior support.
6. Engages in functional assessments to identify factors that are maintaining dangerous, maladaptive and disruptive behaviors. Conducts behavioral assessments of clients as assigned.
7. Functions as a member of the onsite treatment team through communication, collaboration, research, strategic analysis of quality indicators, special projects, and committee participation within the area of expertise.
8. Participates as a key member of the Individual’s Interdisciplinary Treatment Team (IDT) and consults with other IDT members. Provides classroom and on-the-job training regarding issues of assessment, habilitation training design based on a person-centered approach, and implementation to professional and paraprofessional personnel.
9. Performs staff training on behavior support plans and data collection systems.
10. Performs staff training on behavioral support plans and conducts regular treatment integrity checklists to ensure competency and monitors the effectiveness through collected and graphed data.
11. Participates in meetings including admissions, annuals, case reviews, psychiatric medication reviews, and discharges by sharing pertinent behavioral data and insight to gain the overall treatment process for each individual.
12. Performs other duties as assigned by management.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

1. Master’s Degree in required areas of study to have successfully completed BCBA National Testing.
2. Must possess one of the following:
3. Behavior Analyst certified by National Behavior Analyst Certification Board as a Certified Behavior Analyst
4. Become a valid License Holder in Behavioral Analysis from OK DHS with 6 months of employment
5. Two years’ experience working with persons with IDD in designing, supervising and implementing behavior modification services.
6. Formal training and/or experience in planning, program evaluation, interpersonal relationships, problem solving, crisis intervention, and causes and habilitation/treatment of individuals with intellectual disabilities and mental illness/behavioral impairment/severe emotional disturbance is expected.
7. Must obtain and maintain current certification of Professional Crisis Management (PCM) prior to working with clients.
8. Must obtain and maintain current certification in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), including abdominal thrust technique, prior to working with clients. Training must be obtained through class attendance that includes hands-on instruction.
9. Must complete fingerprint clearance (OK Screen) prior to working with clients in facility.
10. Must be in good physical health which shall be verified by a health screening, including a test for tuberculosis, performed by or under the supervision of a physician not more than one year prior to or seven days after employment.
11. Ability to stand, sit, bend, lift, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and move intermittently. Use hands to handle or feel. Ability to turn on the knees, back, wrist, shoulders, and grasp with both hands. Must be able to frequently lift/move up to 50 lbs. and occasionally lift and move more than 50 lbs.
12. Must possess and maintain a current and valid driver’s license.