Board Certified Behavior Analyst

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:

• 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.

• Ensures a written admission behavior support plan has been completed and staff trained prior to client admissions and annually thereafter.

• Provides all necessary support and training to all direct support professionals.

• Provide on-site coverage, support and training to all staff across all shifts (1st shift, 2nd Shift, and 3rd Shift).

• 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.

• Engages in functional assessments to identify factors that are maintaining dangerous, maladaptive and disruptive behaviors. Conducts behavioral assessments of clients as assigned.

• 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.

• 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.

• Performs staff training on behavior support plans and data collection systems.

• 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.

• 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.

• Performs other duties as assigned by management.