Behavioral Support Specialist - Evening Shifts (Brooklyn)

yai; Brooklyn (OH); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

YAI is hiring Assistant Behavior Intervention Specialists (ABIS) in Brooklyn to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across home, family, YAI residences, day habilitation centers, and community settings. The role emphasizes person-centered supports, supervision, and community inclusion activities led by ABIS in collaboration with BIS and DSP teams.

The ABIS will implement Behavior Support Plans, provide direct supervision, and train staff to ensure safety,

Responsibilities

• Performs all duties of a Direct Support Professional (DSP 1 - 3) as indicated in job descriptions, in addition to ABIS duties on a regular basis and/or as requested to ensure the overall supervision, protection and care of individuals in program, assisting in maximizing their strengths, interests and abilities while upholding their personal rights and facilitating activities that provide social capital and connections to the community.
• Leads the identification, facilitation and scheduling of community inclusion activities for assigned program based on feedback from and needs of persons supported, coordinating resources, securing necessary funds and ensuring that activities are completed and appropriately documented.
• Supports provision of appropriate, therapeutically documented levels of supervision to ensure and protect the health, safety and well-being of individuals at all times by ensuring updates and changes to levels of supervision for persons we support are regularly communicated to all staff and appropriately documented; may run shift meetings, assigning duties, completing shift sheet and making recommendations to ensure staff are qualified and able to maintain current prescribed levels of supervision.
• Understands and uses specialized clinical knowledge of person-specific needs and signs or symptoms of ailments/syndromes including mental health/medical conditions to provide effective supports to individuals, identify and elevate concerns to leadership and inform activities, training or specialized education or augmented trainings for staff.
• Stays up to date with current issues, diagnoses, needs and levels of supervision for the persons supported in assigned program under the supervision of BIS.
• Works with BIS to identify habilitative, behavioral and psychiatric needs of the persons supported and to ensure all programming and activities relating to clinical interventions are implemented consistently, in accordance with individualized plans.
• Provides guidance to program staff, setting the appropriate tone and ensuring that the standards of care are followed by modeling excellent counseling skills and interactions with persons supported and through use of person-centered philosophy and tools.
• Implements Behavior Support Plans, demonstrating understanding of behavior as communication and employing person-centered thinking to support positive interactions and prevent further escalation.
• Trains direct care staff individually, on the floor and/or in groups using the EMOE training system to support effective implementation of habilitative and behavioral programming by program staff through regular observations, direct feedback, communicating clinical rationales and ensuring appropriate data collection techniques.
• Serves as lead trainer for weekend staff and supports new staff in developing and demonstrating the OPWDD Core Competencies.
• Participates in the development of treatment plans including individualized habilitative plans, collaborating with BIS to write services, goals, outcomes and/or supports in accordance with the agency philosophy, as determined by assessments of individual needs and learning capabilities.
• Assists BIS with gathering and collecting data required to conduct formal and informal behavioral and habilitative assessments (written questionnaires, standardized tests, rating scales, baseline data, etc.) by conducting observations and/or soliciting information from other direct support staff, circles of support or other sources, as applicable.
• Monitors collection of data used to assess progress toward habilitative and behavioral goals, ensuring that new data sheets are accessible to staff at the beg

Job description

YAI is hiring Assistant Behavior Intervention Specialists (ABIS) in Brooklyn to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across home, family, YAI residences, day habilitation centers, and community settings. The role emphasizes person-centered supports, supervision, and community inclusion activities led by ABIS in collaboration with BIS and DSP teams.

The ABIS will implement Behavior Support Plans, provide direct supervision, and train staff to ensure safety,