Behavioral Technician

Sevita; Charleston (AR); On-site; USD 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Sevita’s Bright Light division seeks a Behavioral Technician to ensure behavior management programs are consistently implemented for individuals served. The role focuses on building rapport, teaching replacement behaviors, and collecting data to measure progress.

You will contribute to treatment goals, train staff on program updates, and ensure records are accurate. The position requires travel as needed and a high school diploma at minimum.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required; related field experience preferred.
• RBT credential preferred; CPR/First Aid certification as required.
• Valid driver’s license; car registration and insurance if transporting individuals served.

Responsibilities

• Builds rapport with persons served and follows treatment plan goals with sound judgment.
• Promotes safe replacement behaviors and develops communication/social/solution skills.
• Collects and reviews behavior data (ABC, frequency, duration, latency, etc.) and communicates findings to the supervisor.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation for staff and persons served.
• Completes incident reports as required and coordinates with clinical team for program updates.
• Participates in training, meetings, and rehab objectives as directed.

Skills

Rapport building

Behavior analysis basics

Data collection

Collaborative teamwork

Education

High School Diploma

Related field experience preferred

Job description

Bright Light, a part of the Sevita family, provides center-based Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and related disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career.

SUMMARY

The Behavioral Technician is responsible for ensuring behavior management programs are consistently implemented for people served.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

• Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationship by building rapport with the person served.
  • o Follow the treatment plan goals and interventions utilizing sound judgment and seeks out appropriate consultation.
  • o Collaborates with the family and treatment team members to provide behavior management techniques effectively and without disruption to the environment or other individuals in the environment.
  • o Educate parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information when requested.
  • o Maintain professionalism and composure at all times. Utilize appropriate interactional style with persons served and staff. Maintains dignity and respect for others.
• Promotes safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors in order to build a repertoire of communication, social interaction, and problem solving skills
  • o Promotes both successful and independent responding.
  • o Increases the frequency or duration of safe and appropriate replacement behaviors by providing access to reinforcers (desired items/actions, attention, or removal of demands/aversive situations).
• Reviews progress of people served objectively using behavior analytic methods, identifies solutions to barriers and makes recommendations to the supervisor and behavior analyst when needed.
  • o Accurately collects behavior data including: A-B-C, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval based recording as needed.
  • o Reassessment as appropriate
• Ensures all documentation, both staff and person served related is completed in a timely and accurate manner.
• Completes incident reports as required by agency policy and procedure.
• Reviews daily updates for person served such as new programs, access level changes, scheduled sessions, etc., implements programs and trains staff on implementation.
  • o Ensures proper implementation and retraining as needed by routinely communicating with staff.
• Schedules and prepares for leisure activities to keep persons served engaged and active when therapy sessions are not taking place.
• Participates in training from clinical staff on the implementation of program updates to assure rehabilitative objectives are achieved.
• Completes all mandatory trainings and refreshers as required.
• Attends clinical meetings as assigned such as access review meetings, clinical team meetings, progress conferences, etc.
  • o Responsible for providing up to date residential status of participants as well as identifying problem areas affecting the participant and following through with solutions based upon clinical team recommendations.
  • o Engages in the meetings, provides input, shares observations, opinions, concerns, ideas, etc.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.
  • o Completes all the mandatory training as per the new instructions.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma
• Preferred experience in related field

Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations

• RBT Credential preferred
• Current CPR/First Aid Certification as required
• Valid driver’s license in good standing. Car registration and vehicle insurance if providing transportation for individuals receiving services.

Other Skills and Abilities

• N/A

Other Requirements

• Travel as needed

Physical Requirements: Medium Work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We’ve made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law