Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

YAI is a network of agencies offering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities a comprehensive range of services across all ages. YAI empowers people with disabilities to reach their goals every day. Our enthusiastic staff of 4,000 professionals believes that everyone has a fundamental right to live, love, work, and learn.

Key / Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Ensures the people we support receive appropriate mental health care and behavioral services and serves as a clinical resource to the interdisciplinary team.
• Identifies and communicates habilitative, behavioral, and psychiatric needs and collaborates with the interdisciplinary team to create person-centered plans that address all needs of the people we support
• Provides leadership, setting the tone and ensuring that performance standards are followed by all staff in the implementation and evaluation of Behavior Support Plans and models an approach that emphasizes positive behavior supports, person-centered practices and trauma-informed care in their practice
• Actively participates in treatment team and transition planning meetings and assists during behavioral crisis situations
• Conducts Functional Behavioral Assessments and other habilitative assessments.
• Develops and writes BSPs with input from the treatment team
• Establishes system for and trains staff on data collection and analysis related to behavior plans, monitors data collection and regularly analyzes and interprets data to evaluate effectiveness and progress toward goals
• Continually monitors implementation and efficacy of service plans and BSPs, and along with the Program Supervisor, the quality and effectiveness of behavioral services overall.
• Incorporates a variety of techniques to help with skill building- prompting, errorless teaching, maximizing learning opportunities, effective reinforcement, preference assessment and choice procedures.
• Delivers performance outcomes and transition metrics to oversight agencies, program leadership, the people we support, their families and support systems and / or other relevant internal and external staff as needed or required.
• Provides ongoing clinical supervision, oversight and training to staff working toward their RBT certification as per BACB Guidelines and ensures that staff have all the clinical materials necessary to perform their job.
• Facilitates ABA education and training to staff on how to implement / troubleshoot behavior plans.
• Provides ongoing consultation with families and circle of support to provide ABA education, train on implementation of the Behavior Intervention Plan, and support with generalization.
• Recommends and initiates referrals for necessary psychological or psychiatric consultations and evaluations
• Ensures that staff complies with all Federal, State, Local and other relevant regulatory agency requirements, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• May collaborate with the program leadership in the development of training programs for staff or develop and coordinate staff-wide trainings to increase knowledge of ABA and provide opportunities to create positive behavior strategies and develop skills
• May participate in hiring / interviewing of incoming behavior staff
• Performs all other duties, as assigned

Minimum Qualification Requirements including education, experience, licensure / certification, etc. and essential physical capabilities (e.g. lifting, assisting lifting, standing, etc.)

Preferred Qualification Requirements ( desired requirements beyond MQRs above)

Compensation

If you share our vision and want to help support people to live the fullest lives possible, YAI will be the right place for you.

For more information about the YAI Network, please visit our website at www.yai.org . Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran. YAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This role will require you to report to Southampton, NJ