Behavior Clinician

BrightSpring Health Services•Jeffersonville, IN

16h

About The Position

SpringHealth Behavioral Health and Integrated Care, an affiliate of BrightSpring Health Services, offers a holistic approach and integrated care for people with cognitive, developmental, or intellectual disabilities who often need additional resources. The therapy team executes customized treatment plans that deliver real results and exceed patients' expectations. The behavior analysts, therapists, social workers, counselors, and psychologists at SpringHealth combine their expertise to deliver high-quality behavioral services for clients to live more positive, active, and social lives. Candidates for this role are motivated to give clients a more positive quality of life.

Requirements

Masters degree in Psychology, Counseling, or related discipline.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence.
Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to individuals and other employees of the organization.
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to make independent decisions with good judgment and attention to detail.
Doctoral or Master’s Degree in Psychology, Counseling, or related discipline.
Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification is required.
Must be able to record/enter data neatly, accurately, and objectively; consistent with Oakwood requirements.
Must be able to participate and demonstrate their knowledge of approved crisis management procedures.

Responsibilities

Models and trains staff in the principles and practice of Positive Behavior Support methodology.
Serves as a member of Interdisciplinary Teams (IDTs) providing expertise re: behavioral issues.
Responsible for Behavior Plan assessment, design, training, monitoring, and reporting.
Conducts descriptive and systematic (e.g., analogue) behavioral assessments, including functional analyses, and provides behavior analytic interpretations of the results.
Provides direct behavioral treatment to clients via replacement skills training, social skills training, crisis de-escalation, group behavioral treatment, individual behavioral treatment, and/or skills coaching in all applicable settings
Participates in on-call rotation for behavior issues.
Monitors restraint use and provides training to reduce.
Monitors challenging behavior.
Participates in Behavior Intervention Committee, Human Rights Committee and other relevant committees, as assigned
Shall provide individualized services to meet the treatment needs of each of the specialty intermediate care (IC) clinic patients for services in field of care. Shall meet requirements of 902 KAR 20:410 Specialty Intermediate Care Clinics as warranted.
Learn and follow all policies and procedures.