Behavior Technician

Sevita•West Boylston, MA

About The Position

The Behavioral Technician is responsible for ensuring behavior management programs are consistently implemented for people served. This role involves establishing and maintaining therapeutic relationships, following treatment plan goals, collaborating with families and treatment teams, and educating parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information. The technician must maintain professionalism, promote safe and socially acceptable replacement behaviors, and objectively review progress using behavior analytic methods. They are also responsible for accurate data collection, timely documentation, completing incident reports, reviewing daily updates for individuals served, implementing programs, and training staff. Additionally, the role includes scheduling and preparing for leisure activities, participating in training, completing mandatory training, and attending clinical meetings. The technician will provide up-to-date participant status, identify problem areas, and follow through with solutions based on clinical team recommendations. They are expected to engage in meetings, provide input, share observations, opinions, concerns, and ideas. Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Requirements

High School Diploma
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.
Travel as needed

Nice To Haves

Preferred experience in related field

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationship by building rapport with the person served.
Follows the treatment plan goals and interventions utilizing sound judgment and seeks out appropriate consultation.
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.
Educates parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information when requested.
Maintains professionalism and composure at all times.
Utilizes 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.
Promotes both successful and independent responding.
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.
Accurately collects behavior data including: A-B-C, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval based recording as needed.
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.
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.
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.
Engages in the meetings, provides input, shares observations, opinions, concerns, ideas, etc.
Performs other related duties and activities as required.