Behavior Technician

Sevita•West Boylston, MA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Futures, a part of the Sevita family, provides community and center-based Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) services to individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other related disorders. For over 15 years, they've provided a collaborative, team-based approach dedicated to helping children and families reach their fullest potential. The Behavioral Technician is responsible for ensuring behavior management programs are consistently implemented for people served. Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care, believing that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. They provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face. With over 50 years of mission and 40,000 team members, they serve 50,000 individuals all over the U.S.

Requirements

High School Diploma
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

Experience in related field
RBT Credential preferred

Responsibilities

Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationship by building rapport with the person served.
Follow 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.
Educate parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information when requested.
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.
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.