Behavioral Technician Jobs

About The Position

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 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.