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Do you have a heart to help the neurodivergent community? Interested in a career path to becoming a Board Certified Bahavior Analyst? Becoming a Clinical Apprentice is the perfect position for you! Come join our West Lafayette team as a Clinical Apprentice who is responsible for assisting an assigned Clinical BCBA with indirect supervision tasks for a case load of patients. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Qualifications and Skills Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree required. 

Preferred Qualifications:

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position helps to supervise the Technicians working with their assigned Clinical BCBA’s caseload of patients. 

Condition of Employment 

Work Environment

Position operates in a clinical environment. This role routinely uses standard office and audiovisual equipment. The environment is open with bright lights and active patients that result in a loud environment. Position may also operate at offsite locations including a patient’s home, school, or place of employment. This role will be expected to work at multiple sites with different patient profiles, including a range of ability level(s) presenting challenging behaviors.

This position is not eligible for telecommuting. 

Physical & Psychological Demands

The physical & psychological demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. This position is required to work with special needs/disabled patients, who can be aggressive based upon their diagnosis. It is a physically active position, working with patients of varied activity levels and movement. Patients will move throughout the building to various locations during therapy. 

Employees will be required to implement appropriate behavior management techniques as prescribed by patient’s behavior plan. This will include physical management procedures in response to aggressive or unsafe behaviors. Employees must successfully demonstrate techniques learned during Crisis De-escalation and Intervention (CDI) training within the first few weeks of employment and annually thereafter. 

Employees must be flexible and adaptive to working with multiple patients with different patient profiles, including a range of ability level(s) presenting challenging behaviors.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to meet the following demands.

Physical requirements:

• Exhibiting physical agility such as walk/run/climb stairs; sit/stand for long periods time; dodge/lunge/pivot/shuffle; have quick reaction time / move quickly; bend at waist, in all directions; be able to sit on floor with legs extended, then lean back supporting weight on elbow; be able to lay flat on floor, facing down; be able to get up from floor to stand quickly, without assistance of wall, chair or pushing themselves up with their hands
• Lifting/pushing/pulling at least 50 lbs.
• Enduring high levels of constant physical activity

Psychological requirements:

• Patient behaviors may precipitate and/or impact an employee’s personal mental health. This role may not be suitable for people with certain behavioral health conditions (e.g., PTSD, Anxiety, Bipolar, etc.).
• Must remain calm and focused under pressure 

Other requirements: 

• Supervise employee’s patient consistently and independently 
• Be able to work with patients who may be larger in height and/or weight than employee
• Must be able to provide personal care assistance, including hygiene and toileting support, and work in environments where exposure to bodily fluids (including urine, feces, vomit, saliva, mucus, and other bodily secretions) is expected, while adhering to safety procedures.

Travel 

Travel to satellite sites, patient’s homes, and/or training events or conferences may be required.