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ResCare Community Living, a part of the Sevita family, provides quality services that empower individuals, enhance independence, and help people live well. Since 1974, we've supported individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to live more independently at home and in their community. With our dedicated team and experienced staff, we provide person-centered services that help people build skills, overcome challenges, and reach their full potential.
SUMMARY
The Behavioral Technician is responsible for ensuring behavior management programs are consistently implemented for people served.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:
• Establishes and maintains therapeutic relationship by building rapport with the person served.
o Follow the treatment plan goals and interventions utilizing sound judgment and seeks out appropriate consultation.
o 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.
o Educate parents/guardians on reinforcement and intervention information when requested.
o 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
o Promotes both successful and independent responding.
o 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.
o Accurately collects behavior data including: A-B-C, count, frequency, duration, latency, inter-response time, event, and interval based recording as needed.
o 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.
o 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.
o 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.
o Engages in the meetings, provides input, shares observations, opinions, concerns, ideas, etc.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None
Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:
Education and Experience:
• High School Diploma
• Preferred experience in related field
Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:
• 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.
Other Skills and Abilities:
• N/A
Other Requirements:
• Travel as needed
Physical Requirements:
• Medium Work. Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 30 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT
External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodation to be determined on a case by case basis via the interactive process.
Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.
We've made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.
As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.