Are you looking for a fun and engaging way to spend your time? Do you want to work with awesome kids facing some learning and behavioral challenges? Is working for a non-profit agency important to you? If your answer is "Yes." then we want you on our Faces behavioral therapy team.
PACE is seeking an enthusiastic and energetic BCBA to provide behavioral support and program development for our Faces early intervention and school age clients located in the Santa Clara / San Jose area. As a clinical supervisor, you will oversee and manage direct care staff providing ABA programs for children on the Autism Spectrum.
Essential Functions:
- Provide behavior consultation and services to children in therapy sessions at Faces' clinic, clients' homes, and schools.
- Collaborate with other BCBAs to provide supervision, train behavior therapists and present monthly training sessions.
- Develop and review functional and motivational behavior assessments, behavioral plans and interventions. Must be able to develop and implement a system to collect and graph behavioral information and interpret behavioral data.
- Conduct assessments for potential clients and submit insurance paperwork as necessary; complete treatment plans and updates as needed for clients.
- Conduct on-site and direct observation of children's behavior and track progress, presenting suitable data assessment for the condition.
- Model the skillful usage of basic behavioral procedures including: differential reinforcement, appropriate ratio of reinforcement to instructions, behavior specific praise, reinforcement sampling, generative teaching incidental and natural environment teaching, effective prompting, discrete trial instruction, and behavior reduction procedures.
Requirements:
- Education: Must possess MA/MS degree in field of Behavior Analysis or related field
Certification: Must be a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or sitting for the exam within 3 months
- Experience: Must have worked successfully as a lead Behavior Therapist or equivalent, meeting all training competencies, for at least two years. Extensive experience in ABA programming with the autism population including traditional teaching methods (e.g. discrete trial) and naturalistic/incidental teaching and the verbal behavior approach.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in understanding behavior (ABA) literature for program development and implementation. Experience with VB-MAPP, ABLLS, Essential for Living Assessment and/or other developmental assessment/tracking tools. Ability to accurately record and report monthly billing.
- Communication Skills: The position requires excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to be playful, creative, energetic and enthusiastic. Strong writing skills are necessary to document treatment sessions.
- Management and Organizational Skills: Must have the ability to develop and implement written treatment directions and collect and interpret numeric data. Clinical Supervisors must possess the skills to track and follow up with multiple simultaneous projects and effectively train and supervise a team of employees.
- Driver: Must possess a valid California driver's license with a good driving record, proof of insurance, access to a vehicle and willing to travel to and from therapy sessions, meetings and the office/clinic up to 20 miles.
Benefits of working at PACE
- Small, casual and collaborative work environment with high employee morale
- Highly respected nonprofit
- Clients' sessions are typically scheduled between 8am and 6pm Monday through Friday. Opportunities for flexible hours and some evening and weekend work available.
- Reasonable client load with time to work on administrative tasks (100-110 billable hours/month)
- Annual stipend for professional development
- Well-trained staff with high retention rate.
- Competitive salary and mileage reimbursement
- Full-time employees are eligible for accrued paid sick and vacation leave as well as medical, dental and vision insurances and 40k(b) match.
Physical Requirements
- Ability to lift and/or push 60 pounds
- Ability to physically bend, squat, reach over shoulders and head, kneel, sit, walk on normal or uneven surfaces and stand.
- Drive to schools, homes and office/clinic as needed
- Perform office work
- Obtain and maintain a clear DOJ/FBI clearance and clear physical health and TB test once offer is accepted.
Sign on bonus is paid after hire and after active BCBA certification is confirmed. Bonus may be tied to retention requirements.