Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Position: Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Department: The Grace School by Children's TEAM

Supervisor: Director of The Grace School

Board Certified Behavior Analyst’s (BCBA) provide behavior analytic services in accordance with the Behavior Analyst Certification Board ‘s (BACB) professional and ethical compliance code. A BCBA is responsible for ensuring their clients receive evidence-based, least intrusive, effective treatment procedures that incorporate behavior analytic principles.

About Children’s Therapy T.E.A.M.

At Children’s Therapy T.E.A.M. our mission is to serve children and families with passion. We believe in kids... their unique talents, personalities, and potentials. As the leading pediatric therapy provider in Northwest Arkansas, we embrace children's new triumphs every day. We first opened our doors almost 20 years ago and have continued to pour our hearts into providing the very best services for families ever since.

Quality of Life

More than just a fulfilling career working for a great company, BCBA's at Children's Therapy T.E.A.M. live in beautiful, vibrant Northwest Arkansas communities. The area is ranked #4 on US News and World Report's Top 125 places to live in America.

The T.E.A.M. BCBA Difference

Children’s Therapy T.E.A.M. offers BCBAs an engaging and diverse caseload of clients representing varied diagnoses and age levels. Our culture is driven by quality individualized care. Our BCBAs are able to amplify the scope of their impact through collaborating with members of our PT, OT, and SLP TEAM.

We’re Looking For a BCBA Who Is:

• Energetic and passionate about ABA

• Skilled with implementation, monitoring, collection, and evaluation of data

• Able to evaluate the efficacy of treatment

• Open to working in a clinical setting and in-home as a provider

• Effective with facilitation of a TEAM approach in trainings with parents, staff, and community members

• Capable of effectively demonstrating the implementation of therapy

• Competent with crisis intervention

Interdisciplinary Care

Our TEAM of BCBA’s, SLP’s, PT’s, OT’s, and equipment specialists offer an integrated approach to care that transforms both the provider and patient experience.

Flexibility

We take the stress out of billing and scheduling with negotiated billing and flexible scheduling. A therapists’ work-life balance is an important part of providing great care for our employees and clients.

Mentoring

Our mentor program provides collaborative support for new team members. Each new team member is paired with a mentor dedicated to offering a hand, lending an ear, and serving as a guide. We’re all about teamwork!

The Forefront of Care in NWA and Beyond

Children’s Therapy T.E.A.M. continues to be at the forefront of introducing a holistic, multidisciplinary approach to pediatric therapy care in Northwest Arkansas. We work tirelessly everyday to bring new services to families. We were the first pediatric clinic in the region to offer BCBA-led professional developments for all of our therapists. Additionally, our BCBAs, PTs, OTs, and SLPs have traveled the globe making a difference through our TEAMworks non-profit outreach.

Faith-Based Mission of Servant-Leadership

Our TEAM members’ shared vision of Servant-Leadership is lived out through our efforts to act with humility, communicate with care, embrace empathy, value integrity, and set the example for all those we encounter. The T.E.A.M. motto “Together Everyone Achieves More” not only applies to our therapy work with children and families, but also to our desire to foster a great spirit of support and camaraderie.

Job Description

Assessment

• Conducts criterion-based client assessments (VB-MAPP, ABLLS-R, AFLS, etc.) at intake and for ongoing reauthorizations to identify treatment priorities and gauge progress.

• Conducts parent/caregiver interviews and assessments (i.e., Vineland) at intake and at least annually identifies maladaptive behavior priorities and skill acquisition goals.

• Conducts Functional Behavior Assessments (i.e., FAST, QABF, FAI, etc.) and designs, analyzes, and modifies ABA programs based on results and ongoing data.

• Conducts ABC data observations for target maladaptive behavior during initial and ongoing assessments.

Individual Treatment Plans

• Utilize assessments, observations, and parent/caregiver and RBT input to develop client initial and ongoing treatment plans and behavior intervention plans with objectives that focus on teaching and other antecedent strategies for reducing problematic behavior(s) and increasing skill acquisition.

• Responsible for the creation of evidence-based ABA interventions to meet treatment plan objectives including program materials and written teaching procedures that meet the technological dimension for effective treatment.

• Responsible for setting up data collection strategies for treatment plan objectives to enable real-time, online data gathering and analysis.

• Responsible for tracking client reauthorization deadlines to assure ongoing treatment plans are resubmitted in a timely manner and there is no disruption in services.

• Serves as a liaison for third party payers and responds promptly to requests for treatment plan clarification or requests for additional information.

Supervision

• Assists with orientation and ongoing training for BTs and RBTs.

• Completes the BACB RBT Initial Competency Assessment with new RBTs as requested.

• Mentors and supports BTs and RBTs and provides supervision to BCBA applicants as requested.

• Responsible for training and coaching RBT’s to assure program fidelity and data collection integrity.

• Responsible for registering RBT’s under supervision in the BACB website and keeping the information up to date.

• Responsible for meeting the BACB’s RBT supervision requirements each month including meeting the following:

1. A minimum of five percent of the hours each RBT spends providing behavior-analytic services each calendar month.

2. At least two face-to-face, real-time contacts per month (i.e., supervision may not occur over the phone or via email).

3. At least one of the monthly meetings must include observation of the RBT working with a client. In-person, on-site observation is preferred. However, these may be conducted via web cameras, video-conferencing, or similar means instead of being physically present.

4. At least one of the two supervision sessions must be individual but the other may occur in a small-group meeting. Small-group meetings are interactive meetings in which 2-10 RBTs who share similar experiences participate. The number of RBTs may not exceed 10, regardless of the number of supervisors present. If non-RBTs are present during the meeting, their participation should be limited to increase the interaction of RBTs.

• Responsible for properly documenting all RBT supervision sessions in Raintree.

Quality Treatment

• Responsible for meeting protocol modification weekly hour expectations as written in the initial and ongoing treatment plans to assure programs are implemented with integrity and data are reliable.

• Responsible for entering session notes within 48 hours of the protocol modification session.

• Billing expectations differ by caseload, however the standard expectation is a minimum of 25 hours per week which includes assessment, protocol modification, and/or parent training.

• Monitors treatment data and makes modifications as criteria for progress is met or a lack thereof.

• Conducts parent/caregiver training to meet expectations of the treatment plan.

• Keeps parents/caregivers up to date regarding the client’s progress and challenges for meeting treatment plan objectives.

• Seeks out input from TEAM’s Monthly BCBA Collaboration for peer review for client’s not making progress and/or experiencing high rates of maladaptive behavior.

• BCBAs are primarily responsible for the well being of clients and supporting behavior technicians, including during crisis situations.

Other Responsibilities

• Maintains BCBA certification including CEU requirements and meeting deadlines for BACB recertification application processes.

• Attends organizational training and meetings.

• Collaborates and coordinates client care including internal and external support and special services such as OT, SLP, teachers, and prescribing physicians.

• Meets at least monthly with supervisor to review progress and set goals.

• Assures schedule is entered into Raintree by Friday for the following week so RBTs are aware of supervisions and the Director of Behavioral Support & Special Services can coordinate BCBA training and supervision overlaps.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, and see. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, run, and sit.

• The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• The employee must have the ability to move quickly to keep pace with children and have the stamina to remain alert and energetic during therapy sessions.

• The applicant must have the physical ability to intervene with clients’ physical behaviors and have the ability to transport and physically support clients when needed for safety purposes.

TEAMwork

Reflect the guiding principles of TEAM through Servant Leadership in thoughts and actions:

Act with Humility: We strive for continuous growth, listening first, accepting guidance and direction from others, and learning throughout the span of our careers.

Communicate with Love: We foster relationships, remain communicative, initiate dialogue, ask questions, build understanding, and embrace an 80/20 approach in all our interactions.

Embrace Empathy: We display compassion, personally and professionally, by extending grace to others.

Value Integrity: We strive to be truthful and transparent, continually operating in a set of core values which are unwavering and display a life worth imitating.

Inspire Shared Visions: We are solution-minded in thinking, expressing a desire to hear others’ voices, ideas, and concerns.

Guide Team Dynamics: We identify the strengths and needs of our team, connecting, utilizing, and empowering one another. We seek ways to maintain peace and harmony.

Set the Example: We use evidence-based, professional best practices while intentionally creating a warm environment that encourages others to look to us for guidance.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Ability to Relocate:

• Fayetteville, AR 72703: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person