What are the responsibilities and job description for the ABA Instructor position at The Stepping Stones?
Join Community Autism Services (CAS), a division of The Stepping Stones Group, and our passionate team of professionals working with children with autism to help them lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives!
Job Summary
As an ABA Instructor (ABAI), you will operate within a school setting for the purpose of modeling and training school staff in evidence-based methodologies that fall under the umbrella of Applied Behavioral Analysis, as well as improving the educational experience for students by assisting Case Managers and teachers by implementing a supportive curriculum using ABA principles.
Pay: $43,000 - $50,000 per year
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Modeling of ABA methodologies and principles for school personnel across assigned caseload
- Training and reliability on data collection across team members
- Written behavioral and educational programming
- Data collection and graphical display of all target behaviors/skills
- Model and support crisis management intervention if/when needed
- Participate in supervisory and job performance competencies based on these afore mentioned job roles and individualized when needed to build up skill sets for further career development
Essential Behavior Requirements
These behaviors are based on Community Autism Services cultures and values critical to support the mission of the organization.
Leaders in the field of ABA: We hold ourselves accountable to be leaders in our own field of influence, evidenced by our commitment to current research, proactively disseminating our standard of quality, innovating, and ultimately ongoing continuous improvement as well as excelling in our science beyond industry standards.
Effective: Enabling clients to overcome barriers to learning so they may learn, communicate, and participate more effectively utilizing the principles of behavior analysis to maximize their lifelong outcomes. We make positive changes in families' lives and we attract those motivated by contributing towards that change on a regular basis. We can prove our effectiveness through data and results!
Collaborative: We partner with our internal teams to support, help, destress, motivate, and communicate in a way that allows everyone to succeed both internally in our CAS family and externally with our clients, schools, and families. Our approachable team focuses on cultivating long- term working relationships.
Family First: When you are part of our CAS family we recognize and appreciate you have your own family to care for. With strength at home, you can be a better member of the CAS family. We allow a work-life balance, flexibility, and understanding when it comes to family.
Work Hard/Play Hard: We earn our fun! We expect a lot, but we give a lot! We love to celebrate our staff and teams!
Minimum Qualifications
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in a related field to behavior analysis or education including special education, child development and psychology among others
- Minimum three years' experience working with children and/or youths in education or ABA
- Minimum one year experience implementing and training others on the implementation of ABA
Language Skills
Ability to read, analyze and interpret common scientific and technical journals. Ability to communicate effectively to common inquiries or complaints from clients.
Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar or line graphs.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
- Board Certified Assistant Behavioral Analyst (BCaBA) or Board-Certified Behavior Analyst
- (BCBA) preferred but not required
- Level 4/5 RBT preferred
Community Autism Services (CAS), a division of The Stepping Stones Group, is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, or sex.
Salary : $43,000 - $50,000
