Job Abstract

You have devoted immense energy to get your certification from the Board. You studied and practiced, and memorized and calculated your data. You can work anywhere. Why would you come to a large residential and educational provider like Grafton?

Because this is where the rubber hits the road.

The clients we serve are enormously complicated. Their families have not been able to get the services they need, or have not been able to follow through on the services that were provided. The school was overwhelmed by the significance of the person’s needs. The community was not able to adequately engage and support this individual. They may have been hospitalized in a facility that was not designed for their special needs. Everyone thought they were nearing the end of the road.

Grafton provides solutions.

As part of multidisciplinary team you are encouraged to be creative. You are encouraged to take a multi-faceted approach to care. We value behaviorism as much as we value psychotherapeutic techniques. We believe a child with autism can learn mindfulness skills, and develop insights into their behavior. We also believe that trained behaviorists like yourself are the best “detectives” to help us understand what is driving the cycle.

If you are seeking this type of innovative, multidisciplinary, and essentially mission-driven type of practice setting, we think you’ll be very happy here. You will experience remarkable complexity, met with remarkable creativity.

We know that you have a choice. Our benefits are competitive and comprehensive. We value life-long education – we want you to continue to grow. Our schedules are flexible (as we are a 24/7 treatment setting). We will provide opportunities for unheard of experiences, like participation in our Ukeru ™ consulting division, which trains organizations throughout the United States and Canada in our approach to care and crisis management. Teams from Grafton have consulted on cases as far afield as Australia (it’s a very, very long flight). We are engaged in expansion opportunities in Maryland and Minnesota as we speak.

Consider us! Be a part of this mission! Direct your talents and skills to those who so desperately need them! Take a look at what our team did for this lad!

For formality’s sake, here is our dry as a bone job description:

GENERAL STATEMENT OF THE JOB

Embodies an open, collaborative, and trauma informed approach to ABA services. Acts as an expert in their field and sets an example within the program at large to contribute to a positive work culture and a trauma informed treatment environment for all clients. The BCBA will be flexible in their role to provide supervision, direct service, consultation, and other field related duties as needed for the program. Duties may include but are not limited conducting assessments, overseeing treatment planning and service delivery, supporting classrooms and group home interventions and crises from a behavioral perspective, family-based supports and services, and participating in a multi-disciplinary team. BCBA will be expected to function within a team-based environment and to collaborate with mental health clinicians to ensure that trauma informed care is integrated into all aspects of client care. BCBA will support continuation of care and treatment fidelity through ongoing supports with both the residential and academic staff, as needed and when assigned. Works with IEP, Community FAPT funding, and Medicaid based funding sources. Reports to the Clinical Administrator.

SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Promotes a person-centered approach to treatment:

• Works with families and other involved guardians/stakeholders to support continuity of care and family involvement in client’s treatment process
• Respects the personal goals of individuals served with ultimate goal of improving quality of life for the individual served and his/her care providers
• Identifies behaviors that are barriers to the person’s desired goals and safety
• Develops programs that derive from the individual’s strengths
• Provides family training
• Uses a positive intervention model that minimizes physical intervention and punishment
• Collaborates closely with multi-disciplinary team and mental health clinician to ensure a shared understanding of the client’s needs and strengths

Assesses the function of behavior:

• Ensures that a functional assessments and other related assessments are completed for each assigned individual, and in accordance to timelines
• Conducts assessment measures in a variety of settings, to include home and community
• Familiarizes oneself with and utilizes direct assessment tools to measure behavior:
• May conduct a functional analysis of behavior
• Selects and uses appropriate data methods when assessing behavior through direct observation (ABC, time sampling, event recording)
• Utilizes direct assessment measurement tools current in the field of ABA:
• VB-MAPP
• ABLLS-R
• ADOS-II
• Determines the contextual influences on behavior:
• physical environment
• staff relationships
• physical conditions
• Identifies and writes behavior plans in coordination with their multi-disciplinary team to address the function of the behavior(s) targeted and ensuring a positive, trauma informed implementation of services

• Make treatment recommendations according to assessment results and write a clinical assessment summary as required for treatment authorization; attend meetings with funding sources to appropriately request service changes

Evaluates and documents client progress and program effectiveness:

• Creates data sheets and supervises the collection of progress data as it is recommended within the treatment plan
• Makes adjustments to behavioral goals and objectives as needed
• Documents, summarizes and reports on progress data at least monthly
• Creates and updates treatment and service discharge plans on a routine basis
• Actively participates in and acts as a leader and collaborative partner within monthly treatment plan review meetings with all treatment team members
• Prepares and submits monthly/quarterly treatment plan progress reports, according to billing requirements
• On an individual client basis, provide initial and ongoing training to Behavior Specialist staff assigned to deliver ABA treatment effectively and consistently:
  • Treatment plan procedures
  • ABA treatment session expectations and scheduling
  • Monitoring service delivery for assigned cases and continuously communicating with Clinical administrator about status of delivered services/service capacities
  • Data collection and graphing techniques
  • Family and related service provider training

Supports staff development:

• Mentors behavior specialists who do not yet have certification, and provide appropriate supervision and consultation on cases that they manage
• Teaches positive behavior support strategies that can be universally applied
• Provides insight on how we each influence the people around us with our own behaviors
• Models interdisciplinary and intradisciplinary collaboration, communication, and professionalism
• Teach/train staff on the principles of behavior
• Teaches appropriate and efficient methods of data collection
• Teaches alternative strategies to avoid the use of physical interventions aligned with Grafton’s Ukeru crisis intervention model
• Teach/train staff on the need for environmental modifications
• Teach/train staff on prevention techniques
• Teach/train staff on antecedents and consequences strategies

• Participates in professional development activities to maintain current knowledge of the field and needs of individuals served
• Attends meetings as required
• Participates in work groups as assigned
• Completes other duties as assigned

MINIMUM TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE

• Must have a Master’s in a human services field and
• Current board certification as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst from the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB).
• Requires a valid driver's license.
• Requires Licensure by the Board of Medicine (Virginia only).

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

• Medical, dental and vision
• Flexible Spending & Health Savings Accounts
• 401(k), including an employer match up to $2,500 annually
• Generous Paid Time Off plan
• Education Assistance up to $5,250 annually
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Short-term disability (STD)
• Long-term disability (LTD)
• As Grafton is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, you may be eligible for federal student loan forgiveness

COMPENSATION

• From $69,992.00 up to $104,436.80 commensurate with experience and qualifications

If you have issues applying or have any questions about this position, please reach out to us at HR@Grafton.org or 540-542-0200.

Grafton is an equal employment opportunity employer and tobacco-free workplace.

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