Description

Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity with children with special needs? Do you want to join a team with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing applied behavioral analysis and positive behavior supports? Do you want to join an organization that is focused on Servant Leadership?

If you answered YES, then consider joining the Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team!

Being a School Based Consultant BCBA with Devereux’s Center for Effective Schools for the Kingston School District has its advantages

You will be in a 12 month position, supporting students in a school district within elementary and secondary classrooms and programs.

• An opportunity to provide consultation and training to classroom staff, other educators, school administrators, and families.

• The ability to conduct functional behavioral assessments and develop positive behavior support plans for students with a variety of needs.

• Supervision responsibilities for Registered Behavior Technicians and those in training.

• A great atmosphere with a mission-driven culture that supports others that have extra-ordinary needs.

The Center for Effective Schools

The mission of the Center for Effective Schools (CES) is to build capacity in schools for serving children with, or at-risk for developing, emotional and behavioral disorders. This mission is accomplished through training, consultation, new model program development, and applied research. The CES subscribes to a multi-tiered (universal, secondary, and tertiary) prevention and intervention approach to service delivery. Populations served through CES include, but are not limited to, students and staff within primary and secondary public schools and districts; parents of school-aged children; pre-referral intervention teams; intermediate units; approved private day schools; and other non-profit organizations focused on education and violence prevention. Services include training and technical assistance for School-wide Positive Behavior Support, class-wide positive behavior support including Strengthening Emotional Support Services for emotional support classrooms, interventions for non-classroom settings including the Lunchroom Behavior Game, Response-to-Intervention, as well as individual student services including Functional Behavior Assessment, Curriculum Based Measurement, and general academic and behavioral assessment to generate empirically based behavior and academic support plans. CES staff members pride themselves on being consumer-driven by developing programs that are tailored to meet the needs of the individual, schools, and districts they serve.

Essential functions and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Consultation

• Training’

• Direct Assessment and Support Planning

• Supervision

• Documentation

Keywords: BCBA, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, Kingston School District, supervision, data applied behavior analysis, Special Education, Emotional Support Classroom, Special Needs, Behavioral Health, Developmental Disabilities

Qualifications

Our Ideal Candidate :

• Master’s degree from a behaviorally-based, accredited college/university in education, psychology or other related field; Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or credentialed or enrollment in a graduate program leading to a BCBA.

• Experience in the direct delivery of behavior analytic services to students with emotional and behavioral disorders.

• Comprehensive knowledge of Applied Behavior Analysis;

• Prior experience conducting Functional Behavior Assessments and developing Positive Behavior Support Plans.

• Willingness to travel in school district settings.

• Valid driver’s license must be maintained

• Servant Leader with exceptional customer service skills and accountability.

Posted Date 3 weeks ago (3/9/2023 1:09 PM)

Requisition ID 2023-29567

Category Clinical

Position Type Full-Time

Remote No

The employment policies of Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health are to recruit and hire qualified employees without discrimination because of race, religion, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, ancestry, disability, veteran status, communication ability, gender identity or expression or sexual orientation and to treat them equally with respect to compensation and opportunities for advancement - including upgrading, promotion and transfer - consistent with individual skills and the needs of Devereux.