DSP/Behavior Therapist

Full Time
Neptune City, NJ
From $30 an hour
Posted
Job description

We are seeking skilled DSP/Behavior Therapists for our clinic located in West Long Branch. We have openings that are Part Time and Full Time. Additionally, this is for our Early Intervention age learners and adult learner. The hours are M-F anywhere between 8 am and 4:30 pm, though you will only need to work a 6 or 8 hour shift.

The DSP/Behavior Therapist will be responsible for providing applied behavior analysis therapy services to assigned students, under the supervision of a BCBA. The behavior therapist will have experience working with children. Behavior Therapists will have an interest in teaching language, play, and skill-based tasks from curricula. Behavior Therapists will have experience working 1:1 with learners with autism and behavior challenges across educational and community settings. Full time behavior therapists will not work for other agencies providing ABA therapy while working full time with Graham Behavior Services. Duties/Responsibilities: Billable Services: (Minimum 25 hours per week) ● Provides intensive individualized ABA therapy services directed toward the development and/or enhancement of skills necessary for emotional, cognitive, behavioral, language, and interpersonal growth of the student. ● Uses appropriate applied behavior teaching, communication, and reinforcement procedures consistently. ● Attend all schedule sessions and clinics. ● Accurately completes all required documentation including data collection daily and daily session notes. ● Provides the intervention accurately as described in the client’s Behavior Intervention or Treatment Plan. ● Assists the BCBA in devising strategies for skill acquisition or behavior reduction based on an understanding of the individual student, his/her needs, interests, abilities and best practices in ABA. ● Inform parents about daily routine, expectations, or incidents that have been observed and/or recorded on site. ● Updates BCBA with set updates, needed materials, and needed program changes. ● Assists BCBA to help resolve issues or concerns that are raised by parents and staff. ● Maintains open communication with parents including scheduling home programming. ● Maintains open communication with BCBA and other therapists. ● Properly documents session cancellations. ● Participates in vendor events as required by Graham Behavior Services. ● Prepares PowerPoint slideshows for monthly staff training and presents the training, as required. ● Attends meetings, events, group calls, training, workshops, and seminars as required by Graham Behavior Services. ● Contributes to Graham Behavior Services podcast script and/or recordings. ● Completes other related projects and duties as assigned. Additional Duties: ● Completes incident reports as needed. ● Checks Graham Behavior Services email address daily from Monday through Friday. ● Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information related to the student as is expected of BCBAs. ● Monitors children for signs of child abuse, and reports incidents of suspected abuse to supervisor immediately. ● Informs BCBA supervisor of any problems or concerns with staff, clients, client’s family, and systems or procedures used by Graham Behavior Services.

Required Skills and Abilities: ● Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff and the families. ● Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing. ● Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks/goals. ● Effective written and verbal communication skills with individuals and groups ● at all professional levels. ● Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Experience: ● Experience using appropriate applied behavior teaching, communication, and reinforcement procedures consistently. ● Experience in behavior analytic principles and applying these principles of ABA to create effective, socially significant changes in the client’s behavior repertoire. ● Collecting, graphing, analyzing, displaying and discussing data based progress is a must. Education and Training: ● Possession of a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Special Education, or a related field, or pursuit of a Bachelor’s Degree in one of these areas. ● Minimum two years experience providing Applied Behavior Analysis services to individuals with developmental disabilities. ● Possession or pursuit of RBT certification through the BACB, as deemed necessary by Graham Behavior Services. ● Possession of a valid driver’s license Physical Requirements ● Ability to travel to various client locations. ● Must be capable and knowledgeable about handling individuals in crisis. ● Must be able to engage in physical duties of this job. The Behavior Therapist is regularly required to sit and talk or hear and is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision. ● Must be able to lift and push a minimum of 50 pounds and receive crisis management training, as needed. Must alert Directors if you are unable to physically engage in any of the crisis management procedures.

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: From $30.00 per hour

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Employee discount
  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Professional development assistance
  • Referral program
  • Retirement plan
  • Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

  • Day shift
  • Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

  • Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

  • Neptune City, NJ: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

  • ABA/BT/DSP: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: In person

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