Residential Behavior Specialist

Residential Behavior Specialist

Main Campus
- Maple Home
- Palatine, IL 60067

Salary Range $28.00 Hourly Position Type Full Time Job Shift All Schedules - AMs/PMs/Nights/Wkds

Under the clinical supervision of Behavior Therapist Coordinator and/or a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) and administrative supervision of a Home Manager the primary duty of a Residential Behavior Specialist is assisting youth with maximizing skill-acquisition in Activities of Daily Living (ADLs), through individualized intensive implementation strategies aligned with the youths Person-Centered Plan goals and personal outcome measures. This will include positive behavior supports to reduce challenging behaviors, enhance safety with an emphasis on individualizing daily task analyses, discrete trials, errorless teaching via intensive 1:1 direct instruction, program supports, and data collection.

The position will work with youth in an intensive intervention residential environment with youth requiring highly intensive behavioral support needs as a result of exhibiting extreme physical aggression towards oneself and others.

Residential Behavior Specialists provide instruction to the youths through the implementation of the scientific principles of behavior analysis (ABA therapy) across all hours of the youths day and in all environments to improve Quality of Life outcomes. This includes knowledge and implementation of youths clinical, educational, vocational, and daily living skills objectives. Thorough competence of the theoretical components and practical applications of behavior analysis is critical to the successful performance of a Residential Behavior Specialist and the education for the youth.

Intensive instruction is provided for Residential Behavior Specialists to gain competence in the following: discrete trial teaching, task analysis training, incidental teaching procedures; data collection and analysis and methods of increasing, decreasing, and shaping various behavior repertoires.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

The list of essential duties and responsibilities, as outlined herein, is intended to be representative of the task to be performed. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning duties not listed herein, if such duties are a logical assignment to the position.

• Residential Behavior Specialist work as part of an interdisciplinary team of professionals who develop curricula and provide instruction to maximize youths skills and independence.
• Implement behavior analytic teaching procedures in the residence and community including:
  Discrete trials Task analyses Incidental teaching Direct Instruction
• Implement behavior analytic teaching procedures across all domain areas to improve Quality of Life outcomes including:
  Independence skills:
  Communication Activities of Daily Living (ADLs; e.g., personal hygiene) Social skills Vocational skills Leisure and recreation skills Adaptive physical education Community Self-preservation
• Individualize lesson plans and teaching procedures to accommodate each youths learning style such as:
  Prompting and fading strategies Reinforcement Shaping Errorless teaching
• Collaborate with school staff to ensure that skills generalize to other people, different environments and to relevant activities.
• Providing youth skill-acquisition through the implementation behavior analytic procedures to teach appropriate functional alternatives to challenging behavior through a variety of means including:
  Functional Communication Training Differential Reinforcement of Alternative behavior Tolerating delays Problem solving Self-management
• Trains Life Skills Instructors in the Child Bridge Center for Group Home Living for youths transitioning to less restrictive environments, and disseminating youth assessment information to the team.
• Assists with the development, implementation, and/or monitoring educational curricula, including, but not limited to, completing core skills and other educational assessments.
• Actively participates in regular clinical and team meetings.
• Collaborates with other home staff, Teachers, Case Managers, Speech & Language Pathologists, Behavior Analysts, Occupational Therapists, Nursing staff, and other team members in providing effective and efficient services to youths including, but not limited to, implementation of behavior, communication, and sensory plans.
• Assists with the development of youths families in-home programs.
• Assists with the…