Behavior Specialist

At Children’s Health Council, we believe in the promise and potential of every child, teen and young adult. Our mission is to transform young lives by providing culturally responsive best-in-class learning and mental health services to families from diverse backgrounds regardless of language, location, or ability to pay. We specialize in ADHD, Learning Differences, Anxiety & Depression and Autism. Our strategic priorities include: being people first and empowering our workforce, creating systems built on equity, access, and inclusion, elevating technology and strengthening our community partnerships.

• Do you like to work in an environment where we live our mission?
• Do you value celebrating our differences and learning from them?
• Are you passionate about the work you do?
• Are you looking to be empowered as a professional to help us grow as an organizational community?
• Are you a skilled cross-cultural communicator, helping cultivate a place of acceptance?
• Do you value cross-cultural competence and communication with individuals, teams, and systems within our organization?

If you can answer “yes” to these questions, this job could be for you!

• The Behavior Specialist will play a vital role in conducting, developing, and implementing/evaluating function-based positive behavior intervention plan plans (PBIP), as well as collaborating with each student’s assigned therapist to align therapeutic goals, IEP behavioral goals and the student’s personal goal. Reporting directly to the Behavior Program Manager, the Behavior Specialist will also complete initial incident report/behavior emergency report and submit in a timely fashion to Behavior Program Specialist within 24 hours after a behavior emergency.

• Implement and monitor the school wide Positive Behavior Training (PBT) management system at the classroom level.
• Train parents in effectively using the PBT within the home environment.
• Collect and analyze behavioral and replacement skill data.
• Conduct, develop, implement and evaluate function based positive behavior intervention plan plans (PBIP) as necessary.
• Regularly communicate with parents on each student’s engagement with the school’s behavior program, including successful demonstration of self-regulatory specifically when students incur consequences due to acute behavioral incidents during the school day.
• Develop, monitor progress and report on each student’s behavioral IEP goals and benchmark measures.
• Collaborate with each student’s assigned therapist to align therapeutic goals, IEP behavioral goals and the student’s personal goal.
• Monitor and report on each student’s behavioral performance as it relates to the student’s behavioral IEP goals.
• Prepare a written summary, update goals and participate in IEP meetings and parent/teacher conferences.
• With the classroom teacher, co-facilitate weekly team meetings.
• Attend all school staff meetings, behavior department meetings, and IEP meetings.
• Co-facilitate three formal parent conferences for each student every year with follow up written summary; communicate progress via phone and email as necessary.
• Attend weekly or bi-weekly group supervision and individual supervision meetings with Behavior Program Manager.
• Complete initial incident report/behavior emergency report and submit in a timely fashion to Behavior Program Specialist within 24 hours after a behavior emergency.
• Conduct daily check-ins with students and prepare daily PBT school-to-home communication.
• Support students in weekly Therapy Activity Group and Art therapy sessions.
• Provide direction to classroom assistant in implementation of Positive Behavior Intervention Plans (PBIP), data collection procedures, and utilization of PBT.
• Under the guidance of Behavior Program Manager, prepare and conduct weekly social skill lessons.
• Following training, execute procedures prescribed for behavior emergencies and/or escalating crises.
• Perform other related duties as required and assigned.
• Ensure that school policies and procedures are carried out.
• Ensure that CA Educational Code is adhered to.
• Adheres to CHC Employee Handbook.
• Ensure the Child Abuse and…