Job Description

Job Description

PURPOSE:

The Mishkon Division provides supports and services in a healthy and safe environment for individuals with intellectual/ developmental disabilities living in residential programs and in community settings. Our core values are to provide a healthy and safe environment that promotes person centered planning, community integration, and close collaboration with families and the community. This is all accomplished through an Orthodox Jewish lens, and with an understanding that staff, at all levels of the division, is the determining factor in achieving positive outcomes for our clients.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The Behavior Specialist will design, implement and monitor the Behavior Management Programs, Instructional Goals and Valued Outcomes for all individuals using the Positive Approaches Paradigm. This individual must be familiar with OPWDD and DOH regulations as they apply to the ICF and IRA.

KEY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Administer and interpret the clients’ cognitive, social/motivational and adaptive living skills.
• Responsible for accurate data collection and summaries.
• Participate as an active member of the interdisciplinary team process.
• Compile paperwork and participate in Human Rights, team meetings, and Psych apts.
• Collaborate with the psychiatrists in monitoring psychotropic medications effects in conjunction with replacement behaviors and fading plans as applicable.
• Interact with the residential individuals on a daily basis.
• Maintain a case load of up to 35 individuals.
• Supervise and train direct support staff and managers in the implementation of behavior support plans and instruction goals/ valued outcomes.
• Communicate with the IDT regarding all aspects of behavior.
• Complete observations and trainings regarding behavior supports.

CORE COMPETENCIES :

• Must know how to write BSP and FBA’s

EDUCATIONAL/TRAINING REQUIRED:

• Master’s degree from a program in clinical and behavioral areas and training in assessment techniques and behavioral supports plan development, as well as, knowledge of ABA programs. Must meet the OPWDD and DOH requirements for both QIDP and BIS.
• Five years’ experience working with individuals with intellectual disabilities, including those dually diagnosed.
• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills, ability to engage staff.
• Organized with an ability to work independently to complete projects.
• Excellent writing and presentation, listening and problem solving skills.
• Excellent data analysis and presentation skills and proficiency with relevant software.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Strong computer skills are required. The ability to use Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are critical. The knowledge or ability to learn software programs including use of data and trends to inform clinical practice.

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:

• The visual and manual dexterity needed for this position include the ability to work on the computer typing reports and reviewing charts. There is also the need to speak frequently on the telephone including a cellular phone.

WORK ENVIRONMENT/PHYSICAL EFFORT:

The position requires the ability to travel from site to site to make program visits. There is walking in the residential programs up and down stairs and at times the ability to lift a social service chart/field

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