Lifespan Clinician One (Part Time) in Reading

When you work as a Lifespan Clinician One with Access Services, you will be working to access fieldwork hours towards clinical requirements as you deliver behaviour support services across child, adolescent, and adult populations. This dual-role position involves providing clinical direction, developing treatment plans, and conducting behavioural assessments for adults, while also implementing individualised behavioural interventions for children and adolescents under Intensive Behavioural Health Services (IBHS). The clinician will work closely with families and treatment teams to ensure effective plan execution and skill development, making a meaningful impact across the lifespan.

Functions of Lifespan Clinician One:

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of skills deficits and behavioural needs for participants identifying antecedents, potential functions of behaviour, possible environmental factors and analysing assessment findings to design behavioural support plans, individualised treatment plans and additional assessments as needed.
• Ensure that ongoing assessment of the function of behaviours and application of behaviour support principles and interventions occur during client sessions.
• Collaborate with participants, their family, and service teams to develop behaviour support plans that include positive practice and least restrictive interventions.
• Establish individualised treatment goals, objectives and interventions to address targeted behaviours.
• Review, analyse, and interpret data to determine any changes in behaviour.
• Adjust behaviour support plan, individualised treatment plan and additional assessments as needed to address targeted behaviours.
• Develop crisis intervention plans.
• Participate in team meetings.
• Emphasise the importance of treatment alert measures that allow for regular equipment checks, feedback to caregiver teams regarding efficacy of implementation, and reliability measures among all those staff/caregivers involved.
• Conduct comprehensive functional behavioural assessments of presenting issues.
• Design restrictive plans that adhere to ODP waiver and regulatory requirements and are developed and implemented through the philosophy of least restrictive intervention.
• Attend regularly scheduled ISP and quarterly meetings.
• Implement activities and strategies identified in the participant’s behaviour support plan including providing direct behavioural support, education and coaching to ensure interventions are implemented with clinical integrity.
• Complete required documentation related to data collection, progress reporting and development of annual planning.

Essential Functions within Intensive Behavioural Health Services:

• Provide support as outlined in each individualised treatment plan in home, school and community settings utilising approved interventions.
• Document case notes as required in the electronic health record.
• Focus service delivery on defined target and replacement behaviours and progress monitoring as it relates to planning for discharge from the initial session and carrying through the last day of service.
• Attend staff meetings as needed to debrief on progress and support needed for clients served.
• Participate in supervision as scheduled with supervisor, in location directed.
• Maintain annual training requirements as set forth by supervisor and behaviour support leadership.

Other:

• Maintain regular and predictable attendance and be available to meet program needs.
• Ability to travel during work shift to manage services in community.
• Provide service oversight and supervision.
• Employees drive their personal vehicle and/or an agency owned vehicle to meet these expectations.

Requirements and Qualifications for Lifespan Clinician One:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree or higher in psychology, special education, counselling, social work, education, applied behaviour analysis or gerontology is required.
• Certification and/or licensing: Completion of a 40-hour training covering the RBT Task List as evidenced by a certification that includes the name of the responsible trainer, who is certified as a board-certified behaviour analyst (BCBA) or BCaBA is required. Active certification as a registered behaviour technician (RBT) through the behaviour analyst certification board (BACB) is preferred. Candidates need to have ODP FBA training/certification and positive behaviour supports training.
• Experience: Two years of experience working with individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities and/or autism diagnosis are required.
• Knowledge, skills, and abilities: Excellent organisational and oral/written communication skills. Excellent interpersonal skills and effective communication with staff and the public. Ability to effectively handle multiple priorities, work independently, and as part of a team. Proficiency in, or ability to learn and use, workplace applications, platforms and technologies. Knowledge of principles and methods of habilitation, behaviour management, safety techniques and programming planning principles. Prior training in, and ability to use, evidence-based procedures and techniques e.g., modelling, prompting and fading, shaping, chaining, premack principle, conditioned reinforcement, and differential reinforcement. Ability to develop and adjust behaviour support plans addressed to meet the needs of the individuals served. Knowledge in basic concepts in family therapy and group work. Knowledge of pertinent community resources and facilities.

Essential Working Conditions and Physical Demands of Lifespan Clinician One:

• Work in program sites and the community routinely providing direct care and/or support with individuals.
• Stand, sit or run by self, or provide proper care and supervision with an individual.
• Able to move and stay with an individual to keep them safe, both in home environment and community.
• Able to assist an individual who has fallen, regardless of weight or size.
• Walk, climb stairs by self, or to provide direct care and/or support.
• Work in a standard office environment, and utilise desktop computer equipment on a daily basis.
• Able to lift or move items associated with sedentary work and light work (exert up to 20 lbs).
• Travel to offsite locations and regional office locations as necessary.

Pay: $28-$32 hourly

All employees receive the following benefits:

• Mileage reimbursement, paid travel time between worksites
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Referral bonuses
• Ongoing training
• Discounts on various services, perks with local credit unions, college tuition discounts

If working 20 hours or more, benefits also include:

• Paid time off, tuition reimbursement, 401k match.

If working 30+ hours per week, benefits also include:

• Health, vision, Rx, & dental insurances
• 401k match, Tuition Reimbursement and college tuition discounts
• 20 Days paid time off plus additional time with continued service.
• Paid holiday time.
• Catastrophic sick leave.
• Life insurance, Short & long term disability.

Access Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.