Careers with Advance Kids

Job Summary:

The Behavior Consultant utilizes discretion and independent judgment in carrying out job duties and goals of the organization.

The Behavior Consultant develops, delivers, and monitors individualized applied behavior analytic programs for individuals with developmental disabilities. The goal of our program is to improve the quality of life for each individual and their family members. Behavior Consultants are responsible for the performance of registered behavior technicians (RBTs) and the facilitation of skill generalization by training parents and other caretakers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supervises RBTs by carrying out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include assessing the needs of RBTs; providing ongoing feedback; providing necessary support required in order to provide quality individualized behavior programs; troubleshoots weaknesses and provides one on one teaching to increase their knowledge and abilities; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.
• Oversees client hours provided and achieves required client hours.
• Provides clients with on-site supervision.
• Assesses the needs of clients and develops individualized behavior programs accordingly.
• Oversee therapy teams to ensure client success, reviews data, provides recommendations and monitors progress.
• Develops, implements and monitors behavior intervention plans and provides ongoing behavior consultation to address behavior excesses and promotes independence.
• Provides effective communication and collaboration with parents and staff members which are critical components of the position to ensure consistent and effective implementation of behavior services.
• Serve as member of the IEP’s and PTM’s to provide objectives, behavior intervention plans, and recommendations for comprehensive goals for their clients to be implemented in the home.
• Continuously oversees the child’s progress and troubleshoot to create the most effective treatment plan for the team.
• Monitors and modifies treatment plans.
• Conduct workshops for families, schools, parents and teachers in ABA.
• Interfaces with adjunct service providers and interfaces with representatives from schools, insurance companies, and other agencies.
• Writes and approves reports including: assessment, update, exit and termination reports according to timelines and formats provided.
• Attends and observes client’s in-home program. The behavior consultant will monitor curriculum, review the learning tree, monitor data collection, and observe program implementation.
• Conducts competencies, evaluations, and level reviews as need for all subordinates.
• Discuss concerns and observations of care providers (i.e., parents).
• Attends and participates in conferences and meetings.
• Attends monthly consult meetings with supervisors to review caseload, duties and needs.
• Conducts monthly behavior consultant meetings.
• Conducts monthly consultant/lead paraprofessional meetings.
• Maintains central reach calendar.
• Maintains accurate billing records.
• Updates HR with valid personal records.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Other Competencies or Skills:

LEADERSHIP

Integrity

Ability to be honest and has internal guiding principals that are not compromised. Treats others with respect. Represents AK philosophy. Represents self and company in a professional manner. Understands, adheres to, and implements all company policies and procedures. Ability to attend and be punctual to meetings. Ability to maintain client, employee and company confidentiality.

Communication

Excellent communication skills including public speaking and writing skills and demonstrated ability to structure large amounts of information in a written document that is clear and easy to understand. Effective interpersonal communications with subordinates and peers. Ability to communicate information down to subordinates. Respond to emails and phone calls in a timely manner (within 48 hours when not on LOA or sooner if urgent). Direct all concerns/problems regarding staff to your supervisor. Communication that involves informing or seeking of approval should also be submitted to your supervisor.

Relationships

Ability to build positive business relationships with subordinates and peers through good interpersonal and group communication skills. Ability to build a strong team through the trust and respect of others. Maintain a positive attitude.

Persuasion/Influence

Ability to persuade or influence others to follow your lead.

Adaptability

Ability to be adaptable and flexible, embrace change and see it as an opportunity. Welcomes and applies feedback to improve performance.

Accountability

Every team member is 100% accountable to the team. Accept responsibility for your respective contributions to the failures and errors of the team. Refrain from assuming that he/she knows the intention of another member. Concentrate efforts on solutions and refrain from complaining, finger pointing, passing on of accountability. Ability to follow directions and to set and achieve goals. Applies feedback to improve performance. Notifies department director when there is a lack of progress or significant gains.

Teamwork

Ability to know how to build and nurture a team. Know when to be a leader and when to be a follower. Ability to handle team conflict. Ability to work collaboratively with others. Respect the opinions and positions of fellow team members. Allow others to speak freely and respectfully before commenting or responding.

Coaching and Development

Ability to encourage others to expand their capabilities and take on additional assignments. Ability to train others effectively. Volunteers readily, asks for help, and offers help when needed. Pursues own training and development opportunities.

Decision-making

Ability to wade through information, comprehend what’s relevant, make a well-considered decision, and take action based on that decision.

Cognitive Attributes

Intelligence, Basic Problem Solving Skills, Critical Thinking Skills, Creative Thinking Skills, Ability to Learn, Absorptive Capacity.

Social Attributes

Communication Skills, Social Awareness Skills, Social Judgment Skills, Persuasion and Negotiation Skills, Collaboration Skills, Team Building Skills, Relationship Building Skills, Behavioral Complexity - The ability to exhibit contrary or opposing behaviors (as appropriate or necessary) while still retaining some measure of integrity, credibility and direction. Multicultural Awareness and Sensitivity.

Supervision:

Prior supervisory experience is not required, but preferred. Behavior Consultants are required to provide supervision and direction to two or more RBT's.

Education and/or Experience:

Non-BCBA Position: Must be enrolled in ABA Masters program. 

A minimum of two years experience in related field and case experience with children with ASD and other development disabilities. Must have supervisor recommendation prior to applying for position.

Physical Demands:

Ability to run, stand, sit, stoop, crawl, kneel, reach, push, and lift a child weighing 50 pounds; normal visual, vocal & hearing acuity; use of a computer; ability to travel via automobile.

Background Checks and/or Licensing:

Must be at least 18 years old; criminal background check; reference checks; provide a negative TB test; provide immunization records; education verification; current drivers license and proof of valid auto insurance.

Other Requirements:

Must have reliable means of transportation; availability to work a minimum of 40 hours per week; and have access to a computer with knowledge of internet, e-mail and Microsoft Office applications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Work one-on-one with child, implementing individual lessons and behavior intervention plans as specified by the behavior consultant.
• Monitor progress by accurately recording each session and providing notes as indicated by behavior consultant on designated data sheets.
• Know and understand the specific goals and behavior plans of each client.
• Implementation of each individual lesson (specific SD or instruction, the exact target response that the child must display, the specific prompt level anticipated before giving the SD, and the appropriate amount/type of the consequence for the target response).
• Communication with behavior consultant for questions on lesson implementation or progression, training needs, problems with child's progression, behavior excesses, etc.
• Some clients require in-home services on a regular basis; other clients receiving center based services require monthly in-home visits in addition to their time at the center. Center based paraprofessionals are expected to provide therapy in the childs home as directed by their supervisor.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• 18 years or older.
• A minimum of 1 year experience working with children, preferably in related field, within the past 5 years.
• Education equivalent to a High School Diploma or higher. Enrollment or completion of bachelor degree in a related field (Behavior Analysis, Education, Psychology, Human Services, Speech Pathology) and knowledge in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) preferred.
• Ability to run independently and repeatedly, stand, sit, stoop, crawl, kneel, reach, push and lift a child weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Reliable means of transportation.
• Availability to work a minimum of 15 hours per week.
• Have access to a computer or smart phone that allows you to read and respond to e-mail as well as complete online billing and timekeeping daily.
• Pass criminal background check.
• Provide documentation of current immunization including a negative TB test from the last 3 years.

Advance Kids is growing, hiring like crazy, and serious about bringing you along. If you want to make a big change and you qualify, we will help with moving expenses and even lease deposits to have you work for us in the Sacramento area, because we are desperate to get quality people working for our clients! Our residential homes are in Rio Lindo and Orangevale. Full or part time, $20-25 per hour starting pay with great benefits, flexible work arrangements, and paid training/certification. If you have a high school diploma and 6 months' experience working with challenging behaviors, get us your resume now, and a hiring manager will call within a day.  

Your team teaches our clients with autism and other diagnoses to succeed in independent living, to take on a whole new life. The home is large, open, and beautifully furnished, with an excellent manager and team. Check out this video from Kala House Jr., which is a very similar work environment.

This is your way into the greatest company of our kind in California. Not just because world-class leadership and cutting-edge techniques got us there, but also because we have so many ways we serve our clients and their families. A ranch day program. Residences. Parent led and clinical therapies. Schools. A unique, excellent culture like ours must teach, inspire, and grow from within- that’s why all but one of our directors started at the bottom with us. Learn from our LMFT, BCBAs, CSW, nurse, dietitian, music therapist, recreational therapist, and personal trainers. Competitors try to steal our people for a reason.  

Move up, or change departments, or support yourself well as you get through school. Gather awesome experience for a career elsewhere, or land a great job and team in this work we love. 

Minimum of 6 months of experience working with challenging behaviors.

Partners participate in a comprehensive hiring process of interviews and mandatory educational, health, and security clearances. Once employed Partners are required to attend mandatory training and pass competency written and in-situ exams and evaluations within the first two weeks of date of hire before being assigned to a group of consumers. In the first year of employment, Partners are required to pass field competency tests every three months.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide supervision, instruction and guidance of consumers per directives provided by the Clinical Behavior Consultant.
• Support work tasks as designed.
• Ensure participation in work routines (e.g., breaks, meal breaks, leisure time, etc.)
• Ensure participation in leisure activities (e.g., reading, games, etc.)
• Provide support during adaptive skill routines (e.g., preparing a meal, hygiene, etc.)
• Record the performance of individual consumers.
• Implement behavior intervention plans and record all data relevant to such behavior excesses.
• Provide ongoing input, data, and communication with clinical behavior consultant on consumer progress, training needs, problems with consumer's progression, behavior excesses, etc.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Other Competencies or Skills:

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of Applied Behavior Analysis, command of terminology in order to effectively communicate with supervisors and administration, understanding and working knowledge of the basic behavioral principles, verbal behavior, and incidental training; knowledge of prompt hierarchy, ability to appropriately address behavior excesses (i.e., tantrum, aggression, etc.)
• Punctual to sessions and meetings, consistently at work and on time, presents self professionally, dresses appropriately;
• Works well independently and as a team player; maintains effective and proper working relationships among coworkers, clients, and supervisors; welcomes feedback, accepts responsibility for own actions, follows directions, follows proper chain of command;
• Ability to manage difficult or emotional client situations, keeps emotions under control, maintains client and company confidentiality;
• Effective oral and written communication, participates in meetings;
• Sets and achieves goals, adheres to a schedule, pursues training and development opportunities, attends ongoing mandated professional development, volunteers readily, asks for help and offers help when needed, applies feedback to improve performance, monitors own work to ensure quality and accuracy, meets productivity standards, ability to multi-task, organizes work, completes work in timely manner, checks and responds to email daily, completes billing on time and accurately;
• Displays original thinking and creativity, meets challenges with resourcefulness, works well with teens and adults, displays high energy level;
• Observes safety and security procedures, reports unsafe conditions, uses equipment and materials properly;
• Adheres to all company policies and procedures

Education/Experience/Training

• Education equivalent to High School Diploma.
• Minimum of six months experience working with individuals with special needs in a home, care setting, classroom, recreational program, therapeutic or tutorial setting, or ABA program.
• Partners receive formalized continuing education training throughout their employment, and are provided with continued hands on training and feedback on their performance on a daily basis. If a Partner exhibits deficits in any particular area of program implementation, re-training is provided within 30 days. Partners must receive 80% passing rate on all areas of the field competency and evaluation forms.

Physical Demands

Ability to run, stand, sit, stoop, crawl, kneel, reach, push, and lift 75 pounds; normal visual, vocal & hearing acuity; use of a computer; ability to travel via automobile.

Background Checks and/or Licensing

Must be at least 18 years old; criminal background check; reference checks; provide a negative TB test; education verification; current drivers license and proof of auto insurance.

Other Requirements

Must have reliable means of transportation and willingness to travel via personal automobile; availability to work a minimum of 30 hours per week; and have access to a computer with knowledge of internet, e-mail and Microsoft Office applications.

Advance Kids is growing, hiring like crazy, and serious about bringing you along. If you want to make a big change and you qualify, we will help with moving expenses and even lease deposits to have you work for us in the Sacramento area, because we are desperate to get quality people working for our clients! Our residential homes are in Rio Lindo and Orangevale. Full or part time, $20-25 per hour starting pay with great benefits, flexible work arrangements, and paid training/certification. If you have a high school diploma and 6 months' experience working with challenging behaviors, get us your resume now, and a hiring manager will call within a day.  

Your team teaches our clients with autism and other diagnoses to succeed in independent living, to take on a whole new life. The home is large, open, and beautifully furnished, with an excellent manager and team. Check out the video below to see what your team and the work are all about. 

This is your way into the greatest company of our kind in California. Not just because world-class leadership and cutting-edge techniques got us there, but also because we have so many ways we serve our clients and their families. A ranch day program. Residences. Parent led and clinical therapies. Schools. A unique, excellent culture like ours must teach, inspire, and grow from within- that’s why all but one of our directors started at the bottom with us. Learn from our LMFT, BCBAs, CSW, nurse, dietitian, music therapist, recreational therapist, and personal trainers. Competitors try to steal our people for a reason.  

Move up, or change departments, or support yourself well as you get through school. Gather awesome experience for a career elsewhere, or land a great job and team in this work we love. 

Minimum of 6 months of experience working with challenging behaviors.