BCBA Administrator

Full Job Description

Are you searching for a meaningful work experience? Would you like to make a difference in the lives of others? Join our interdisciplinary team at the Utah State Developmental Center (USDC).

We are hiring a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) to provide administrative leadership on the night and weekends shifts while overseeing the behavioral needs of the intellectually and developmentally disabled individuals who reside here.We guarantee 40 hours per week and promote a great work life balance by offering excellent benefits, including vacation and sick leave as well as twelve paid holidays per year.

Principal DutiesThe Board Certified Behavior Analyst in this position will:

• Provide Administrative leadership during the overnight and weekend shifts.
• Be the Liaison for critical incidents during the overnight and weekend shifts.
• Provide updates to USDC leaders on issues that occur during overnight and weekend
  shifts.
• Ensure compliance with applicable federal and/or state laws, regulation, and agency
  rules.
• Provide weekly and monthly reports required by the facility.
• Lead the team in crisis intervention and de-escalation with adults with intellectual and
  developmental disabilities.
• Think quickly in the moment and apply sound clinical judgement in a crisis situation.
• Oversee the implementation of behavior support plans.
• Create and maintain data systems, including regularly collecting data to track client
  progress.
• Provide support for the behaviorist team as needed.
• Provide or oversee supervision for behavioral staff as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Certified as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst
• 2+ years of experience with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities
• Documented expertise in crisis intervention
• Physical ability to participate in applying physical and/or mechanical restraints with other team members as needed for adults with developmental disabilities

Our Amazing Team
Practicing as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at the Utah State Developmental Center allows you to work with an amazingly qualified and collaborative treatment team in a safe and respectful environment. We are mission-driven; promoting and offering improved quality of life for individuals with intellectual and physical disabilities.

As a State of Utah employee, you will enjoy a generous benefits package, including medical, dental, and life insurance, various wellness programs, retirement plan, and paid leave accrual to promote positive work/life balance. You can find more information about benefits, https://dhrm.utah.gov/why-utah/benefits/




The Agency
Our beautiful campus is situated at the base of the Wasatch Mountains, conveniently close to all the best recreation Utah Valley has to offer. For more information about the Utah State Developmental Center, our philosophy, mission, and treatment programs, we invite you to browse https://usdc.utah.gov/

Requirements

• Develop, train, monitor, and update behavior support plans, with a focus on developing positive behaviors, preventing problem behaviors, teaching replacement behaviors, and reducing maladaptive behaviors.
  

• Act as a resource for management and staff; provide technical support within the area of responsibility.

• Observe resident and/or client behavior in structured and unstructured settings to determine behavior patterns and functions of behavior.

Required to certify in the Mandt System including physical performance of the various Mandt Physical interventions and techniques.

This includes the ability to train staff and to engage an aggressive individual using appropriate interventions to protect themselves & others with de-escalation as the focus.

• Analyze and summarize data; report findings, interpret results and/or make recommendations.

• Provide Administrative Leadership on nights and weekends shifts.

• Collaborate effectively with members of the behaviorist team and other USDC teams.

• Ensuring that all “Critical Incidents” are reported and addressed.

• Overseeing timely crisis response and notifying the Administrator on Call (AOC) of any emergency concerns e.g. employment issues, campus threats, employee impairment, placing employees on admin leave, and concerns with the safety of individuals.

• Attending and providing overnight status updates in leadership meetings.

Qualifications

Typical Qualifications
(includes knowledge, skills, and abilities required upon entry into position and trainable after entry into position)

• Experience in crisis intervention and de-escalation with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

• Knowledge of USDC and other appropriate behavior intervention rules and regulations.

• Ability to think quickly in the moment and apply sound clinical judgement in a crisis situation.

• Strong foundation in applied behavioral analysis.

• Strong skills in data systems; including data collection, analysis, presentation, and using data to inform treatment.

• Flexible and adaptable team member.

• Collaborate across the interdisciplinary team.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

• Working knowledge of Google and Microsoft applications.

• Experience in developing and implementing effective behavior support plans.

• Experience in conducting thorough and efficient functional behavior assessment.
  
  

Additional Information

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with a current State of Utah licensure.
• Work requires physical exertion. May require to ability to stand; walk over rough surfaces; bend, crouch, stoop, stretch, reach, lift moderately heavy items (up to 50 lbs) in a recurring manner and/or for long periods of time.
• Risks found in potentially dangerous or unusual environmental stress situations. Institutional surroundings and hazards, including being subject to possible physical aggression, as well as physical and/or verbal abuse and/or exposure to ill patients, cleaning compounds and supplies.
• You must successfully pass a criminal history check.
• You must be determined eligible for direct patient access to provide services to a vulnerable adult in accordance with U.C.A 26-21 and R432-35. To see what would exclude you from receiving direct patient access please click on the following link and read section R432-35-8.
• https://adminrules.utah.gov/public/rule/R432-35/Current%20Rules?
• Department of Human Resource Management rules regarding promotions and transfers apply to current employees.

• Tobacco use is only allowed in designated areas on the campus grounds.

SCHEDULE

• 40 hours a week, to include working midnights and weekends, specific shifts to be determined.