Lifespan Clinician One (Behavior Supports & Assessments)

Are you pursuing fieldwork hours to become a clinician, while desiring to maintain full time employment? Why not consider a new pathway that allows you to do both? When you work as a Lifespan Clinician One with Access Services, you'll be working to access fieldwork hours towards clinical requirements as you deliver behavior support services across child, adolescent, and adult populations.

This dual-role position of Lifespan Clinician One involves providing clinical direction, developing treatment plans, and conducting behavioral assessments for adults, while also implementing individualized behavioral interventions for children and adolescents under Intensive Behavioral 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.

Learn more about the work of Behavior Supports & Assessments at Access Services:

 Essential Functions of Lifespan Clinician One :

Essential Functions within adult behavior support: 

• Conduct comprehensive assessments of skills deficits and behavioral needs for participants identifying antecedents, potential functions of behavior, possible environmental factors and analyzing assessment findings to design behavioral support plans, individualized treatment plans and additional assessments as needed. 

• Ensure that ongoing assessment of the function of behaviors and application of behavior support principles and interventions occur during client sessions. 

• Collaborate with participants, their family, and service teams to develop behavior support plans that include positive practice and least restrictive interventions. 

• Establish individualized treatment goals, objectives and interventions to address targeted behaviors. 

• Review, analyze, and interpret data to determine any changes in behavior 

• Adjust behavior support plan, individualized treatment plan and additional assessments as needed to address targeted behaviors. 

• Develop crisis intervention plans.

• Participate in team meetings. 

• Emphasize the importance of treatment integrity measures that allow for regular fidelity checks, feedback to caregiver teams regarding efficacy of implementation, and reliability measures among all those staff/caregivers involved.

• Conduct comprehensive functional behavioral 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 behavior support plan including providing direct behavioral support, education and coaching to help ensure interventions are implemented with clinical integrity. 

• Complete required documentation related to data collection, progress reporting and development of annual planning materials. 

Essential Functions within Intensive Behavioral Health Services:

• Provide support as outlined in each individualized treatment plan in home, school and community settings utilizing approved interventions. 

• Document case notes as required in the electronic health record.

• Focus service delivery on defined target and replacement behaviors 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 Behavior Support leadership. 

Other: 

• Maintain regular and predictable attendance and be available to meet program needs. 

• Ability to travel during work shift to successfully carry out the expectations of this position including attending offsite meetings, providing services in the community, and providing service oversight and supervision.  Therefore, employees drive their personal vehicle and/or an agency owned vehicle to meet these expectations. Employees are expected to meet eligibility criteria outlined in our Motor Vehicle Policy, and successfully pass the agency’s substance abuse screening at any time during employment.  

Requirements

Requirements and Qualifications for Lifespan Clinician One:

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Psychology, Special Education, Counseling, Social Work, Education, Applied Behavior Analysis or Gerontology is required. 

Certification and/or Licensing:

• Completion of 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 Behavior Analyst (BCBA) or BCaBA is required. 

• Active certification as a Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) through the Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) is preferred.

• Candidates need to have ODP FBA training/certification and Positive Behavior 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 organizational 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.

• Understanding of the elements of a variety of approaches and techniques including:

• Everyday Lives, Charting the Life Course, Applied Behavior Analysis methods, Person-Centered Planning; principles of Trauma-Informed Approaches and Positive Behavioral Support. 

• Knowledge of principles and methods of habilitation, behavior management, safety techniques and programming planning principles. 

• Prior training in, and ability to use, evidence-based procedures and techniques e.g., modeling, prompting and fading, shaping, chaining, Premack principle, conditioned reinforcement, and differential reinforcement.

• Ability to develop and adjust behavior support plans addressed to meet the needs of the individuals served.

• Knowledge of basic concepts in family therapy and group work.

• Knowledge of pertinent community resources and facilities.

Essential Working Conditions/Physical Demands of Lifespan Clinician One:

• Work in program sites and the community routinely providing direct care and/or support with individual(s).

• Stand, sit or run by self, or to 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, both at near and far distances, even when an individual may struggle to meet identified expectations.

• 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 utilize 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.

Benefits

Pay: $28-$32/hourly

All employees receive the following benefits: 

• Paid Time Off, 401K with company match 

• Tuition Reimbursement 

• 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 30+ hours per week, benefits also include:

• Health, Vision, Rx, & Dental insurances

• Tuition Reimbursement and college tuition discounts 

• 20 Days Paid Time Off plus additional time with continued service. Paid Holiday Time. Catastrophic Sick Leave (CSL) 

• Company Paid Life Insurance, Short & Long Term Disability

Access Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer.