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Organization:
Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Job Summary:
Provides consultation and coaching to meet the behavioral health needs of children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of neurodevelopmental diagnoses across residential, community, educational, and health care settings
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Key Responsibilities:
*Conducts assessments to understand behavioral health needs, environmental and contextual variables to establish individualized goals and plans for improving outcomes.
*Provides coaching and consultation to teachers, caregivers, and other providers (e.g., Direct Support Professionals, Behavior Analysts, Registered Behavior Technicians, and paraeducators) in conducting assessments, developing plans, implementing interventions, assessing progress, and fading supports to achieve desirable outcomes and improve practices.
*Participates in the development and implementation of novel behavior analytic programming.
*Develops and leads professional development, including creation of educational materials, toolkits, webinars, and other resources and material.
Technical Capabilities
Behavior Analyst Treatment Implementation (Intermediate)
* Consultation and coaching that is specific to a person supported
* Analysis of data and presentation of data in a manner that is accessible to non-ABA providers
*Interdisciplinary collaboration with related service providers
* Problem identification and goal-setting-Demonstrates flexibility within service line scope to articulate a need for the person supported and measurable goals within the scope of the funding requirements.
* Develops and documents person-centered short-and long-term goals that are functional and measureable.
* Identifies the need for and referral to other services, as needed.
* Contributes to the design and implementation of a comprehensive and individualized assessment process.
* Assisting in the selection of evidence-based practices and providing necessary individualization to match the unique needs of the person supported.
* Demonstrates experience and fluency with behavior analytic skills necessary for clinical application across settings such as improving or creating plans, ensuring that interventions are accurately and consistently implemented, and maintaining data-focused methods for monitoring progress and clinical outcomes.
Provider and Caregiver Education (Intermediate)
* Demonstrates proficiency in communicating rationale, recommended actions, formal guidance, and norms of best practice related to needs or an individual person supported, groups of individuals with similar behavioral health needs, and for the general population of individuals with I/DD needing support with behavior health.
*Shows expertise in providing technical assistance and training related to topics such as:
* Coaching and supporting implementation of all components of plans related to improving behavioral health outcomes ( e.g., Behavior Support Plan, Behavior Intervention Plan, Safety/Crisis Plan)
* Monitoring and improving implementation, fidelity and individual outcomes through data collection, analysis, and ongoing evaluation
* Can provide education within a variety of formats, including professional development, coaching, and consultation grounded in ABA to individuals and teams of parents, community providers, and educators,…