BCBA Supervisor

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Job Purpose:

The BCBA must work collaboratively with the clinical team and the administrative team to oversee their assigned cases, therapists, and supervisees to ensure effective clinical services across all patients. 

The BCBA role plays a critical part in ensuring the clinical care of all assigned clients aligns with authorized hours and meets the medical necessity of each patient's needs. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Providing quality supervision to Behavior Interventionists and mid level supervisors, regularly. 
• Monitoring the supervisee’s utilization rate, clinical efficacy and client satisfaction 
• Implementing the approved treatment plans
• Writing Progress Reports and submitting to the administrative team 30 days prior to the authorization end date 
• Ensuring the timely updates to intervention, treatment plans or schedules advised by the clinical director
• Conducting policy and procedure reviews with families, ensuring they have a clear understanding of our operational practices and how we conduct business
• Delivering Parent Training in accordance with the medically necessary parent training hours authorized by the insurance company 
• Assisting in the training and onboarding of new staff 
• Providing field training to Behavior Interventionists
• Actively participating in team meetings
• Providing direct services when required
• Drafting their monthly schedule on the first working day of each month
• Rendering all sessions, obtaining the necessary signatures from families, and finalizing SOAP notes or PVRs by the conclusion of each session
• Establishing and maintaining a culture where both staff and families experience satisfaction and professionalism
• Fostering an environment that actively promotes a culture free from any form of retaliation, discouraging negative comments, and vehemently opposing any manifestations of racism. This means cultivating an atmosphere where individuals can express themselves, report concerns, and work together without fear of reprisal, where all interactions are characterized by respect, inclusivity, and a commitment to equal treatment, regardless of race or ethnicity
• Perform other job-related duties or special projects as assigned

Requirements:

Skills & Qualifications:

• Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) certification (A copy of the certification is required)
• Masters degree in ABA or related fields (A copy of the diploma is required)
• Valid TB clearance and COVID clearance 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams
• Strong knowledge of evidence-based behavior interventions and assessment methodologies
• Reliable transportation & Valid Driver’s license 

Working Conditions

• The staff is required to function around patients with behavioral needs.

Physical Requirements:

• Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects. If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for Sedentary Work and the worker sits most of the time, the job is rated for Light Work
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
• Crouching : Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Crawling: Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet. 
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward. 
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion. 
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles
• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling. 
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound. 
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.