BCBA (Remote - Telehealth)

Job Description
Job Description Description: Telehealth Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Job Summary:
The Telehealth Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) provides high quality ABA treatment, support and training to maximize progress for every client via telehealth. The job includes leadership and coordination of care between Registered Behavior Technicians and Behavior Technicians assigned to the team. The telehealth BCBA will work directly and indirectly, using ABA best practices for our clients, families and staff though development and supervision of individual treatment plans, behavior interventions, training of direct care staff and include areas of expertise to be shared with others (i.e., student supervision, research, training, specialized programming, behavioral challenges, etc.) The Telehealth BCBA provides services remotely as necessary to ensure clients and staff are supported across multiple center locations. A Telehealth BCBA must manage time effectively to ensure they are meeting the budgeted requirements of the position.

Base salary of $90,000 per year with monthly bonus opportunities
Essential Job Functions
1. Essential Functions (Weighted Score: 50)
A. Timely submissions with all required clinical documentation per timelines determined by individual payors. (Weighted Score: 12.5)
B. Development and ongoing monitoring of Individual Treatment Plans (Weighted Score: 12.5)
C. Ensuring compliance with all client’s insurance-related requirements, complete, on-time, proper storage and labeling of clinical notes for each client interaction. (Weighted Score: 12.5) D. Facilitate regular family/caregiver meetings and trainings to ensure open communication, data review, progress updates, generalization and transition planning, and recommendations for future programming and treatment. (Weighted Score: 12.5)
E. Prepare analysis and summary of data, responses to caregiver questions, add updated information such as new insurance, change of care or medication or behavior change.
F. Review schedule and adjust for any time out of therapy for make-up days or increase or decrease of necessary treatment hours (Weighted Score: 12.5)
G. Submission of all required documents for internal and external audits. Maintaining HIPAA and best practices as determined via qualitative and compliance reviews. (Weighted Score: 12.5) H. Keep licensure, certification and credentialing current (Weighted Score: 12.5)
2. Operations (Weighted Score: 50)
A. Initial and ongoing assessment and evaluation of skills and needs for each client (Weighted Score: 25)
B. Regular staff training and supervision, using reliability checks and contextual feedback for staff enhancement and client progress. (Weighted Score: 25)
C. Identifying clients and families in need of additional supports, such as families of clients with high risk behavior, social skills groups, family support groups, and providing/referring families for all indicated supports. (Weighted Score: 25)
D. Ensure productivity and efficiency by maintaining billable expectation (Weighted Score: 25)
3. Individual Rights

• A. Maintain the confidentiality of all individual information.
• B. Ensure that you treat all individuals fairly, and with kindness, dignity, and respect as stated in Circle City ABA policies.
• C. Report all allegations of physical, verbal, mental, or sexual abuse to include involuntary seclusion, neglect or misappropriation of the individual’s belongings or money.
• D. Honor refusal of treatment request. Report such requests to the individual’s team.

Requirements: Minimum Job Qualifications
A. Education and Experience
A master’s degree in ABA, Special Education, Education, Psychology or related field
Minimum of two years of experience as a Board Certified Behavior Analyst
Preferred: BCBA Supervision and Experience and Standards module completion
Must possess and maintain a Board Certified Behavior Analysis certification credential by the Behavior Analysis Certification Board
Management and leadership experience and ability to interact with families, staff, clients and community partners for coordination of care

• Assessment of skills & deficits across a variety of domains: Social (Pragmatic) Communication, Social-Emotional Reciprocity, Nonverbal Communication, Stereotypy and Repetitive Behavior, Restricted Behavior, Sensory Responses, Functional Living Skills. Use of best practice methodologies of ABA such as VBMAPP, Vineland, PEAK, AFLLS, Essentials for Living, and others required to appropriately assess individual clients.
• Develop of individual treatment and behavior intervention plans with continuous analysis to determine levels progress and remaining deficits

B. Training Requirements During Employment: Must complete all assigned training
C. Specific Requirements:
Must be at least 18 years of age per state requirements.
Must have CPR and First Aid certifications
Must have a valid driver’s license and automobile insurance.
Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.
Must possess the ability to deal tactfully with clients, family members, visitors, government agencies/personnel, and the general public.
Must be willing to accept supervision and willingness to work harmoniously with other personnel.
Must not pose a direct threat to the health and safety of other individuals in the workplace.
Must not have been convicted of a sex crime, exploitation of an endangered adult, failure to report battery, neglect or exploitation of an endangered adult or abuse, neglect of a child, theft, murder, voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, felony battery, or a felony offense relating to a controlled substance.
Must be able to work with ill, disabled, emotionally upset, and, at times, hostile individuals.
Must be able to demonstrate the ability to communicate adequately to complete required forms and reports of visits and follow oral or written instructions.
Must demonstrate the ability to provide services according to the individual support plan.
Must possess an interest in and empathy for individuals.
Must have a good knowledge of office support functions.
Must be able to interpret, apply and explain complex information such as regulations, policies or services; independently solving problems/performing liaison activities to deal with individuals or resolve conflicts in a work setting.
Must have successfully completed all state and federal required training
D. Physical & Sensory Requirements
Must be able to move intermittently throughout the workday.
Must be able to read, speak and write the English language in an understandable manner.
Must be able to cope with the mental and emotional stress of the position.
Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of this position can be fully met.
Must function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity, and the ability to work effectively with clients, personnel, and support agencies.
Must meet the general health requirements set forth by the policies of this agency.
Must be able to push, pull, move, and/or lift a minimum of fifty pounds to a height of three feet and be able to push, pull, move, and/or carry such weight a minimum distance of ten feet.