Licensed Behavior Specialist Consultant (Bsc)

Two-day-a-week, school-based Behavior Specialist Consultant (BSC) position

Morrisville, PA

Are you a BSC with your Behavior Specialist License?  Are you tired of home-based services?  Tired of driving from location to location? Tired of insurance billing, authorizations, and reauthorizations? Tired of pushing papers to justify service or visiting schools where you’re viewed as an outsider?

This would be a part time opportunity

If so, consider AES. Aveanna Education Services is looking to hire a BSCs to support the behavioral service needs of autistic support classrooms in the Morrisville School District.  As you know, it makes a difference when you work with teachers who want you in their classrooms.  We work directly with the district and provide support where they request it.

So, come to work where your clinical skills will be valued and welcomed.  Spend your days in schools where you will support AS classrooms and teachers in developing class-wide systems, as well as student-specific teaching and behavior plans.

If you’re interested in learning more about this phenomenal opportunity with Aveanna Education Services, please connect to aveanna.com

Essential Job Functions

Clinical

• Work collaboratively with teachers, paraprofessionals, and other school professionals to support class-wide, and student-specific initiatives.

• Class-wide initiatives center on helping teachers develop schedules and approaches to meet the social, emotional, and academic needs of students.

• Student-specific initiatives can include group and individual developing teaching plans and data systems to address students’ IEP goals while working closely with staff to support the implementation of those plans.

• Complete frequent direct observations and in-vivo modeling of behavior intervention and teaching plan components.

• Summarize data on class-wide, and student-specific initiatives. Present summaries on initiatives to stakeholders as needed/requested. Present summaries on student-specific goals and initiatives to coincide with district marking periods, and/or timelines established in students’ IEPs.

• Meet with clinical supervisor (a BCBA-D) on at least a monthly basis to review cases and initiatives. Complete and submit to ones’ supervisor AES’s “Check-in Form” prior to these meetings.

Administrative

• Complete a daily record of how time was spent in different classrooms. Entries to specify (a) the date of service, (b) the start time, (c) the end time, (d) the name of the classroom being supported, and (e) a brief, usually a one-to-two sentence, description of what occurred.

• Submit timesheets, which are a summary of the daily records, every Monday by noon.

• Ensure that all consultative endeavors comply with regulatory, professional, ethical and organizational policies and procedures.

• Maintain current paper or electronic files as indicated by the clinical team.

Requirements

• Current, non-restricted, Licensure as a Behavior Specialists in Pennsylvania (PA- LBS).
• At least two (2) years verified LBS experience providing behavioral services to children with special needs.
• Experience teaching and supporting functional communication and social skills.
• Compliance with additional state and district-specific requirements as needed.

Other Skills/Abilities

• Be on time and prepared for every assignment every day.
• Treat everyone with dignity and respect.
• Believe that everyone is capable of growth and development and if people are not living up to their potential, it is because they have not been given the proper support YET.
• Adhere to confidentiality standards and professional boundaries.
• Remain calm and professional in stressful situations.
• Willingness to seek and accept advice, guidance, support, and feedback.
• Ability and comfort using Microsoft Office products (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Teams, Zoom, and other software products.
• Strong executive functioning skills (i.e., organization, planning, time-management, self-management, problem-solving, follow through).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to speak, read, write, and understand English (fluently).
• Must be able to travel to, from, and between schools (company does not provide vehicles or transportation).
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of 25 pounds
• Prolonged walking, standing, bending, kneeling, reaching, twisting.
• Must be able to sit and climb stairs.
• Must have visual and hearing acuity.
• Must have strong sense of smell and touch.
• Occasional rapid movement and physical agility in response to the spontaneity of children and those patients with neurological impairment.

Environment

• Must be able to function in a wide variety of environments which may involve exposure to allergens and other. various conditions
• Possible exposure to blood, bodily fluids and infectious diseases.

Other Duties

• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

• As an employer accepting Medicare and Medicaid funds, employees must comply with all health-related requirements in all relevant jurisdictions, including required vaccinations and testing, subject to exemptions for medical or religious reasons as appropriate.