Behavioral Interventional Specialist (31481)

Criteria for BIS:

• Level 1 BIS is a person with at least a master’s degree from a program in a clinical and/or treatment field of psychology, has had documented training in assessment techniques and behavior support plan development, and has at least five years of experience. Experience includes working directly with persons with developmental disabilities, including the development, implementation, and monitoring of behavior support plans and/or providing supervision and training to others in the implementation of behavior support plans.
• Level 2 BIS is a person who has national board certification in behavior analysis (BCBA) and a master’s degree in behavior analysis or a field closely related to clinical or community psychology which is approved by OPWDD.
  • Alternatively, the person may have a master’s degree in a clinical or treatment field in psychology, social work, school psychology, or a related human services field or a New York State license in Mental Health Counseling and
    • Has OPWDD approved specialized training or experience in assessment techniques and behavioral support plan development; and
    • Has provided behavioral services for an agency in the OPWDD system; or
    • Completes at least one graduate-level course in an applied health service area of applied psychology, social work, or special education each year.

Schedule

• BIS’s travel to various programs they are assigned to.
• BIS schedule is flexible and depends on the needs of their programs. BIS may work some early hours and some late hours to do observations.
• They split their time depending on the hours allotted to a specific program, however if there is a crisis in one of their programs, they may focus on that program for a short time.
• They may attend IRC/HRC and/or other committee meetings.
• BIS’s will change their schedules and go to a program if they are being visited from DQI. The Residential Manager or Coordinator must reach out to the BIS/RN to inform them that their house is being surveyed.
• It is the responsibility of the BIS to inform their program (Res Manager or Coord) if they will not be attending a meeting for the program.
• BIS’s are responsible for calling out to the Psychology Coordinator and notifying their programs. They request time off first by informing the Psychology Coordinator, if approved, they put their request in Paycom. Time is tracked by the Psychology Coordinator and their time is approved is by Juno Greaves.

Attending Meetings/Trainings & Communication with Team

• The BIS is responsible for working directly with the residential or day hab staff and is responsible for the following:

Training staff

Ensure that all clinical interventions are understood by staff and are

properly and consistently implemented

Communicating clinical rationales to the staff

Providing staff with both formal and informal feedback

Role model appropriate tone

Implementing behavioral programming.

• The BIS’s is responsible for meeting with residential staff on a regular basis to provide clinical supervision (typically done during staff meetings).
• The BIS is responsible for providing clinical oversight and training to the Asst Clinicians in their programs.
• The BIS is responsible to function as a resource to other programs w