Behavior Specialist II - Eating Disorder

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A Brief Overview
The Behavioral Specialist II is responsible for providing advanced direct care to children and Adolescents with severe emotional, behavioral, social and psychiatric challenges and needs. The Behavioral Specialist II provides systematic instruction to youth in order to develop their behavioral safety and compliance abilities, improve social and communication skills, identify and expression of feelings, and an increase on-task behavior. The Behavioral Specialist II has and develops knowledge and expertise in the application of applied behavioral analysis and behavior modification techniques and demonstrates these skills in conducting their responsibilities. The Behavioral Specialist II provides treatment room leadership in supporting the youth to achieve their treatment goals. The Behavioral Specialist II assists in the training and supervision of Behavioral Specialists I and Behavior Assistants I and II.

What you will do

• Under supervision and in conjunction with the clinical team, serves as the primary behavior rehabilitation specialist to assigned patients.
• In accordance with the approved master treatment plan and under the supervision of the interdisciplinary team, develops behavior modification protocols to address disturbances in behavioral, emotional and social domains of functioning.
• Under the supervision of the clinical team, identify, operationalize and track specific target behaviors that impede patient development with minimal support.
• Under the supervision of the clinical team, monitors specific interventions designed to enhance the youth’s development.
• Provides treatment room coordination for the implementation of program protocols and new program systems.
• Participation in clinical care (observing and/or co-leading psychotherapy groups.
• Supervises patients during restroom use.
• Assist in the completion of new patient orientation.
• Completes phone intake assessments working under the direction of the intake coordinators.
• Maintains the schedule of activities throughout the day.
• alMay demonstrate clinical skills to Behavior Specialist I & Behavior Assistants.
• Under supervision, participates in patient assessment and treatment planning.
• Assesses behavioral, emotional and social challenges and needs.
• Assesses social and emotional skills and social and emotional skill deficits.
• Assesses relevant family systems issues.
• Provides active training and systematic social and emotional skills instruction to groups of youth throughout the course of the treatment day.
• Serves as a resource to Behavioral Specialist I and Behavior Assistants.
• Maintains appropriate documentation and functional outcome measures for assigned patients.
• Timely and appropriate documentation in the patient medical record.
• Production of written behavior treatment protocols.
• Collect and graphically display data on patient goals and target behaviors.
• Present progress and evaluation of data for the team during behavior and clinical rounds.
• Writes discharge summary at the conclusion of the patient’s day treatment course.
• Maintains a safe therapeutic and hazard free environment.
• Provides daily transportation services to youth in the program as needed.
• Provides close supervision to youth in the treatment room and during program activities to maintain safety and clinical integrity of the group milieu.
• Demonstrates and provides a clearly delineated series of non-violent crisis interventions strategies to facilitate improved youth functioning.
• Only as a last re