Job Description

Job Description

First Children Services is currently seeking a BCBA Clinical Coordinator to join our growing Team!

Who we are:

We are a family operated and family-focused organization with a mission to provide life-changing care to the exceptional children we support. Our model is family-focused, collaborative, and comprehensive. We are looking for individuals who are innovative, energetic, team-oriented and passionate about working with individuals with autism and their families. This position will work out of our Roselle Park location.

Position Summary :

The BCBA Clinical Coordinator is responsible maintaining a caseload and overseeing training initiatives of NJ in collaboration with the Director of Quality and Outcomes and Training and Training Associates

Reports To : Director of Quality and Outcomes

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Maintains required billable caseload.
• Conducts initial and ongoing functional behavior assessments; develops/updates behavior intervention plans based on assessment results; and creates behavior datasheets that match behavior intervention plans in target name, operational definition, and measurement.
• Conducts baseline data and/or assessments to draft treatment plan goals.
• Completes assessments and required documents for initial insurance authorizations and concurrent authorizations within the allotted assessment time.
• Monitors data collection weekly to ensure data-driven decisions and program modifications are made on an ongoing basis; reviews session notes from direct support professionals on an ongoing basis; completes progress reports for his/her caseload prior to their naturally occurring due dates.
• Consults with interdisciplinary team members as needed (e.g., mental health clinicians, psychologists, OT/PT/SLP, etc.)
• Ensures relevant team members, including direct support professionals, teachers, related service therapists, and parents/guardians, are trained on student-specific academic and clinical programming and data collection.
• Ensures programming for his/her caseload is created in EHR system.
• Creates and maintains program materials.
• Training to ensure employees are trained to competency on their job expectations and responsibilities.
• Develops and oversees ongoing trainings to ensure all employees remain knowledgeable of best practices and meet annual training requirements per relevant licensing/credentialing agencies.
• Collaborates with Compliance Officer to ensure state specific training and supervision regulations are met.
• Collaborates with Regional Directors to identify retraining needs and compliance gaps following system audits and assists with remediation plans.
• Collaborates with other departments to identify training needs and ensures completion of them.
• Develops and oversees a department-wide training calendar to ensure a variety of training topics are offered ongoing in a cohort model, including annual in-service training.
• Ensures ongoing documentation of trainings completed by all employees and maintains relevant training trackers.
• Assists the Director of Quality & Outcomes with training needs following staff injuries, including debriefing and training remediation as needed.
• Provides clinical and operational supervision, training, coaching, feedback, and evaluation to assigned trainers within region.
• Meets with direct reports on a regular, reoccurring schedule.
• Ensures direct reports maintain outlined billable hour requirements.
• Ensures direct reports conduct assigned trainings as scheduled.
• Observes trainings conducted by direct reports on a regular basis and provides prompt and supportive feedback/retraining as needed following observations.

Education, Experience, and Requirements:

• Master’s degree in special education, Psychology, Applied Behavior Analysis, Mental Health Counseling, or related field
• 3 years post-certification experience developing and implementing ABA programs for children and adolescents in home, school, and community settings.
• Previous training experience preferred.
• Board Certified Behavior Analyst certification
• Appropriately licensed in the state of practice
• Clearances (current within 90 days)
  1. PA or NJ Child Abuse Clearance (Act 151)
  2. PA or NJ Criminal Clearance (Act 34)
  3. PA or NJ Federal Criminal History Record (Act 114)
  4. PA or NJ Sexual Misconduct/Abuse Disclosure Release (Act 168) – to be completed for each employer where the candidate worked with children.
• Completed Mandated Reporter Training (Act 31)
• Completed Arrest and Conviction Report (Act 82)
• Completed Tuberculosis (TB) screening
• Possession of a valid Driver’s License and have reliable transportation.
• Must be at least 21 years old.

What we have to offer you:

• Benefits including Health Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• PTO plan
• 401K
• Much more!