RBT/ABA Supervisor

Company Description

Join our team, where your work will make a difference!

At Easterseals Bay Area, our employees are our greatest asset. By joining Easterseals Bay Area as an employee, you will have the opportunity to help individuals ages 0-22 with disabilities and special needs address life’s challenges, achieve personal goals, and gain greater independence for everyday living. The people who make up the Easterseals Bay Area team are creating solutions and changing lives for individuals with disabilities and special needs, families, and communities throughout all nine Bay Area counties and 15 northern California counties.

Minimum Education Required for Position

Bachelor's Degree

Minimum Certification Required for Position

BCaBA Required

Job Description + Responsibilities

Essential Job Functions:

The RBT/ABA Supervisor provides clinical Applied Behavior Analysis supervision and training to Registered Behavior Technicians (RBTs) and clinical staff with a focus on Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) certification supervision as aligned with ESBA’s RBT certification program. Additionally, the RBT/ABA Supervisor documents training activity and monitors training effectiveness. The RBT/ABA Supervisor also ensures the correct implementation and facilitation of organization-wide certification training needed to support professional development across all clinical departments. This position will require extensive travel across ESBA’s 7 regions.

Responsibilities:

Illustrates ESBA’s belief in the provision of high quality services through both the articulation and the demonstration of operational aspects of training.

Develops positive working relationships with all employees, and departments maintaining collaborative professional relationships at ESBA.

Provides coaching, modeling, and demonstration of specific ABA strategies and/or activities as needed with clinical staff members.

Models skills throughout ongoing training, regularly articulating the connection between the demonstration and specific content from ESBA’s RBT Training Program and ESBA’s Clinical Services Guide.

Tracks the training performance of staff members providing regular updates, metrics, results and escalated items to Managers

Follows up with hiring managers on trainee status within the first 30, 60 and 90 days of hire. Provides on-site and Client home observations of Behavioral Interventionists.

Provides specific feedback to trainees throughout the training process on their performance documenting status and providing direction on next steps as outlined by ESBA and BACB guidelines.

Gives recommendations for staff development needs to Supervisors/Managers to review and discuss with employees based on observations, competency tools, and ESBA’s and BACB guidelines.

Reports the need for additional didactic training for specific areas for RBT and other clinical staff. If employee does not successfully complete the training/certification, must escalate within 24 hours to Manager.

Documents observations of performance in the field and provides input to People & Performance department in order to develop and update career development/ training content, materials, job aids, and procedures.

Assists in the creation of training tools and materials to achieve departmental strategic directives

Coordinates with managers/directors to ensure training is provided to all assigned regions as needed.

Oversees the follow up of new hires needing certification training and supervision.

Position / Certification supervising this position

BCABA