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Join the Pennsylvania Counseling Services team as a Behavior Therapist (called a Mobile Therapist and Behavior Consultant - MT/BC)!
Are you looking for a career that makes a lasting impact in a child and families life? Are you looking for a career where you can put your education and experience to use in an atmosphere that is supportive and encourages your own growth?
As a Behavior Therapist (Mobile Therapist and Behaviors Consultant-MT/BC), you will lead the IBHS Team in treatment, with the goal to provide behaviorally focused treatment that assists children in discovering their potential in the home, school and community.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to conduct Assessments, FBA’s, collect data, collaborate with other professionals and build individualized treatment plans utilizing the principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) to help children increase functional skills and decrease problem behaviors across the home, school and community.
Benefits/What we provide:
- Supervision for licensure or BCBA may be pursued for qualified therapists for FREE
- Salaried position
- 80 hours in a pay period
- Flexible Schedule
- Small caseload sizes
- Monthly supervision is provided for your cases
- Student loan pay down program that does not require you to pay PCS back if you leave
- Company paid health insurance OR waiver pay if you are enrolled in health insurance elsewhere
- Dental, vision and disability insurance also available
- 401K option with employer match available after 1 full year of employment
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Training and Free CEUs provided
- Assistance is applying for your BSL Certificate
- Company provides laptop for work purposes
- Cell phone stipend
- Mileage stipend
- Tuition discounts available if seeking a graduate degree
You will function in two different roles in this position based on the treatment recommendations for each client:
- Behavior Consultation (BC)
- The BC service is most often prescribed for those children who are diagnosed with autism or behavioral difficulties
- BC will utilize principles of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) to set the clinical direction for BC services.
- In collaboration with school professionals, the child’s family and through direct observation of the child, the BC establish a course of treatment that is carried out by the BHT in the form of behavioral modification techniques
- These child focused interventions help children to build functional skills, teach alternative behaviors and increase independence in their home, school and community.
- The BC is always mindful of the role of the child’s family in acquiring the skills necessary to support their child once services have ended and so part of their role is in assisting with the transfer of skills to the child’s community supports and family
- Mobile Therapy (MT)
- Children who receive MT services have behavioral/mental health symptoms that cause them disruption in their functioning
- Children enrolled in MT often have a need for both behavioral interventions as well as therapy
- The specific role of the Mobile Therapist is to set the clinical direction for MT services
- This may include developing the child’s treatment plan, supervising a BHT to provide behavioral interventions to the child and/or providing 1:1 therapy on a weekly basis
- The MT also coordinates with the child’s family to ensure that they are included in supporting the child during the change process
Examples of job duties:
- Provide clinical direction of services for each client
- Create and update treatment plans, coordinate data collection and feedback
- Provide assistance with crisis stabilization
- Collaborate with other professionals
- Transfer skills to child's community supports and family
- Lead weekly supervision for the BHT's who provide more one on one interventions with each client on your caseload
- Help a child who is non-verbal to master communication of their wants and needs through picture cards
- Assist a child who struggles with peer interactions to become more socially engaged or helping a child who is failing his classes to stay focused and complete his school work
Travel to homes and schools is required to provide treatment for clients. EOE
After start up $54,000 - $65,000 (includes bonus pay, cell phone stipend and mileage stipend)