Careers with SCDDB

Full-time employees can access:
Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance
Simple IRA with 3% matching
Paid time off
Paid holidays
Tuition reimbursement
Professional development assistance

All employees receive:
Cell phone stipend
Car Insurance stipend
Mileage Reimbursement at 58.5 cents per mile

Job Title: Direct Support Professional (DSP)

Reports To: Program Supervisor/Director

Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) work with individuals who have developmental disabilities in the residential program. DSPs assist person served to become more integrated in their communities by maximizing individual strengths, interests, and abilities. The aim is for the person served to direct their own activities that create a meaningful life including contributing to the community and developing relationships. DSPs ensure that meaningful and person-centered services are provided to individuals participating in independent living services; DSPs implement the services for each individual per service descriptions, rules, and regulations. DSPs will follow and implement all Individual Service Plans and provide daily documentation on services provided. DSPs will assist individuals as needed with all activities of daily living as outlined in their individual plan as well as grocery shopping, housekeeping, bookkeeping, etc., and provide opportunities for community activities and social interactions that are age-appropriate and of their choosing. DSPs assist in scheduling, transportation, and communications with all ongoing medical appointments as needed as well as assist with medication management as needed.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Achieving outcomes that characterize a high quality of life.

• Listen carefully and communicate respectfully and clearly with the persons served that you support.
• Support individual choice, understanding, and learning new skills.
• Understand, follow-through, and document support plans, goals, activities, progress, etc.
• Support person served with daily living skills and individual support needs.
• Facilitate activities that provide person served with social capital and connections to the community.

Assist in planning and structuring activities. Engage in respectful communication.

• Use person-first or preferred language.
• Maintain confidentiality, privacy, and integrity.
• Talk with person served and include them in all aspects of their lives.

Encourage healthy behaviors (both physical and mental)

• Understand and follow supports for optimal health.
• Administer medications accurately and reliably.
• Ensure that person served is free from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.
• Complete needed reporting and documentation.

Provide safeguards and appropriate leadership skills in challenging situations.

• Use positive behavioral techniques to avoid challenging situations and promote respect and dignity.
• Be a safe and conscientious driver.
• Know the proper techniques and be able to respond to emergencies such as accidents, fires, tornados, or other situations.

Representing SCDDB in a positive manner

• Uphold agency values.
• Understand and follow agency systems and protocols.
• Follow agency policies and procedures.
• Communicate positively and clearly with your supervisor and coworkers.
• Meet and maintain established timelines and deadlines.
• Maintain satisfactory attendance, staff meetings, and other assigned agency functions.
• Complete needed trainings within the established timeline.
• Complete duties assigned by supervisor or designee.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED
• Ability to pass criminal/registry background checks.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Class E driver’s License.
• Ability to pass and maintain required trainings such as CPR/First Aid, Medication Administration, and Positive Behavioral Support Training
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Ability to perform each essential duty and responsibility.
• Exceptional teamwork and problem-solving ability.

Working Conditions:

DSPs work in a changing environment that adjusts to the needs of the persons served in program services. The environment may be fast-paced with interruptions, distractions, and deadlines. DSPs need to be flexible and be able to adjust to changing needs or activities. Depending on the needs of the individuals, the work can be physically demanding including transferring or supporting people with mobility needs, lifting, or moving items up to 50 lbs., walking or standing for extended periods of time, or providing support through CPR/First Aid, behavioral support, and other interventions.

Required Trainings:

New Employee Orientation, Intro to Developmental Disabilities, CPR/First Aid, Positive Behavior Supports, Medication Administration, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation, Blood Borne Pathogens, Person-Centered Planning, HIPAA/Privacy & Confidentiality, and any other assigned trainings.

Job Title: Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Reports To: Executive Director

Employee Type: 40+ hours per week, salaried, exempt

Company Description:

SCDDB works with individuals who have developmental disabilities by providing services to assist persons served to become more integrated in their communities by maximizing individual strengths, interests, and abilities. The aim is for the person served to direct their own activities that create a meaningful life including contributing to the community and developing relationships. Support may occur in a variety of settings and may include providing personal care, assistance with daily living activities, teaching/developing skills, advocating with person served, assisting in communication and self-expression, and supporting the person in meeting his or her own goals.

Job Summary

As an experienced, credentialed BCBA, you will be responsible for conducting functional behavior assessments to ensure the effective implementation of all treatment plans and programming to assist clients in meeting or exceeding their behavior objectives and skills goals. You will find satisfaction working alongside clients with varied diagnoses and developing behavior plans based on these assessments. You will enjoy the comradery of SCDDB staff and persons served.

Responsibilities

• Adheres to professional and legal requirements, the principles of behavior analysis and demonstrates sound professional judgment at all times.
• Collaborates with families, caregivers and all service providers as necessary to ensure continuity of care.
• Performs direct and indirect assessments to identify the function of client’s behaviors.
• Develops a treatment plan (including behavior support plan) based on the functions of the behavior and treatment methodologies that are evidence-based.
• Attends all relevant meetings for clients, including treatment team meetings, IEP/ISP (as allowed/needed) and internal meetings. Adequately demonstrates their abilities to work effectively as a part of a clinical team.
• Attends any insurance authorization review calls for any individual on their caseload.
• Collects data before and during the implementation of the plan so that the plan’s efficacy can be assessed and data-based decisions can be made.
• Provides direct instruction/ongoing supervision, training and support to clients, staff members and family members during regularly-scheduled visits.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of the implemented treatment plan and modifies the plan as necessary.
• Upon receiving information from the director, the BCBA will initiate services with new clients in a timely manner.
• Manages caseload and prepares and submits all required documentation on time. This includes, but is not limited to: assessments, treatment plans/BSPs, insurance updates as required, session notes after every session, at least monthly analysis of the data, updating the treatment plans as needed, participation in calls with insurance companies, etc.
• Supervises Registered Behavior Technician’s (RBTs), BCaBAs, and graduate students, if assigned to their caseload.
• Performs other duties as requested/assigned

Required Education/Prior Experience:

• Must have Master of Arts degree in related field and BCBA certification number.
• 2 years + of experience working with people with developmental disabilities required; supervisory experience preferred.

Qualifications:

• Must be able to identify and resolve obstacles in a timely manner; gather and analyze data; develop alternative solutions; must work well in group problem solving situations.
• Must maintain confidentiality at all times.
• Must write clearly and informatively; edit work for grammar and spelling and complete sentences; vary writing style to meet the needs of the agency/client; must be able to explain anything in reports in layman’s terms to families.
• Must follow policies and procedures; complete tasks on time or notify the appropriate parties if a deadline will not be met; support the organization’s goals and values.
• Must display original thinking and creativity; meet challenges with resourcefulness; generate suggestions for improving work, develop innovative approaches and ideas.
• Ability to pass criminal/registry background/DMV checks.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Class E driver’s License.
• Ability to pass and maintain required trainings such as CPR/First Aid, Medication Administration, and Positive Behavioral Support Training, within the established timelines.
• Ability to perform each essential duty and responsibility.

Work Environment:

BCBA will work in a changing environment that adjusts to the needs of the individuals in program services. The environment may be fast-paced with interruptions, distractions, and deadlines. The work can be physically demanding including transferring or supporting people with mobility needs, lifting, or moving items up to 50 lbs., walking or standing for extended periods of time, or providing support through CPR/First Aid, behavioral support, and other interventions.

Required Training:

Successfully complete CPR/First Aid, Positive Behavior Supports, Abuse, Neglect & Exploitation, Blood Borne Pathogens, Person-Centered Planning, HIPAA/Privacy & Confidentiality, and any other assigned training.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, including for those with disabilities and veterans.