Leominster Public Schools

2024-2025 School Year / Full time

Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) - Johnny Appleseed Elementary School

Title: Board Certified Behavior Analyst

Reports to: Director of Special Education and/or Special Education/Building Administration

Essential Functions:

• Serves as a service provider and behavior consultant for special education students requiring services
• Serves as a member of a clinical team including the Principal, Special Education Teacher, General Education Teacher, Team Chairperson, and related service providers
• Train Tutors/Paraeducators so they can appropriately assist in the implementation of behavior plans.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree and BCBA Certification
• Extensive experience working with children and their families
• Experience working with children at the elementary level desired
• Experience in completing Functional Behavior Assessments and developing behavior improvement plans
• Excellent listening, communication, and organizational skills

Responsibilities:

• Work in conjunction with the other District BCBAs to provide support to the District’s substantially separate programs, as well as other identified students.
• Analyze available student data to help determine where, when, and why problem behaviors occur.
• Directly observe students and complete Functional Behavior Assessments, according to established procedural guidelines.
• Define all target behaviors in objective and measurable terms and design an appropriate data collection system to measure the target behaviors.
• Integrate appropriate setting event, antecedent, teaching, and consequences strategies to reduce problem behavior and increase alternative replacement behaviors.
• Provide professional training as well as train staff members on the implementation of the behavior support plans.
• Monitor behavior data and provide descriptive progress notes on a quarterly basis (or more frequently if needed.)
• Conduct treatment fidelity assessments to ensure proper implementation of the behavior support plan.
• Review behavior data, meet and discuss with the appropriate staff member any discrepancies noted on the behavior data (e.g. lack of documentation, inappropriate restrictions or lack of appropriate consequences; situations in which the current behavior program or treatment approach were not followed appropriately.)