Behavior Specialist San Jose/Palo Alto

At Children’s Health Council, we believe in the promise and potential of every child, teen, and young adult. Our mission is to transform young lives by providing culturally responsive best-in-class learning and mental health services to families from diverse backgrounds regardless of language, location, or ability to pay. We specialize in ADHD, Learning Differences, Anxiety & Depression, and Autism. Our strategic priorities include: Being people first and empowering our workforce, creating systems built on equity, access, and inclusion, elevating technology, and strengthening our community partnerships.
Esther B. Clark Schools provide transformative education in a caring, therapeutic day school setting where children with emotional and behavioral issues re-engage in learning and develop the positive behaviors necessary to transition back to a more traditional school setting. It’s one of the most successful programs of its kind.

Under the direction of the Behavior Program Manager, the Behavior Specialist will oversee the positive, prudent and timely implementation of each child’s behavior program in an assigned self-contained classroom

Responsibilities:

• Under the guidance of the Behavior Program Manager, prepare and conduct weekly social skill lessons.
• Collect and analyze behavioral and replacement skill data.
• Complete initial incident report and submit in a timely fashion to Behavior Program Specialist within 24 hours after a behavior emergency.
• Performs other related duties as required and assigned.
• Co-facilitate three formal parent conferences per year with follow-up written summary; communicate progress via phone and email as necessary.
• Provide direction to classroom assistants in the implementation of Positive Behavior Intervention Plans (PBIP), data collection procedures, and utilization of PBT.
• Create and facilitate behavior skills training sessions, focusing on IEP goal progress.
• Regularly communicate with parents on each student’s engagement with the school’s behavior program, specifically when students incur consequences due to acute behavioral incidents during the school day.
• Attend bi-weekly group supervision and individual supervision meetings with Behavior Program Manager.
• Co-facilitate, with the classroom teacher, weekly team meetings.
• Train parents in effectively using the PBT within the home environment.
• Collaborate with the classroom therapist to align therapeutic goals, IEP behavioral goals, and the student’s personal goals.
• Develop, monitor, and report on each student’s behavioral performance as each relates to the student’s behavioral IEP goals.
• Develop, monitor progress, and report on each student’s behavioral IEP goals and benchmark measures.
• Conduct daily check-ins with students and prepare daily PBT school-to-home communication.
• Conduct, develop, implement and evaluate function-based positive behavior intervention plan plans (PBIP) as necessary.
• Prepare written summary, update goals and participate in IEP meetings and parent /teacher conferences.
• Develop, implement and monitor the classroom Positive Behavior Training (PBT) management system (School-wide level system).
• Support students in weekly Therapy Activity Group and Art therapy sessions.
• Be trained and execute procedures prescribed for behavior emergencies and/or escalating crises.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.

Qualifications:

• Board Certified Behavior Analysts or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst, and/or Registered Behavior Technician strongly preferred
• Knowledge and experience developing, reporting, and administering IEP plans.
• A background in Applied Behavior Analysis is preferred.
• Master’s Degree in Applied Behavior Analysis, Advanced degree in education or mental health field, and/or
• Special Education teaching background with an undergraduate college degree and/or
• Minimum three years working in a school setting working with children who have serious emotional disturbances and/or learning disabilities preferred.
• Ability to develop, prepare, deliver and monitor IEP’s based on identified skill and behavioral deficit areas.
• Knowledge of basic computer skills in order to communicate via email and preparing documents on a word processor.
• Knowledge of and classroom teaching experience with children who have serious emotional disturbances and learning disabilities.
• B.A in Education, Psychology, or related field and/or
• Ability to work on an interdisciplinary team and to provide guidance/supervision to teaching assistants/interns.

Competitive Benefits:
We value our employees’ time and efforts. Our commitment to your success is enhanced by our competitive compensation and an attractive and extensive benefits package for employees working at least .75 FTE or greater, including:

• Paid vacation
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Free continuing education classes offered on-site
• Paid sick leave
• Training and development
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Employees who work for a non-profit may qualify for loan forgiveness under PSLF
• 401(k)
• Life and personal accident insurance
• Adoption assistance
• Licensed mental health providers may be eligible for California loan repayment
• 14-16 paid holidays each year
• Educational reimbursement
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits

We work to maintain the best possible environment for our employees, where people can learn and grow with the company. We strive to provide a collaborative, creative environment where each person feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.