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Position:	Behavioral Therapy Specialist (Ref: 16315)
Location:	Nashville, TN 37214 USA
Duration:	5 Months 20 Days - Contract
Openings:	4
Deadline:	02/28/2025
Pay Rate:	Login

Description:

***Onsite

We are seeking a Behavioral Therapy Specialist who will provide residential care, support and maintain the physical, intellectual, social, and emotional capabilities of people with an intellectual disability. In addition, candidate will provide personalized care, self-help training, ambulating, communication and socialization skills, intensive care for personalized habilitation training in self-help, language development, and motor skills for people with intellectual disabilities.

Essential Job Duties
• Follows the individual support plan to ensure that the needs and the active treatment requirements of persons served are met
• Communicates with families, conservators, and employers of persons served and the public to share information and meet active treatment requirements. –
• Analyzes medical treatment and training data to detect changes in needs, behavior, and abilities.
• Analyzes environmental data to ensure the safety and appropriate environment for persons served.
• Promotes teamwork and working together.
• Trains other staff on active treatment interventions to meet the requirements of individual support plans of the persons served.

Schedule
• Three (3) – 12.5-hour shift per week
• Rotating schedule with Weekends, Nights, and Holidays required
• Overtime

Education and Experience:
• Education equivalent to graduation from high school and experience equivalent to one year of full-time work in teaching, business sales, and marketing, or providing services for disabled persons.

Substitution of Education for Experience:
• Additional college or technical coursework with at least nine quarter hours in education, a social or behavioral science, industrial arts, nursing, or mental health or human services field from an accredited college, university, or technical school may be substituted for the required experience.

Necessary Special Qualifications:
• A valid vehicle operator's license will be required for employment in this position.
• All necessary training is provided on-site.
• Pre-employment Drug Testing and a Criminal Background Check is Required.

Required / Desired Skills

• Ability to Work Independently (Required 1 Years)
  
• Activities of daily living (ADLs) (Required 1 Years)
  
• Basic Life support (BLS) (Required 1 Years)
  
• Handling Difficult Personalities (Required 1 Years)