Clinical Assistant-NBU

Overview

FULL-TIME HOURS: 3pm-11:30pm, weekend shifts required Saturday AND Sunday (7am-3:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm) PART-TIME HOURS: 3pm-11:30 pm, weekend shift required Saturday AND Sunday (7am-3:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm) PAY RATE: $17 - $20 per hour with excellent benefits + $2,500 Hiring Incentive Great opportunity for college students - Flexible schedules to accommodate classes (Must be able to complete a 3-week training course at the start of employment) Bilingual (English/Spanish) candidates encouraged to apply Play a key role in the care and support of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities admitted to the inpatient Neurobehavioral Unit (NBU); implementing behavioral and educational protocols while collecting data on patient-specific target behaviors. You’ll work closely with patients — ranging from children to young adults (usually up to age 21) — who are admitted for treatment of severe behavioral challenges. You’ll be part of a dynamic team supporting individuals with a variety of diagnoses, including autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, intellectual disability, sleep disorders, feeding disorders, stereotypic movement disorder with self-injurious behavior, and various genetic, metabolic and chromosomal disorders.

Patients are admitted for the assessment and treatment of severe behavioral problems. Common behavioral problems treated in the NBU include: · Self-injurious behavior (SIB) · Aggression · Destructive or disruptive behavior

Responsibilities

1.

• Review and implement a variety of patient-specific and general NBU written behavioral and educational protocols. 2. Accurately collect and clearly report data on specified patient behaviors; provide daily record of patient care activities. 3.
• Follow unit safety procedures using safe handling techniques and approved physical management procedures (including patient transport and blocking for both patient protections from self-injurious behaviors, and self-protection from staff-directed aggressive behavior) and ensure the safety of your surroundings. 4.
• Provide physical care (washing/bathing, toileting, personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, etc.) to all patients as appropriate to the patient’s level of adaptive skills and needs.
• Ensure patient has all appropriate personal care and treatment items at all times. 5.
• Implement patient’s daily schedule of unit activities and engage patient even during times of unscheduled specific activity; adhere to general unit schedule. 6.
• Utilize appropriate prompting sequence, as minimally as needed, to assist the patient to participate in task or activity at the highest level of independence; modify tasks to ensure maximum patient participation and engagement; assist in developing and implementing activities designed to increase target appropriate skills. 7.
• Maintain unit cleanliness and organization by replacing materials after use, returning supplies and materials to proper storage locations, ensuring safe, clean and well-supplied programming areas, cleaning up after self and patients and keeping areas free of extraneous materials. 8.
• Assist in training activities for newly hired clinical assistants, as needed. 9.
• Assist in the assessment of adaptive, leisure and self-help skills, potential reinforcers and problem behaviors, as needed.

Qualifications

REQUIREMENTS

• Ability to participate and pass Behavior Management Techniques, safe transport techniques (patient lifting, carrying, etc.) and other employee competency trainings provided by department. EDUCATION : High School Diploma or GED required,
• Bachelor’s
• Degree preferred. EXPERIENCE: Six (6) months of experience working with the developmentally disabled and/or individuals with severe behavior problems preferred. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: · Able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. · Able to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make the discriminations in sound. · Visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of assigned work. · Able to be physically present at the assigned job site. ·
• Ability to move about and work with children with severe behavioral disorders, including the ability to assume a variety of physical postures sufficient to interact with and manage patient behavior such as standing, walking, squatting, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting of materials, objects, and/or patients. ·
• Ability to lift and carry child, adolescent and adult patients and provide physical restraint according to protocol. * May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, blood pathogens, and aggressive or combative patients.

Benefits

Keyword: Applied Behavioral Analysis, ABA, Clinical, Pediatric, Psychology, Behavior Minimum pay range USD $32,423.04/Yr. Maximum pay range USD $50,596.42/Yr.