Career Opportunities

JUNE 30, 2022| EXTERNAL/INTERNAL JOB POSTING

COMPETITION NO. 22-074
Position: Behavior Consultant – Casual

Location: Surrey, Langley, Tri-Cities

Hours: As needed

We are looking for a Behavior Consultant to join our Sources Access team! This individual must possess excellent communication skills, love working with children and youth, and is willing to travel within the lower mainland!

About Sources

SOURCES is a community-based non-profit organization that has been providing support, encouragement, and hope for individuals and families in White Rock, Surrey, Delta, Langley, Prince George, and Parksville for 40 years. We serve 40,000 individuals yearly and that is all owing to our dedicated team. We welcome people of all genders, races, cultures, ethnicities, and abilities. We strive to create more vibrant and resilient communities by offering support to children, youth, families, persons with disabilities, seniors, LGBTQ2S+ individuals, and others who are coping with isolation, addiction, mental illness, poverty, disability and conflict. We also support our communities through leadership, education, and volunteerism.

SOURCES is also committed to learning about, celebrating and incorporating Indigenous knowledge into our practices as we continue our work in truth, reconciliation, and resurgence.

We value diversity, respect, and collaboration as we are all striving to promote the same mission—social wellness for our community.

Description of Position

Reporting to the Manager of Positive Behavior Support Services, the Behavior Consultant position is a casual employee of Sources Community Resources.

The Behaviour Consultant will offer a full range of consultation and support services to families of children with neuro-developmental disabilities, including building a therapeutic alliance with the family, conducting skill assessments, presenting the intervention design to the family, training parents and interventionists proper implementation of intervention designs, and collaborating on current progress and future skills with the family and all team members.  This includes modelling, role-playing, educating and further hands-on training to parents and interventionists as well as developing data sheets/graphs, analyzing data collection to determine success of the program/ necessary modifications to the program.

Program Specific Responsibilities:

Carries a caseload of clients as assigned and as required.
Conducts Family Ecology assessment, builds therapeutic alliance, presents intervention design, collaborates with family on implementing family-centred designs, models, role-plays, teaches parents and children, other caregivers and at times generalizes programing to community members.
Monitors closely the progress of each child, their parents, caregivers or service providers and re-designs or alters programs as required.
Collects and analyses data on the success of the implemented programs (tracking, reporting, and recording data).
Writes accurate initial, progress and discharge reports, on time, and in a professional manner and provides all reports for review to the Manager before distribution.
Keeps informed about new developments and current trends and new research in the field Applied Behaviour Analysis treatment and training of children with Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and other pervasive developmental disorders.

Qualifications:

• ·         Minimum of bachelor’s degree related to the field of Behavior Analysis or Board Certified Assistant Behavior Analyst (BCaBA)
• ·         Minimum 1 year experience as a Behaviour Consultant, working within the home, school, and community or 2 years’ experience working as a Senior/ Lead Interventionist
• ·         Experience with Behavioral Skills Training, needed for ongoing or parent/interventionist training
• ·         Experience with development of behavior plans, data sheets, graphing, and analyzing of data collection
• ·         Experience with a variety of assessment tools (e.g., ABLLS-R, AFLS, VB-MAPP, etc.)
• Effectively utilize Office suite including Excel, Word, Outlook, and central data systems
• Effectively communicate professionally, verbally and written in English
• Standard First Aid and CPR (Training may be accessed through Sources)
• Non-violent Crisis Intervention Training (Training may be accessed through Sources)
• Criminal Records check through the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Criminal Records Review Program
• Valid Class 5 BC Driver’s License and driver’s abstract

Start Date: August 02, 2022

Salary: $33.10 per hour

Closing Date: July 08, 2022.  Internal candidates will be contacted by July 11, 2022.

How to apply: Please email your cover letter and resume to pyu@sourcesbc.ca.  Please include where you saw this job posting in your email. Thank you.