Board Certified Behaviour Analyst

Are you a skilled, experienced, resilient and proactive Board Certified Behaviour Analyst who is passionate about making a difference to the lives of children and young people with autism? If so, we encourage you to get in contact.

Due to our expanding pupil numbers we are keen to welcome an additional BCBA to join our transdisciplinary team. Working through a person centred framework, you will be responsible for designing, supervising, and implementing teaching, learning and behaviour support programmes for children and young people across the school.

This is a full time, permanent role, with a start date as soon as possible to support our education provision.

Main duties will include:

• Working as part of a trans-disciplinary team to support the delivery of effective and appropriate teaching, learning and behaviour support in all areas of school life as a result of trans-disciplinary working underpinned by an evidence-based behavioural model of practice.
• Being responsible for conducting functional assessments and developing comprehensive function based Positive Behaviour Support plans and interventions to reduce behaviour that challenges and monitoring the effectiveness of these plans through development of robust data collection systems and analysis of the data.
• Using evidence-informed practices to develop personalised learning support.
• Conducting a range of assessments including assessment for learning, assessment of learning, admissions assessments, behavioural assessments and assessments of maintenance and generalisation.
• Preparing for and contributing to Person Centred Reviews.
• Working in partnership with parents, colleagues and other professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
• Playing an active role in the school’s approach to Positive Handling, becoming a Team-Teach Trainer (training will be provided, however the candidate is required to be open to this training), and provide training, support and advice to all staff in Abbey School to ensure any use of restrictive intervention is used in accordance with the law and clear ethical values and embedded within comprehensive proactive plans to reduce restriction.