Caravel Autism Health

Director

• Oversees and manages the operations and administrative functions of their clinic.
• Directly supervises, mentors and coaches clinicians and is responsible for the performance and results of the clinical team, ensuring that clients and families are receiving high quality, effective services to address client needs.
• Ensures the consistent implementation and effective management of clinical policies, procedures and best practices.
• Effectively leads clinical team.
• Manages clinical staff, including scheduling, coaching, development, and mentoring of clinicians.
• Provides guidance, ensures staff are being developed appropriately, manages performance, and deals proactively with employee relation issues.
• Develops and communicates clinical team objectives, setting and communicating performance standards.
• Completes and/or approves performance evaluations for Seniors, Senior Interns, BCBAs and Lead BCBAs.
• Completes designated steps of compensation review process for clinicians.
• Requests employment and compensation changes as appropriate, including promotions, pay raises, etc.
• Ensures appropriate staffing levels for the clinic based on client needs.
• May be involved with assigning Senior Staff and BCBAs to clients based on client needs, experience level, schedule, and capacity.
• May be directly involved with recruitment activities and/or working with Human Resources on clinical staffing.
• Oversees all clinical training, including Behavioral Technician, Senior, and Senior Intern Training.
• Coordinates continuing education training.
• Responsible for leading clinic meetings with Lead BCBA’s.
• Monitors, evaluates and addresses employee turnover and satisfaction.
• Develops action plans to address identified issues.
• Oversees the intake process with new clients.
• In conjunction with the Lead BCBA, serves as a liaison between the clinicians and administrative staff, communicating administrative changes and policies.
• Provides clinical perspective to administrative staff and vice versa.
• Develops, communicates, and implements appropriate policies and procedures to ensure quality service to our clients.
• Solicits and evaluates clinician suggestions and implements as appropriate.
• Communicates effectively with Executives as appropriate as a Leader of CAH.
• Devises plans for crisis situations.
• Conducts all supervisory and program management responsibilities for families participating in autism treatment, in collaboration with the Senior Therapists and Senior Interns.
• Establishes individualized home-based behavior intervention programs using evidence-based strategies of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA).
• Ensures all standards of care are followed per state and insurance guidelines.
• Oversees client programming.
• Develops effective ways to implement ABA strategies and address problem behaviors.
• Interacts with clinical teams to communicate programming recommendations and implementation strategies.
• Uses the Caravel Autism Health (CAH) Qualities of Effective Treatment (QET), and clinical data to improve and adjust treatment programs to improve outcomes.
• Proactively addresses client issues and follows-up as appropriate to ensure satisfactory resolution.
• Solicits feedback from parents/families regarding their satisfaction level with services provided.
• Ensures parent/family concerns are addressed and resolved in a timely and thorough manner.
• Interacts with others outside of the organization and family regarding client care.

Clinic Director

Analyst

• Oversee the full range of ABA treatment services including assessment, programming, progress monitoring, program modification, parent training, care coordination with other providers, and insurance authorization.
• Ensures all standards of care are followed per state and insurance guidelines.
• Provide clinical recommendations regarding treatment intensity, modality, and transition/ exit planning, in collaboration with parents and other stakeholders, with the emphasis on delivering developmentally appropriate and socially valid client outcomes.
• Evaluate and modify treatment based on the Caravel Quality of Effective Treatment (QET) measure.
• Provide training and supervision to all levels of clinical staff to ensure high quality treatment services.
• Supervise others with a focus on developing supervisees’ independent clinical skills, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and fulfillment of certification requirements.
• Collaborate with other clinicians and cross functional team members.
• Complete all administrative tasks in a timely fashion, including but not limited to generating reports, completing insurance reviews, and completing forms to ensure appropriate funding for client services and staff management.

Lead Board Certified Behavior Analyst, BCBA

• Oversee the full range of ABA treatment services including assessment, programming, progress monitoring, program modification, parent training, care coordination with other providers, and insurance authorization.
• Ensures all standards of care are followed per state and insurance guidelines.
• Provide clinical recommendations regarding treatment intensity, modality, and transition/ exit planning, in collaboration with parents and other stake holders, with the emphasis on delivering developmentally appropriate and socially valid client outcomes.
• Evaluate and modify treatment based on the Caravel Quality of Effective Treatment (QET) measure.
• Provide training and supervision to all levels of clinical staff to ensure high quality treatment services.
• Supervise others with a focus on developing supervisees’ independent clinical skills, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and fulfillment of certification requirements.
• Collaborate with other clinicians and cross functional team members.
• Complete all administrative tasks in a timely fashion, including but not limited to generating reports, completing insurance reviews, and completing forms to ensure appropriate funding for client services and staff management.

Board Certified Behavior Analyst, BCBA

• Oversee the full range of ABA treatment services including assessment, programming, progress monitoring, program modification, parent training, care coordination with other providers, and insurance authorization
• Ensures all standards of care are followed per state and insurance guidelines
• Provide clinical recommendations regarding treatment intensity, modality, and transition/ exit planning, in collaboration with parents and other stake holders, with the emphasis on delivering developmentally appropriate and socially valid client outcomes
• Evaluate and modify treatment based on the Caravel Quality of Effective Treatment (QET) measure
• Provide training and supervision to all levels of clinical staff to ensure high quality treatment services
• Supervise others with a focus on developing supervisees’ independent clinical skills, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and fulfillment of certification requirements
• Collaborate with other clinicians and cross functional team members
• Complete all administrative tasks in a timely fashion, including but not limited to generating reports, completing insurance reviews, and completing forms to ensure appropriate funding for client services and staff management

Therapist

• Assists BCBA with baseline and ongoing assessments of new clients using appropriate assessment protocols and procedures.
• Implements programs to address socially significant needs of the client.
• Ensures that indicators of assent and withdrawal of assent are noticed, honored, and measured.
• Works with BCBA to implement programming to promote communication skills.
• Creates, prepares, and organizes instructional materials.
• Train and monitor BTs and RBTs in the implementation of programs and procedures.
• Reviews data on treatment targets/short-term goals, modifies existing protocols, and progresses targets.
• Collaborates with family to implement programming and provides support to achieve prioritized family goals.

Senior Therapist

• Oversee the full range of ABA treatment services including assessment, programming, progress monitoring, program modification, parent training, care coordination with other providers, and insurance authorization.
• Ensure all standards of care are followed per state and insurance guidelines.
• Provide clinical recommendations regarding treatment intensity, modality, and transition/exit planning, in collaboration with parents and other stakeholders, with an emphasis on delivering developmentally appropriate and socially valid client outcomes.
• Evaluate and modify treatment based on the Caravel Quality of Effective Treatment (QET) measure.
• Provide training and supervision to all levels of clinical staff to ensure high quality treatment services.
• Supervise others with a focus on developing supervisees’ independent clinical skills, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills, and fulfillment of certification requirements.
• Collaborate with other clinicians and cross functional team members.
• Complete all administrative tasks in a timely fashion, including but not limited to generating reports, completing insurance reviews, and completing forms to ensure appropriate funding for client services and staff management.