Caravel Autism Health

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 ensuring therapy is conducted to establish and maintain cooperation, promote self-advocacy, autonomy, and engagement.
• Works with BCBA to implement programming to promote communication skills.
• Creates, prepares and organizes instructional materials.
• Trains and monitors BTs and RBTs in the implementation of programs, and behavioral intervention procedures.
• Works directly with the client, modifying existing protocols and probing new skills as directed by the BCBA.
• Collaborates with family during Family Treatment Guidance sessions.
• Communicates effectively with parents, caregivers, and other professionals as instructed.

Senior Therapist

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.

Senior Therapist

Clinic Director