08/16/2023
Practical Skills Clinic is hiring a FT therapist in the Southern Fairfield County.
Our clients are achieving meaningful, long-term outcomes, and we look forward to sharing the joy of that success with incoming team members. Registered Behavior Technician certification is preferred, but not required.
Working here, you’ll find a unique setting, including:
- a safe, dignified, televisable, and effective environment
- an empathetic, values-based approach that you can feel good employing
- staff/client and staff/staff relationships characterized by respect, trust, and rapport
- methodology founded in cutting-edge research, applying the methodology of the Interview-Informed Synthesized Contingency Analysis (IISCA)/Practical Functional Assessment (PFA) and Skills-Based Treatment (SBT)
Qualities of a successful team member include:
- like-minded (in agreement with our values and methods)
- compassionate
- organized / reliable
- good with children
- relevant experience (teacher’s aide, camp counselor, parent) is preferred, but not required
Current opportunities & job details:
- full time hours Mondays through Fridays (School hours/ schedule)
- pay rates $22-$24
- benefits available including medical, dental, vision, and life, as well as 401k
Essential Functions:
- maintain respect for & confidentiality of all clients, including keeping all client information confidential; maintain & protect the wellbeing of all clients
- responsible for providing direct therapy / behavioral intervention in 1:1 sessions
- adhering to all procedures, as outlined
- implementation of individualized goals, programs, and checklists (as trained), including an individualized Treatment Plan, as written and directed by the case supervisor
- implementation of skills-based treatment, including teaching communication, tolerance, and cooperation to clients under challenging contexts, while maintaining client safety and dignity
completion of daily program data and maintenance of necessary documentation
- participation in training on an ongoing basis
- professional interaction with clients, parents, colleagues, and others
Job requirements:
- high school diploma
- demonstration of thorough understanding of skills learned during required trainings
- mobility: ability to move from seated to standing position as the desires of the client mandate, to circulate for extended periods of time, and to lift/carry up to 25 pounds
- communication: ability to communicate so that others can clearly understand normal conversation, and to hear and understand spoken English at normal conversational volume
- vision: sufficient visual acuity/processing ability to: read laws and codes, rules and policies, and other printed matter, and to observe clients
Please apply at https://practicalskillsclinic.com/join-our-team/
