Behavior Therapist Intern
La Crosse, WIInternship
Behavioral Health Market Context
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Job Description
best interests of the clients.
Essential Functions
• Provides direct therapy to clients following client program plans ensuring goals and objectives are being met
• Documents therapy services accurately and timely (i.e. data collection, reporting parent and Partners In Excellence communications and client information)
• Works under supervision to provide direct therapy
• Completes the required technical training and participates in ongoing training opportunities
• Redirects, intervenes, observes, and monitors client behaviors
• Communicates effectively with all staff members
• Makes sound decisions and uses good judgment when dealing with clients, parents, and coworkers
• Demonstrates dependability and consistency in therapy and other job related activities
• Communicates daily progress and client concerns to the appropriate staff members
• Organizes and cleans clients’ space and equipment
• Assists in keeping the facility safe, organized, sanitary, and guides others to do the same
• Assists clients with personal care including: dressing, toileting, personal hygiene, food, nutrition, and diet needs
• Attends and participates in meetings
• Reports all safety concerns to the Safety Director or his/her direct supervisor
• Maintains client confidentiality at all times
• Greets parents and clients by name and engages in respectful conversations with clients and fellow employees
• Engages only in competent exchanges of information with parents. Seeks assistance when necessary.
• Uses discretion when discussing personal information with coworkers and parents
• Answers basic questions from parents or seeks answers from others
• Follows supervisor’s directions
• Respects and positively reinforces co-workers
• Respects Partners’ property and assets
• Maintains a professional appearance, wearing comfortable clothing that meets or exceeds Partners’ dress code
• Maintains a positive attitude and accepts feedback from supervisors in a respectful and constructive manner
• Promotes Partners’ mission statement at and away from work
• Asks for assistance from appropriate staff when unsure what to do
• Reports issues/concerns to the appropriate person
• Arrives on time for all shifts and has a positive attendance record
• Responds to pages in a timely manner
• Performs other duties as assigned
Required Education and Experience
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• General knowledge of typical and special needs clients
• Ability to lift fifty (50) pounds
• Computer proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Dependable, consistent, and tactful
• Ability to problem solve and make appropriate decisions
• Successfully passed an initial and subsequent background checks (no history of felonies, substantiated client maltreatment or vulnerable adult incidents, or disqualifying misdemeanors)
• Must possess the interpersonal skills to be playful, enthusiastic, and bring a high level of energy into the therapeutic situation
• Must have demonstrated the ability to read written treatment directions, collect numeric data, and write progress notes
• Must have demonstrated the ability to work with a team and comply with supervisory direction
• Must have demonstrated a clear ability to accept corrective feedback, comply with supervisory direction, and have shown a solid history of seeking and completing required and optional training
Essential Functions
• Provides direct therapy to clients following client program plans ensuring goals and objectives are being met
• Documents therapy services accurately and timely (i.e. data collection, reporting parent and Partners In Excellence communications and client information)
• Works under supervision to provide direct therapy
• Completes the required technical training and participates in ongoing training opportunities
• Redirects, intervenes, observes, and monitors client behaviors
• Communicates effectively with all staff members
• Makes sound decisions and uses good judgment when dealing with clients, parents, and coworkers
• Demonstrates dependability and consistency in therapy and other job related activities
• Communicates daily progress and client concerns to the appropriate staff members
• Organizes and cleans clients’ space and equipment
• Assists in keeping the facility safe, organized, sanitary, and guides others to do the same
• Assists clients with personal care including: dressing, toileting, personal hygiene, food, nutrition, and diet needs
• Attends and participates in meetings
• Reports all safety concerns to the Safety Director or his/her direct supervisor
• Maintains client confidentiality at all times
• Greets parents and clients by name and engages in respectful conversations with clients and fellow employees
• Engages only in competent exchanges of information with parents. Seeks assistance when necessary.
• Uses discretion when discussing personal information with coworkers and parents
• Answers basic questions from parents or seeks answers from others
• Follows supervisor’s directions
• Respects and positively reinforces co-workers
• Respects Partners’ property and assets
• Maintains a professional appearance, wearing comfortable clothing that meets or exceeds Partners’ dress code
• Maintains a positive attitude and accepts feedback from supervisors in a respectful and constructive manner
• Promotes Partners’ mission statement at and away from work
• Asks for assistance from appropriate staff when unsure what to do
• Reports issues/concerns to the appropriate person
• Arrives on time for all shifts and has a positive attendance record
• Responds to pages in a timely manner
• Performs other duties as assigned
Required Education and Experience
• Must be at least 18 years of age
• General knowledge of typical and special needs clients
• Ability to lift fifty (50) pounds
• Computer proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Dependable, consistent, and tactful
• Ability to problem solve and make appropriate decisions
• Successfully passed an initial and subsequent background checks (no history of felonies, substantiated client maltreatment or vulnerable adult incidents, or disqualifying misdemeanors)
• Must possess the interpersonal skills to be playful, enthusiastic, and bring a high level of energy into the therapeutic situation
• Must have demonstrated the ability to read written treatment directions, collect numeric data, and write progress notes
• Must have demonstrated the ability to work with a team and comply with supervisory direction
• Must have demonstrated a clear ability to accept corrective feedback, comply with supervisory direction, and have shown a solid history of seeking and completing required and optional training
Qualifications
- •Respects and positively reinforces co-workers
- •Respects Partners’ property and assets
- •Must be at least 18 years of age
- •General knowledge of typical and special needs clients
- •Ability to lift fifty (50) pounds
- •Computer proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
- •Dependable, consistent, and tactful
- •Ability to problem solve and make appropriate decisions
- •Successfully passed an initial and subsequent background checks (no history of felonies, substantiated client maltreatment or vulnerable adult incidents, or disqualifying misdemeanors)
- •Must possess the interpersonal skills to be playful, enthusiastic, and bring a high level of energy into the therapeutic situation
- •Must have demonstrated the ability to read written treatment directions, collect numeric data, and write progress notes
- •Must have demonstrated the ability to work with a team and comply with supervisory direction
- •Must have demonstrated a clear ability to accept corrective feedback, comply with supervisory direction, and have shown a solid history of seeking and completing required and optional training
Benefits
Responsibilities
- •intervention services directly to clients and other client related activities
- •The BT Intern actively works toward
- •improving his/her therapy skills
- •The BT Intern is expected to consistently provide high quality services that place
- •Provides direct therapy to clients following client program plans ensuring goals and objectives are being met
- •Documents therapy services accurately and timely (i.e. data collection, reporting parent and Partners In Excellence communications and client information)
- •Works under supervision to provide direct therapy
- •Completes the required technical training and participates in ongoing training opportunities
- •Redirects, intervenes, observes, and monitors client behaviors
- •Communicates effectively with all staff members
- •Makes sound decisions and uses good judgment when dealing with clients, parents, and coworkers
- •Demonstrates dependability and consistency in therapy and other job related activities
- •Communicates daily progress and client concerns to the appropriate staff members
- •Organizes and cleans clients’ space and equipment
- •Assists in keeping the facility safe, organized, sanitary, and guides others to do the same
- •Assists clients with personal care including: dressing, toileting, personal hygiene, food, nutrition, and diet needs
- •Attends and participates in meetings
- •Reports all safety concerns to the Safety Director or his/her direct supervisor
- •Maintains client confidentiality at all times
- •Greets parents and clients by name and engages in respectful conversations with clients and fellow employees
- •Engages only in competent exchanges of information with parents
- •Seeks assistance when necessary
- •Uses discretion when discussing personal information with coworkers and parents
- •Answers basic questions from parents or seeks answers from others
- •Follows supervisor’s directions
- •Maintains a professional appearance, wearing comfortable clothing that meets or exceeds Partners’ dress code
- •Maintains a positive attitude and accepts feedback from supervisors in a respectful and constructive manner
- •Promotes Partners’ mission statement at and away from work
- •Asks for assistance from appropriate staff when unsure what to do
- •Reports issues/concerns to the appropriate person
- •Arrives on time for all shifts and has a positive attendance record
- •Responds to pages in a timely manner
- •Performs other duties as assigned