Clinical Director in Forest, Virginia at VIA Centers for Neurodevelopment

The Clinical Director will be responsible for working directly with the Director of the Lynchburg VIA Day School to ensure comprehensive, evidence-based, and behavior analytic services are employed. Additionally, this position will ensure the high quality service provision and supervision expected across all VIA school locations. This position will oversee a clinical team of behavior analysts responsible for student progress, staff competence, and parent satisfaction. The Clinical Director role will also be a member of VIA’s Quality Improvement Committee.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Clinical Systems Development, Implementation, and Quality Assurance

• Collaborate with the Director of the School to develop and implement best practice policies specific to student skill acquisition and behavior reduction programs and procedures.
• Develop a program-wide peer-review process ensuring student behavior support plans are state-of-the-art and progressing in collaboration with the Director of School and Quality Improvement Department.
• Oversee the data collection systems to ensure a high level of treatment fidelity.
• Ensure BCBAs maintain VIA professional standards as noted in VIA’s policy and procedures and employee handbook while providing services.
• Ensure BCBAs maintain BACB ethical standards by providing services based on BACB ethics codes.
• Provide guidelines of when physical management should and should not be used.
• Provide weekly updates on classrooms/teams during management meetings.
• Audit at least 2 classroom/team meetings a month to ensure the professional presentation of data system log, client graphs, billing notes, supplies, and materials, in a VIA approved manner.
• Monitor program-wide data (learner progress and staff competency) on a monthly basis using VIA’s outcome data tracking spreadsheet.
• Review learner baseline and assessment data with BCBA in regards to proposed IEP/ behavioral goals to ensure goals can be met at the next ISR/reauthorization period.
• Assist BCBAs with the identification of appropriate behavioral assessments based on the learner’s clinical profile.
• Attend learner team meetings such as Monthly Data Reviews (MDRs) and Individual Student Reviews (ISRs).

Professional Development and Supervision

• Provide staff training on VIA’s clinical policy and procedures as requested and monitor staff adherence to VIA’s clinical policy and procedures.
• Provide weekly supervision (individual and group) to direct reports (BCBAs) to ensure student progress, staff competence, and parent satisfaction.
• Identify specific training needs for BCBAs and behavior technicians based on monthly performance checklist outcomes during observations.
• Provide direct supervision and learner/family support to learners who become at risk for more intensive staffing (e.g., 2:1 staff: consumer) or loss of VIA placement, which includes supervising all functional analyses, resulting in treatment implementation procedures, and parent training.
• Supervise the development and implementation of behavior plans in compliance with VIA standards.
• Supervise the proficiency check process & evaluate the process annually.
• Conduct mid-year and annual performance evaluations of BCBAs.
• Supervises the implementation of RBT supervision by the BCBAs in accordance with current BACB standards & audit RBT hours on a monthly basis.
• Provide BCBA/BCaBA candidates with field experience as prescribed by the BACB standards.
• Provide BCBA/BCaBA supervision weekly & conduct performance checks on a quarterly basis.

Other Activities as Needed

• Oversee & assist BCBAs with providing appropriate performance feedback to staff.
• Attend parent meetings as needed or requested.
• Recommend classroom learner space needs including furniture arrangement, materials present, safety equipment needed, simulated vocational skill areas set up, desensitization areas, and program-specific areas to ensure student safety.
• Provides supplemental training for BCBAs with identified performance gaps.
• Completes special projects as needed.

Position type

This is a full-time position. This position involves working with students who exhibit challenging and/or aggressive behavior.

• Master’s degree
• Five (5) or more years (preferred) as a BCBA specializing in the treatment of severe and/or dangerous behavior.
• BCBA certification and VA Behavior Analysis license eligible required.
• Five (5) years (preferred) of experience managing clinical staff, including the development and implementation of effective systems for evaluating staff performance and maximizing efficiencies.

Valid driver’s license required.