Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we’re here to create real change – helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we’re looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives – including your own. You’ll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

- - Generous Paid Time Off
- - Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
- - Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
- - Paid On-the-Job Training
- - Tuition Reimbursement
- - Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
- - Adaptable Schedules
- - Retirement Savings Plan

Job Description

Elwyn seeks an Applied Behavior Specialist (ABS) to provide intensive on-going behavioral assessment/behavior support plan implementation to individuals diagnosed with Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) or other genetic/behaviorally complicated disorders who live in a Community Residential Services (CRS). Individuals admitted to CRS’ specialized behavioral programs for placement will receive supports within a highly structured setting, including behavioral interventions. The ABS will be responsible for participating in the continued behavioral assessment across settings, as well as the application of strategies derived from an applied behavior analysis (ABA) model. The ABS will work closely with the clinical team to implement individually designed behavior plans to decrease problem behavior while increasing adaptive more appropriate responses.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- - Provides required levels of supervision for assigned persons served at CRS’ specialized behavioral program site as determined by program management in accordance with needs of individual’s support plan




- - Provides behavioral assessment and behavior support plan (BSP) implementation services to residents
- - Applies treatment strategies, therapeutic interventions and protocols derived from an applied behavior analysis (ABA) model developed by the clinical team
- - Attends ongoing trainings and keeps all trainings up to date
- - Collects data on the behavior support plans and outcomes
- - Works with individuals on daily living skills in a structured environment to obtain consistent routine and skills through teachable moments
- - In conjunction with the program management team, develops and implements appropriate recreational activities
- - Files documentation in clinical charts and purges in accordance with the purge schedule as needed
- - Prepares meals according to menu and program schedule
- - Implements outcomes and maintains residents’ progress consistent with behavior and therapeutic goals
- - Supervises, instructs, supports and provides guidance to assigned persons served in accordance with the individual’s Behavior Support Plan within the structured specialized behavioral program as well as the team-driven general support plan, and works daily toward the designated outcomes, including but not limited to:
- ensuring food security by implementing the program structure and schedule at all times in the PWS home and/or implementing any other needed structures in the specialized behavioral program
- - ensuring heightened supervision in the community to best ensure food security as needed and general safety of the individuals
- - healthcare
- - religious preferences
- - sexual preferences
- - ethnic and cultural support
- - recreational/socialization/vocational activities
- - physical fitness
- - healthy living
- - family visits and involvement, and family disagreements and grievances
- - independence
- - purchase and inventory of food and personal supplies
- - cooking
- - housekeeping
- - money management
- - social awareness
- - interpersonal relationships
- - personal hygiene
- - Follows medical guidelines to administer medication as scheduled or as

📌 Applied Behavior Specialist (Australia)
🏢 Elwyn
📍 Australia