Date of Posting: June 13, 2025

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title:                           (2) Registered Behavior Technician 

Reports To:                Special Education Supervisor

Primary Function: A Behavior Technician is a credentialed paraprofessional who works as a team member with teachers, counselors, school behavioral health workers and other appropriate personnel to establish positive student contacts that develop appropriate and positive behavior modifications enabling students to succeed. The Behavior Technician will assist instructional personnel by participating as a team member in the development and monitoring of comprehensive behavioral objectives, goals and plans.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Works with students to affect behavior changes and evaluates student’s needs and provides interventions to redirect behavior.
• Approximating the desired behavior before students can demonstrate it, as a way of teaching it to them.
• Coaching students to exhibit desired behaviors as opportunities to do so arise in the course of the day-to-day routine.
• Implements behavioral programs designed to make positive and appropriate changes.
• Assesses crisis situations and defuses situations using conflict resolution and crisis management techniques.
• Reinforces appropriate behaviors and redirects negative behaviors Provides values clarification including rules, expectations and consequences Implements consequences for inappropriate behavior.
• With proper training, physically restrains students if necessary for safety.
• Ensures consistency of behavioral standards by coordinating with appropriate student contacts.
• Monitors physical and emotional changes in students and reports to appropriate personnel.
• Consults with teachers, support staff, and administrators to obtain information and advice on prior behavior problems, and provides information as necessary concerning behavioral concerns.
• Supports and maintains a professional rapport with program/site staff Assists by monitoring student behavior changes, assisting with academics, and supervising various activities during the course of the instructional day to maintain a controlled

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Student behavior plans are carried out by the BT on a daily basis, and consistency within the treatment plans is critical, as well as time management.
• The Behavior Technician is responsible for upholding the highest quality of care.
• Giving meaningful rewards when a student exhibits a desired behavior.
• Giving students cues to perform desired behaviors, then gradually reducing those cues’ strength until student no longer need them.
• Teaching students the discrete but related steps in desired behavioral sequences, and providing reinforcement as they master each one.
• Collecting data about students’ behaviors through direct observation.
• Assisting BCBAs as directed with behavior reduction assessments and skill acquisition plans.
• Teaching students the specific behavior skills as defined in the students’ IEP.
• Prepare, enter, and update all data related to the students on the caseload.
• Describe and record students’ behaviors in measureable terms, and assist with assessment procedures.
• Focus on changing the child's behavior by observing and measuring the behavior in real life environments.
• Gather behavioral data to track progress in reaching behavioral objectives identified in the behavior plan and periodically modify the plan, under the supervision of the BCBA, to adapt to the child's response to the intervention.
• Implement learning programs (communication, self-help, and play skills) as written and instructed by the BCBA.
• Collect data on all behaviors targeted and meet with supervisor weekly to analyze the information gathered and participate in initial and ongoing trainings.
• Complete mandatory training and refresher training.
• Properly report all critical incidents and safety concerns regarding students receiving services.
• Ensure that documentation is completed in a timely manner and in accordance with established organizational procedures.

Minimum Qualifications:  To successfully perform this position, a person must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily and have:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Must have completed the Registered Behavior Technician (RBT) credential requirements and exam and abide by the RBT Ethics Code.
• A strong desire to work with children is essential. The ideal candidate would be patient and open-minded, with a hard-working personality.
• Positive disposition; strong sense of responsibility.
• Good verbal and written communication skills and good interpersonal relationship skills.
• Desire for continued learning opportunities, and willingness to embrace instruction.
• Ability to work with multi-disciplinary team members, and a desire to work with young children.
• Experience providing behavioral services to children with special needs.
• Reliable attendance record.

Skills and Abilities

• Must possess the ability to acquire a working knowledge of Board of Education policies and procedures.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organization and time management skills, the ability to interpret verbal and written instructions, and the ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate ability to work well with staff, students, and the public while keeping information confidential and maintaining an ethical attitude.
• Reliable and dependable with the ability to follow a work schedule and report to work on time.

Work environment/Physical Demands:

• Employee works primarily in a controlled environment.
• Requires repeated use of hands to finger movements, handing or feeling objects, use of tools or controls, and ability to talk and hear.
• Requires the ability to sit, stand, walk, climb stairs, stoop, crawl, balance, twist/turn, bend at waist, reach, kneel, and crouch.
• Have specific vision abilities, to include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Have the ability to push, pull, lift and/or move, up to 15 pounds.
• Possess effective communication, judgmental, planning and human relations’ skills, and will be required to work under periods of stress due to level of the position responsibility.

• Be subject to inside office environment conditions with moderate noise levels.
• Must be able to communicate with staff and colleagues over the telephone and face-to-face.  The ability to perform documentation and paperwork, operate a computer, and process written information is also required.
• Function at a high level and must possess the judgment and maturity required for making decisions that affect large numbers of staff, students and their families.  The nature of the job requires dealing with sensitive information and strict standards of confidentiality must be adhered to.
• May be required to work under stressful conditions when dealing with difficult issues as they relate to student needs and parent involvement in the placement process.

The Marple Newtown School District is an equal opportunity education institution and will not discriminate in its educational programs, activities or employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, ancestry, disability or other legally protected classification.  This policy is in accordance with state and federal laws, including Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; the Age Discrimination Act of 1975; and The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.  Inquiries may be directed to Human Resources at 610-359-4380.