Join our Team
Join our Specialty Services Team at Centra Wellness Network (CWN), who provide services to children with autism in the community, office, and in their homes. The Behavior Analyst will develop clear, effective, and prescriptive plans based on individual assessments and will ensure services are directed towards meaningful outcomes for individuals served through ongoing data review and analysis of plans. The Behavior Analyst will ensure that the delivery of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), meets all requirements and will assign and oversee the work of others implementing the treatment plan. Your office is surrounded by nature, located in Bear Lake, Michigan just miles from beaches and hiking trails. Bear Lake is a short drive to Cadillac, Manistee and Ludington, charming towns outfitted with shopping, unique restaurants and breweries.
Staff at CWN are valued and receive several great benefits including but not limited to:
- Generous Paid Time Off starting at 160 hours (frontloaded and prorated your first year)
- 12 paid holidays
- Premium Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Health savings account with annual agency contribution
- Awesome coworkers!
Who We Are
CWN is the publicly funded Community Mental Health Service Provider for Manistee and Benzie Counties. We’re an established company since the early 1980s (some might even call us vintage!) CWN is about making our communities the best they can be, one person at a time! We seek to provide excellent support to those who need it the most by helping them find their place in our community and live life to the fullest! By holding each other up, we hold our communities up together. It’s a serious business, but we leave room for fun, team building and staff support. We’re frequently asking, what’s the impact on clients and what’s the impact on staff?
Who You Are
Your superpower is stellar communication and a collaborative team approach. You are known for your:
Customer Service Skills: You treat clients and your co-workers with dignity and respect. You are professional in appearance and work habits. You set and work within your boundaries.
Teamwork: You work collectively to enhance team performance. You promote discussions to share knowledge and experience and assist co-workers in contributing to the overall success of the team and agency.
Communication: You successfully communicate expressively and receptively, including active listening, frequently interpretating and translating facts and information, explaining situations to people and advising them of alternative or appropriate courses of action.
Productivity and Quality: You provide quality services to clients and their families and meet or surpass expectations set by your supervisor.
Problem Solving and Decision-Making Skills: You independently identify and solve problems by applying sound problem-solving skills. Your decisions reflect the best interest of the organization and you accept responsibility for the decisions you make.
Integrity: You demonstrate honest behavior in all of your roles, tasks and responsibilities, and you follow through on your commitments.
Reliability: You are personally responsible and complete your work in a timely, consistent manner. You are regularly present and punctual, and you work the hours necessary to complete your assigned work.
About the Role
As the Behavior Analyst you are a part of a team providing groundbreaking services. You will ensure that the delivery of ABA meets all the requirements from the state and Behavior Analyst Certification Board (BACB) and will assign and oversee the work of others implementing the treatment plan.
Your role is to:
- Provides parent training and consultation to other professionals or educators.
- Provides training and treatment plan specific supervision to Behavior Technicians (BTs) and procedural implementation of programming.
- Conduct approved assessments.
- Research, share and incorporate best practices to supervise, plan, and revise treatment plans, behavior support plans and programming.
- Develop individualized treatment plans and individualized behavior support plans for individuals with autism and monitor clients’ progress towards goals.
- Effectively communicate with parents and caregivers regarding client progress as instructed.
- Demonstrate knowledge of universal precautions, preventing transmission of communicable disease.
- Operate using standards of practice including but not limited to confidentiality, recipient rights and emergency protocol.
- Collaborate with treatment team including client, parents and caregivers, outside professionals and co-workers.
- Perform duties in accordance with well-defined policies, procedures and instruction.
We strive to continually improve the access to and the quality of care for our clients, so your supervisor may assign you to complete other tasks.
At CWN, we recognize all people’s vulnerabilities to trauma and traumatic experiences and how that impacts daily living. We use practice models suitable for our job that are evidence based or best practice to support our staff’s daily functions, models of treatment, strength-based initiatives and quality outcomes. We encourage those with lived experience with mental illness, developmental disability, and/or substance use disorders to apply to bring valuable insight and perspective to our agency.
