JOB DESCRIPTION
POST: Positive Learning Specialist Board Certified Behaviour Analyst 37 weekly hours
SALARY RANGE: PS1 29 - 31
POST HOLDER: BCBA, and MSc in Positive Behaviour Analysis
RESPONSIBLE TO:
JOB PURPOSE
Under an agreed system of supervision, take a lead role within the school in response to the needs of pupils who need special support to overcome barriers to learning. The individual will use Applied Behaviour Analysis based interventions to learn and increase appropriate social behaviours and reduce inappropriate social behaviours.
Work with school staff to teach pupils the skills they need to reach their full potential and reduce barriers to learning.
Support and evaluate positive behaviour support practices throughout the school.
To provide leadership and management to the team of registered behaviour technicians, to ensure that the team meets the school's priorities.
To provide and deliver a regular programmeme of ABA training to all staff and occasionally to parents.
To lead and deliver MAPA training to all school staff, monitoring the implementation of MAPA principles consistently throughout the school.
MAIN DUTIES
Line Management Responsibilities Where Appropriate
• Provide efficient and effective management for teachers and all staff in the delivery of positive behaviour support programmemes, to ensure excellent practice and consistency.
• Provide efficient and effective management to support teachers, behaviour analysts in training, registered behaviour technicians and internship students, with continuing professional development in positive behaviour support programmes.
• Work with the senior leadership team to evaluate the impact of provision and identify priorities to achieve a shared vision.
• Supervising, supporting and mentoring topological behaviour analysts, registered behaviour technicians, and internship students.
• Coordinate and delegate tasks within the ABA / positive behaviour support team.
• Establish and maintain inter-agency and inter-team communication.
• Co-ordinate transfer assessments and produce individual case reports.
• Monitor the quality of reports produced and shared by the ABA / positive behaviour support team.
• Managing other teaching assistants who are qualified as a registered behaviour technician.
• Undertake recruitment / induction / evaluation / training / mentoring of other teaching assistants.
• Hold regular team meetings with managed staff.
• Represent teaching assistants at teaching / management / other appropriate staff meetings
Support for Foundation Phase Pupils
• Leading assessments, based on VB-MAPP (Verbal Behaviour Milestones Assessment and Placement Programmeme) and ABLLS-R (Assessment of Basic Language and Learning Skills) to teach essential language, social, self-help, academic and motor skills through Coaching methods such as Discrete Trial Tests (DTT).
• Ability to hold DTT competently and to provide direct training to classroom staff.
• Writing programmemes and training classroom staff on developing Natural Environment Training (NET) skills.
Support for Primary and Secondary Pupils
• Write self-help development plans (e.g. toilet, eating, undressing, brushing teeth) using applied behaviour analysis techniques e.g. Task Analysis, Active Support.
• Write and train classroom staff on following educational plans based on behaviour analysis e.g. Headsprout and Direct Teaching (Direct Instruction, DI).
• Work with teachers to write functional behaviour plans and give classroom staff training on how to follow them.
• Train and assist classroom staff in the use of functional communication systems e.g. PECS, PODD, Grid 3, AAC, Makaton etc
• Take and annalise data to take a baseline on target behaviour, loyalty to behaviour plans, and interventions that have been set.
• Establish productive working relationships with pupils, and to carry out stimulus preferences assessment to establish which stimuli are favored by a student on one occasion, to use as a reinforcer to increase appropriate behaviours.
• Work with teachers to create individual, functional whole-class / individual timetables.
• Meet with parents to discuss behaviour plans, and give training on how to follow them.

Support for the School
• Comply with and assist in the development of policies and procedures relating to child protection, health, safety and security, confidentiality and data protection, reporting all concerns to the appropriate person.
• Be aware of and to support differences, and to ensure that all pupils have equal access to learning and development opportunities.
• Attend and participate in regular meetings.
• Contribute to the overall ethos / work / aims of the school.
• Identify own strengths and areas of expertise and to use these to advise and support others.
• Be responsible for providing out of school learning activities within guidelines established by the school.
• Contribute to the identification and implementation of appropriate out-of-school learning activities that consolidate and extend work within the school.
• Establish constructive relationships and communicate with other agencies / professionals, alongside the teacher, to support pupils' achievement and progress.
• Participate in training and other learning activities as required.