behavioural therapist

Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years in programs dealing with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Work Setting:

• Work in employer's/client's home
• Day care centre or nursery school
• School or educational institution/establishment
• Persons with an intellectual disability

Tasks:

• Consult with other health care professionals to evaluate treatment plans
• Evaluate the effectiveness of counselling and the patient's outcomes
• Examine the behaviour
• Record observations
• Review reports from health care professionals to determine patients' current and potential functioning levels
• Provide therapy
• Counsel individuals and groups to achieve more effective personal, social and vocational development and adjustment
• Analyze the patient during the treatments
• Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them
• Counsel clients, provide therapy and mediation services, and facilitate group sessions
• Tend to emotional well-being of children
• Identify children's individual learning needs
• Provide assistance to students with special needs
• Assist clients/guests with special needs
• Collaborate with specialists to develop programs for clients' special needs
• Develop and implement child-care programs that support and promote the physical, cognitive, emotional and social development of children
• Instruct students on behaviour and personal development
• Assess clients' cognitive, social and emotional barriers to establish adaptation goals

Policy and Program Experience:

Work Experience with Special Needs Students:

• Emotionally disturbed
• Children with an intellectual disability

Type of Treatment Experience:

• Behaviour modification or behavioural therapy

Experience with Special Needs Children:

• Children with a mental health disability
• Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or attention deficit disorder (ADD)

Counselling Specialization:

• Special education

Security and Safety:

• Criminal record check

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities:

• Fast-paced environment
• Work under pressure
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Physically demanding

Personal Suitability:

• Accurate
• Client focus
• Efficient interpersonal skills
• Flexibility
• Interpersonal awareness
• Organized
• Reliability

Are you available for shift or on-call work?
Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?