Job Description

Clinical Assistant-NBU at Kennedy Krieger Institute summary:

The Clinical Assistant-NBU provides direct care, supervision, and behavioral support to patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities in an inpatient Neurobehavioral Unit. Responsibilities include implementing behavioral protocols, collecting data on patient behaviors, providing physical care, and ensuring safety using approved management techniques. This role supports children, adolescents, and young adults with severe behavioral disorders and requires experience with developmental disabilities and physical resilience to manage challenging behaviors.

Overview:

FULL TIME HOURS : 3pm-11:30pm, weekend shifts required Saturday AND Sunday (7am-3:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm)

PART TIME HOURS: 3pm-11:30 pm, weekend shift required Saturday OR Sunday (7am-3:30pm or 3pm-11:30pm)

**Exciting opportunity for college students-Flexible work schedules that can accommodate student classes

The Clinical Assistant will provide direct care and supervision of patients admitted to the Inpatient Neurobehavioral Unit, implement written behavioral and educational protocols, and collect data on patient-specific target behaviors. The Clinical Assistants work with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities admitted to the inpatient NBU for treatment of severe problem behavior. The Neurobehavioral Unit primarily serves children, adolescents, and young adults up to age 21; however, we periodically admit individuals over the age of 21. Patients have a variety of diagnoses, including: autism spectrum disorder, developmental delay, intellectual disability, sleep disorders, feeding disorders, stereotypic movement disorder with self-injurious behavior, and various genetic, metabolic and chromosomal disorders. Patients are admitted for the assessment and treatment of severe behavioral problems.

Common types of behavioral problems treated on the NBU include:

• Self-injurious behavior (SIB)

• Aggression

• Destructive or disruptive behavior

Bilingual (Spanish) candidates welcomed to apply!

Keyword: Applied Behavioral Analysis, Applied Behavioral Analysis, Clinical, Pediatric, Psychology

Responsibilities:

1. Review and implement a variety of patient-specific and general NBU written behavioral and educational protocols.

2. Accurately collect and clearly report data on specified patient behaviors; provide daily record of patient care activities.

3. Follow unit safety procedures using safe handling techniques and approved physical management procedures (including patient transport and blocking for both patient protections from self-injurious behaviors, and self-protection from staff-directed aggressive behavior) and ensure the safety of your surroundings.

4. Provide physical care (washing/bathing, toileting, personal hygiene, dressing, feeding, etc.) to all patients as appropriate to the patient's level of adaptive skills and needs. Ensure patient has all appropriate personal care and treatment items at all times.

5. Implement patient's daily schedule of unit activities and engage patient even during times of unscheduled specific activity; adhere to general unit schedule.

6. Utilize appropriate prompting sequence, as minimally as needed, to assist the patient to participate in task or activity at the highest level of independence; modify tasks to ensure maximum patient participation and engagement; assist in developing and implementing activities designed to increase target appropriate skills.

7. Maintain unit cleanliness and organization by replacing materials after use, returning supplies and materials to proper storage locations, ensuring safe, clean and well-supplied programming areas, cleaning up after self and patients and keeping areas free of extraneous materials.

8. Assist in training activities for newly hired clinical assistants, as needed.

9. Assist in the assessment of adaptive, leisure and self-help skills, potential reinforcers and problem behaviors, as needed.

Qualifications:

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

1. Must be able to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction.

2. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication and to make the discriminations in sound.

3. Must have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness and thoroughness of the work assigned.

4. Must be physically present at the assigned job site.

5. Must have the ability to move about and work with children with severe behavioral disorders, including the ability to assume a variety of physical postures sufficient to interact with and manage patient behavior such as standing, walking, squatting, reaching, pushing, pulling, lifting of materials, objects, and/or patients.

6. Must be able to lift and carry child, adolescent and adult patients and provide physical restraint according to protocol.

*May be exposed to such occupational hazards as communicable diseases, blood pathogens, and aggressive or combative patients.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Must be able to participate and pass Assaultive Behavior Management Workshop, safe transport techniques (patient lifting, carrying, etc.), and other employee competency trainings that are provided by department.

EDUCATION:

High School Diploma or GED required, Bachelor's Degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

Six months of previous experience working with the developmentally disabled and/or individuals with severe behavior problems is preferred.

Benefits:

Kennedy Krieger Institute offers excellent benefits including medical, dental, vision, 401K with match, tuition reimbursement, free parking and child care subsidies! In addition, we offer rich professional development opportunities.

The targeted staring salary/hourly rate for an entry-level candidate for this position is $17/h - $20/h.

Minimum pay range: USD $32,423.04/Yr. Maximum pay range: USD $50,596.42/Yr.

Keywords:

Clinical Assistant, Neurobehavioral Unit, Applied Behavioral Analysis, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Behavioral Support, Patient Care, Inpatient Care, Behavior Management, Assaultive Behavior Management

Job Tags

Hourly pay, Full time, Part time, Flexible hours, Shift work, Sunday, Saturday,

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