behavioural therapist
Education:
Other trades certificate or diploma.
Work setting:
- Work in employer's/client's home.
- Child care centre.
Tasks:
- Consult with other health care professionals to evaluate treatment plans .
- Review reports from health care professionals to determine patients' current and potential functioning levels.
- Apply psychological theory and principles regarding behaviour and mental processes.
- Develop and implement counselling and intervention programs to assist clients in determining goals and means of attaining them.
- Initiate, design and implement specialized therapy programs.
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses :
- Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) Certificate.
- Emergency child care first aid and CPR.
Work experience with special needs students:
Children with an intellectual disability.
Security and safety:
Criminal record check.
Work conditions and physical capabilities:
Bending, crouching, kneeling.
Employment terms options:
- Early morning.
Experience:
1 year to less than 2 years.
Employment terms options:
- Morning.
- Day.
Health benefits:
- Dental plan.
- Health care plan.
- Vision care benefits.
Financial benefits:
- As per collective agreement.
- Group insurance benefits.
- Life insurance.
- Pension plan.