Behaviour Consultant, Contract Position

**Program: OAP URS**

**Position: Behaviour Consultant**

**Duration: Fulltime, Contract (Ending October 2, 2025)**

**Salary positing is on the established grid and is pro-rated to Canopy’s fiscal year $53,616.97 - $70,556.27, annually.**

**Who We Are**:
At Canopy Support Services, we empower individuals to overcome barriers and live their best lives. Within a welcoming, safe, accessible environment, those with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have access to individualized supports, resources, and specialized clinical services.

Taking an individualized approach, we recognize that everyone’s abilities and circumstances are unique, and that they require different supports or solutions to achieve their best quality of life. Our skilled staff work together as a team. Through creativity, strong communication, and collaboration, they empower and inspire confidence in those we serve. We are a capacity building organization. Through planning, evidence-based approaches and proactive measures, we form a stable foundation in the lives of those we support. With knowledge and expertise, we play a part in strengthening our community and its people.

Our primary service area extends across five regions -Peterborough, Haliburton, Northumberland and Kawartha Lakes, Durham and is expanding virtually and physically to reach new areas. With a growing team of over 100 dedicated staff, we work with individuals of all ages to support them in different stages of their lives.

At Canopy Support Services, people are listened to, supported, and empowered. We find individualized solutions that build on strengths, and are inspired by best practice and rooted in community. Together, we build capacity, forming a stable foundation in the lives of those we support.

**What We Can Offer You**:

- Being a part of an engaged and caring work place
- Contributing to our Strategic Directions and FOCUS Accreditation standards
- Strong work/life balance with a work week of 35 hours with emphasis on working some evenings
- An agency culture founded on our core values of Innovation, Safety, Inclusivity, Transparency, and Excellence

**What We Will Ask of You**:
The BC provides short term applied behaviour analysis (ABA-based) programming to empower the families of children/youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) between the ages of 0 -18 experiencing one or more high risk behaviours across Northumberland, Peterborough, Haliburton, City of Kawartha Lakes. The Behaviour Consultant’s goal is to prevent crisis by implementing supports within the guiding framework of URS -Respond, Stabilize, Prepare and Repair. The BC researches relevant literature and designs, monitors and evaluates behaviour plans to support desired treatment outcomes in line with the individual goals. The BC takes a leadership role in providing parent and or caregiver training as well as training to school staff to assist in the independent implementation of ABA-based strategies. The BC conducts various assessments, writes reports and behaviour plans, and provides effective evidence-based and ethical practices delivered in accordance with the model outlined by the provincial Ontario Autism Program (OAP) guidelines and clinical framework. In collaboration with a Clinical Supervisor (CS), the BC supports the Behaviour Technician (BT) in the direct implementation of ABA-based programming. The BC also works closely with the URS multidisciplinary team. The BC’s role is to ensure best practices are followed and quality service is delivered while enhancing the overall quality of life and independence for service users accessing Autism Services.

**Primary Responsibilities**:

- Provide Applied Behavioural Analysis -based services and supports to eligible children/youth with ASD ages under 18
- Perform assessments and baseline measurements
- Create behaviour programs in the areas of Social Skills, Behaviour/Emotion, Daily Living and Communication to meet the needs of parent goals
- Provide consultation in parent training, feedback, corrective feedback and support
- Facilitate groups of 3-10 children or adolescents with ASD
- Provide weekly service to clients for low to moderate intensity and duration of service
- Collect and analyze data to measure the progress of the child/youth
- Receive guidance from the Clinical Supervisor and provide guidance to the team of Behaviour Technicians and Instructor Therapists

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor Degree in Social Science or equivalent
- Registered Behaviour Analyst with the College of Psychologists and Behaviour Analysts of Ontario qualifications or ability to obtain RBA (Ont.) is an asset
- 3+ years of experience working with the ASD population and preferred Experience with ABA based behavioral strategies and functional behavioural assessments and procedures
- Experience writing clinical reports and making evidence based recommendations
- Compassionate and