Behavioral Supports Manager

**Employment Type:** [Full time/Exempt] **Work Schedule:** Monday - Friday **Location:** Allegheny County with local Travel Required **Sign-On Bonus: $2,000** **Make a Meaningful Impact** In this role, you will help build and lead Achieva’s Behavioral Supports program while directly enhancing the quality of life for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through clinical leadership, staff development, and person-centered planning, you will empower people to live meaningful, self-directed lives. Your work will strengthen the quality, consistency, and compassion of support across the organization, ensuring services are grounded in Every Day Lives principles and focused on what matters most to the people we support in their pursuit to lead a life of personal significance. **About Achieva** For over 70 years, Achieva has been committed to supporting and including people with disabilities and their families. We envision a community where everyone leads a life of personal significance. Achieva provides personalized services and opportunities that respect each person's unique aspirations. **Position Summary** The Behavioral Supports Manager provides leadership and clinical oversight to a team of Behavior Specialists while maintaining a caseload of up to 8 people. This role oversees the development and implementation of person-centered behavioral support services, including functional behavior assessments and Positive Behavioral Support Plans. Working collaboratively with interdisciplinary teams, the Behavioral Supports Manager ensures services align with Everyday Lives principles, evidence-based practices, and regulatory requirements to promote positive outcomes and enhance quality of life for the people we support. **Key Responsibilities** - Provide strategic and operational leadership in the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of Achieva’s Behavioral Supports program, establishing a person-centered, evidence-based model aligned with Achieva’s mission, values, and commitment to everyday lives. - Ensure the rights, preferences, goals, choices, and voices of each person supported are consistently respected and fully integrated into all aspects of service planning and delivery. - Lead with a strong commitment to what matters most to the individual, ensuring all services are individualized, meaningful, and aligned with each person’s vision for a quality life. - Foster and maintain effective communication and collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, including individuals supported, families, Behavior Specialists, Direct Support Professionals, Support Coordinators, therapists, and other stakeholders to ensure coordinated and holistic supports. - Build and sustain a culture of professionalism, accountability, and respect while serving as a role model for Achieva’s mission, values, and person-centered principles. - Provide clinical oversight, supervision, consultation, and ongoing coaching to Behavior Specialists to ensure the delivery of high-quality, ethical, and effective behavioral support services. - Lead the recruitment, onboarding, training, and ongoing professional development of Behavior Specialists, ensuring competency in Positive Behavioral Supports and person-centered practices. - Ensure consistent implementation of evidence-based Positive Behavioral Support strategies focused on prevention, skill development, and least restrictive, restraint-free approaches. - Oversee the development, review, and implementation of Functional Behavior Assessments and individualized Behavioral Support Plans, including related safety plans, risk mitigation strategies, and intervention protocols. - Ensure compliance with Individual Support Plans (ISP), applicable state regulations (including Pennsylvania Chapter 6100, where applicable), and all contractual and documentation requirements. - Lead ongoing evaluation of Behavioral Support Services by analyzing outcomes, implementing best practices, and driving…