Becoming an RBT comes with certain responsibilities. Your credential belongs to you and it is your responsibility to ensure that you maintain it by meeting the requirements that go along with being certified.
The requirements include
- adhering to the RBT ethics code and self-reporting requirements
- completing a renewal application when certification is due to expire and
- meeting the BACB?s supervision requirements for RBTs.
It is your responsibility to track your supervision. You need to keep track of the number of hours you are working as an RBT every day. You also need to make sure that you request supervision to ensure you meet the supervision requirements.
Supervision must include at least two face-to-face, real-time contacts per month. Supervision cannot be carried out by phone or email. Your supervisor must observe you delivering interventions during at least one of these supervision meetings.? While on-site observation is preferred, observation by video-conferencing is also acceptable.
With regard to the duration of monthly supervision, the BACB guidelines are clear that an RBT must obtain supervision for 5% of the hours that provide ABA interventions. This means that if you work for 100 hours a month, you should receive a minimum of 5 hours of supervision. If you work for 120 hours a month, you should receive a minimum of 3 hours of supervision.
An appropriate supervisor for an RBT would be a BCBA or a BCaBA.
In rare circumstances, another behavioural health profession that has behaviour analysis in its scope of practice and who are competent in ABA can provide supervision when oversight is provided by an RBT Requirements Coordinator who is employed at the same organisation.
If at any point you do not have an RBT Supervisor/RBT Requirements Coordinator on record with the BACB who is providing your ongoing supervision, you? may not practice and your certification will be considered inactive.