Behavior Specialist

Full-time, 38-week position (7 hours per day) with benefits.

About the role

Responsible for identifying student strengths and addressing individual and environmental obstacles to learning.

Responsibilities

• Develop prescriptive interventions for referred and/or identified students needing behavioral support.
• Consult and collaborate with other school personnel to gather and share information.
• Assist with student behavior management and processing of referrals.
• Implement PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports) strategies to support students.
• Assist students in non-instructional areas, such as supervising lunch programs, bus duty, playground duty, corridors, study hall, and other related areas.
• Accompany students on field trips to assist with supervision.
• Develop and implement behavior and attendance support plans as needed.
• Assist teachers with parent contact to foster effective and participatory parent involvement in student education.
• Participate in IEP process, child study, and serve as a resource for the student support team.
• Assist students to maximize their ability to participate in school or learning activities.
• Follow all applicable safety rules, procedures, and regulations for assisting students, including those with disabilities or other special needs.
• Maintain a casework log to assist students and families with appropriate resources and support.
• Assist students directly toward adjustment to school.
• Collaborate with staff to support student success.
• Attend evening events (up to 2 per week) at the direction of the building principal (secondary).
• Perform other related tasks as assigned by the Principal and other central office administrators.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
• Ability to understand, apply, and use personal computers and software applications (e.g., Word, Excel).
• Ability to work in an economically, culturally, and racially diverse environment.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of information regarding students, employees, and others.
• Ability to establish a supportive and compassionate relationship with students with special needs.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with students, staff, and others.
• Effective writing and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of working with standards.
• Able to develop and maintain constructive relationships with staff, students, and administration.
• Ability to support general education instructional staff.
• Regular, reliable, and punctual attendance.

Physical and Mental Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk, hear (in a quiet or noisy environment), taste, and smell.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust/focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually loud to moderate.
• Mental functions include comparing, analyzing, communicating (orally and in writing), copying, coordinating, instructing, computing, synthesizing, evaluating, using interpersonal skills, compiling, and negotiating.