Safety Team Member

About the role

Responsible for assisting individual students and staff in crisis situations so that the educational program is safe and orderly.

Responsibilities

• Maintain awareness of current treatment plans for students (IEP, BSP), personalized behavior plans, and individual staff limitations and students’ safety plans, if applicable.
• Communicate effectively with education staff and other agency staff as needed to provide feedback on management issues.
• Attend staff meetings and in-service training as required by supervisor.
• Assist in residential and day program arrival and dismissal procedures.
• Monitor classroom transactions as well as time in hallways, bathroom, and cafeteria.
• Supervise students when transitioning between classes.
• Follow and support all guidelines in the Student Handbook and Code of Conduct.
• Provide crisis assistance to school staff as needed.
• Assist and participate in activities which improve the physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development of students.
• Develop supportive and nurturing relationships with students while consistently reinforcing program expectations.
• Contribute to or participate in education-based projects and activities.
• Other tasks and responsibilities may be assigned from time to time as business needs require.

Requirements

• HS Diploma or GED.
• At least one year of experience with at-risk youth and/or youth with special education needs preferred.
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Maintains up-to-date certification in TCI.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing.
• An equivalent combination of education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Pay

$20/hr

About the organization

Vanderheyden is committed to the Sanctuary Model - a blueprint for clinical and organizational change which, at its core, promotes safety and recovery from adversity through the active creation of a trauma-informed community. The Sanctuary Model's focus is not only on the people who seek services, but equally on the people and systems that provide those services.