What are the responsibilities and job description for the PART TIME BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONIST position at INDIANA UNITED METHODIST CHILDRENS HOME INC?
Job Details
Job Location: Indiana United Methodist Children's Home - Lebanon, IN
Position Type: Part Time
Salary Range: $21.00 - $21.00 Hourly
Description
The Part-Time Teacher’s Aide/Behavioral Interventionist is primarily responsible for assisting teachers in day-to-day functions along with assisting, supporting, and working with youth to target, teach, and provide guidance with disruptive behaviors.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Work closely with all teachers and assist with day-to-day functions in the classroom.
- Responsible for administrating an individualized program for students keyed to specific needs identified through careful diagnostics.
- Work with students who exhibit difficulties in school subjects related to reading comprehension and fluency.
- Supervise students during lunch and in transitions.
- Substitute for teachers who are absent.
- Monitor and teach to student behavior using the Teaching-Family Model.
- Perceive opportunities to teach to appropriate and inappropriate behaviors in a school setting.
- Apply principles of behavior in order to increase positive student behavior and decrease negative student behavior.
- Verbally deescalate student behaviors which may include physical aggression verbal aggression property damage and AWOL or elopement.
- Facilitate the implementation and provide continuity for BSP strategies in the school setting.
- Perform functional analysis when needed in regards to problematic student behavior.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications
- Must be at least 21.
- Work experience with behaviorally challenging students is preferred.
- Positive attitude and be student-oriented in their approach toward discipline and consequences.
- Able to work as a team with all student care-givers.
- Follow the practices, philosophy and mission of James E Davis School.
- Have strong oral and written communication skills.
- Have operational knowledge of computer programs, including Microsoft Office, and the ability to learn new programs as required.
- Proficient command of the English language is required in order to follow the Teaching Family Model that teaches effective verbal communication with youth.
- Able to work with behaviorally challenged clients in a family-style treatment setting.
- Assertive, flexible, team-oriented, and ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
- Must be dependable regarding work schedule and punctuality.
- Ability to pass a drug screen and extensive criminal background check.
- Awareness and sensitivity to the cultural and socioeconomic characteristics of IUMCH’s youth.
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