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https://morningstarboysranch.org/

Para Educator: Summer Enrichment Program Lead

Spokane, WA

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Seasonal Part-time position available

Hello! Are you looking for meaningful work in a position where your compassion, knowledge, skills, education, and creativity can shine? Are you on the path to a career in teaching, social services, or a related field and seeking an opportunity to experience that and build your skills? Then, we’d love to meet you!

Our team at Morning Star is seeking a Summer Enrichment Program Lead to provide care, empathy, and a commitment to helping our kids ages 6-13 grow and learn.

Who We Are

We are a dedicated team passionate about providing support for youth who are vulnerable and have experienced significant adversity and trauma in their lives. Our Behavioral Rehabilitation Services (BRS) program is on the South Hill in Spokane, WA is home to up to 23 kids between 6-13 years. We have been supporting youth since 1957! Agricultural programming is included in our program, with the opportunity to work with the kids with horses, goats, chickens, gardening, and more.

If you feel a connection with our mission to serve those in need, desire to contribute to building responsible adults, want to be a part of our vision, and are looking for a way to give back to your community, we would love to talk to you.

Job Summary:

Provide classroom leadership, curriculum development, and line-of-sight supervision to severely emotionally disturbed youth. Provide client crisis and behavior interventions, participate in activities with clients. Responsible for health and safety of clients.

As a Program Lead, your job duties will include:

· Maintain confidentiality in compliance with Health and Human Services, Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act (HIPAA) and meet requirements of all other county and State Agencies

 · Give classroom instruction, guidance, and implementation of written lesson plans, vocational services, and documenting information.

· Verbal and written documentation on all matters, including contacting and speaking directly to a supervisor on all policy and safety matters.

· Provide supervision to clients. Implementation of trained verbal and physical crisis interventions

· Direct care of clients participating in activities adhering to Residential Program policies and procedures

· Demonstrate professional boundaries through appropriate behavior, conversations, language, humor, tone of voice, and body language, with a positive attitude and role model for the client.

· Uses opportunities as “teachable moments” or windows of opportunities to teach life skills, self-awareness, and other concepts.

· Adhere to all safety policies and maintain a safe environment.

· Maintain worksite safety; look for, document, and report any safety breaches, property damage, needed repairs, and safety concerns to supervisory personnel.

· Responsible for the security of all personal effects. All keys are to remain with the employee and never made available or given to a client. 

· Ensure all doors, cabinets, and drawers, as well as company and personal vehicles, are locked at all times. 

· Follow daily schedule and all other duties as assigned.

Requirements

· Work experience with youth in a teaching setting.

· Able to work in a team structure, provide leadership, and demonstrate professionalism.

· Effective, professional written and verbal communication skills.

· Basic computer operation knowledge to prepare documentation.

· Excellent written and verbal communication, able to communicate information in a clear and concise manner.

· Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.

· Sound decision-making ability.

· Ability to successfully work with the special needs of children in care.

· Must be at least 21 years old.

Education and Experience:

· Earned 72 quarter credits or 48 semester credits at the 100 level or higher at an accredited college or university, OR

· Completed an apprenticeship as a para-educator in a program registered with the Washington State Apprenticeship and Training Council.

· And at least a high school diploma or equivalent and one year of experience working directly with children or two years of social service education may be substituted for the required experience.

Benefits offered to PART-TIME employees include:

• Employee Assistance and Discount Programs
• 403b retirement plan
• Reduced rate MUV Fitness gym membership

Pay: $19.00-$23.00 per hour, depending on education and experience

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

 Morning Star Boys’ Ranch and Morning Star Community Services provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.