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Position: Behavior Specialist
Position Purpose: Responsible for identifying student strengths and addressing individual and environmental obstacles to learning.
Essential Job Functions:
Develop a prescriptive intervention for referred and/or identifies students needing behavioral support.
Consult and collaborate with other school personnel to gather and give information
Handle student discipline and process referrals
Assists with classroom behavioral management to minimize disruptions, ensure a safe and orderly classroom, and ensure students are on task.
Assists students in non-instructional areas, such as supervising the student lunch programs, bus duty, playground duty, corridor, study hall, and other related non-instructional areas.
Accompanies students on field trips for the purpose of assisting with supervision.
Assists teacher with parent contact as requested to foster effective and participatory parent involvement in student education..
Participates in IEP process and serves as resource for the student personnel evaluation team as needed.
Assist students with physical or mental disabilities with activities of daily living for the purpose of maximizing their ability to participate in school or learning activities.
Follows all applicable safety rules, procedures and regulations governing the proper manner of assistance for all students, including those with disabilities or other special needs.
Perform casework service with individual students.
Assist students directly toward adjustment to school.
Regular, reliable and punctual attendance
Additional Duties:
• Assist guidance, pupil services staff or building administration, as needed. • Perform any other related duties as assigned. • Evening events
Note: The above description is illustrative of tasks and responsibilities. It is not meant to be all inclusive of every task or responsibility
Equipment: Use standard office equipment, such as personal computers and copiers.
Travel Requirements: Travel between schools, or between schools and central offices, may be required for certain positions.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Ability to understand, apply and use personal computers and software applications (e.g., Word, Excel).
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 contacted in the course of work.
Ability to report work orally or in writing to supervisor as required.
Effective writing and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work in an economically, culturally and racially diverse environment.
Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards:
Ada Requirements: The physical demands, work environment factors, and mental functions described are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Physical 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. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust/focus.
Work Environment: The noise level in the work environment is usually loud to moderate.
Mental Functions: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to compare, analyze, communicate both orally and in writing, copy, coordinate, instruct, compute, synthesize, evaluate, use interpersonal skills, compile and negotiate.
Qualifications:
Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required.
Teaching certificate or counseling degree preferred.
Valid Michigan teacher’s certificate preferred.
Experience working with At-Risk learners.
An understanding of working with standards.
Able to develop and maintain constructive relationships with staff, students, and Administration.
Ability to support general education instructional staff
FLSA Status: Non-exempt
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Kentwood Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, genetic information, or any other protected status in its employment decisions or the provision of services.
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