Position Type :
Student Support Services
Date Posted : 12 / 9 / 2024
Location :
South East Education Cooperative
Date Available : 01 / 02 / 2025
Closing Date : Until Filled
District :
South East Education Cooperative Job title : Behavior Support Specialist for Regional Behavior Program
Location : Kindred
Date available : January
Accountable to : Special Education Director
Office hours : follow district calendar and contract day
Duration : 9-month position
Wage : $19 / hr - $22 / hr depending on experience
Behavior support specialist will be teaching in a self-contained regional special education room at Kindred Public Schools. The regional self-contained classroom is a collaborative effort with the Rural Cass Special Education Unit and the South Valley Special Education Unit to support students with unique behaviors. This position will provide direct academic instruction and work collaboratively with other professionals to support these students' behavioral needs.
Supporting students' academic and behavioral needs
- Provides supports for students in a special education setting for students with challenging behavior
- Work as a member of a team to help implement behavior plans based on functional behavior assessments
- Support positive academic and behavior outcomes for students
- Assists in documenting student progress based on papers submitted, work output and observation, based on determined goals, objectives and directions.
- Maintains physical environment of classroom
- Builds and maintains ongoing relationship with students.
Essential Skills, Experience and Expertise :
Experience : Prefer work experience with students with unique behaviors but not required.Interpersonal and Communication Skills : Requires excellent customer service and interpersonal communication skills. Handles last minute pressure and keeps calm when faced with competing demands and priorities.Confidentially : Requires proper protection, handling, storage and disposal of confidential and personally identifiable information (PII).Math Skills : Adept at addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, fractions and basic descriptive statistics.Driver's License : Required.Physical Demands and Work Environment :
Ability to work under pressure and deadlines while maintaining professional demeanor.Sit / Stand / Walk / Stoop : Up to 8-10 hours a day for each activity individually or combined with sitting required for the majority of the time.Climb / Pull / Lift : Up to 8-10 hours a day for each activity individually or combined.Move and lift to 50 pounds with assistance. A 10-ream box of copy paper = 50 pounds. Able to move and lift up to 20 pounds on own and may require hearing protection when using certain equipment or entering certain areas.Hazardous Conditions or Chemicals Exposure : Exposure to small quantities of hazardous chemicals found in office supplies such as toner, glues, etc.Interaction levels with others : Required high levels of interactions with others.