Behavior Interventionist-High School-2024-2025 School Year-Support Services

POSITION SUMMARY : Assist in supporting positive behavioral change in students by developing interventions and behavior plans for the purpose of promoting equitable student achievement.

Assists in helping school officials determine best practices and assists with supporting school needs.

This position is paid for 100% by Comprehensive grant funds. Should funds no longer be available, or the school-wide plan changes, the position may be eliminated to meet the needs of the school.

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB :

Essential Functions

• Facilitates the provision of holistic, student-centered behavioral interventions for students
• Provides ongoing consultation and support for school administrators, counselors, social workers, and teaching personnel to meet the needs of individual students and school programs.
• Provides evidence based assessment, intervention, consultation, and referral services for students / families with a variety of behavioral, environmental, and social-emotional
• Works cooperatively as an integral part of the school’s social emotional support team with the goal of improving student academic success and increasing team e?ciency.
• Formulates and facilitates the implementation of school-wide and individual positive behavioral intervention supports and plans through the use of appropriate interventions and available community resources.
• Facilitates student leadership activities, including peer mentoring programming.
• Engages in ongoing quality improvement strategies to assist in the implementation of ongoing behavioral and social-emotional integration strategies.
• Serves as a liaison between East High School and the Opportunity Center (alternative education program) and supports students transitioning between schools
• Completes, in a timely manner, all required
• Engages in conducting observations and developing aligned behavior support plans.
• Maintains working knowledge of and collaborates with district and community agencies and resources.
• Communicates with school, teachers and parents regarding behavior needs of
• Provides equity and access for all

POSITION QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS :

Skills and Abilities : These skills may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position.

• Must have an understanding of behavioral characteristics as it relates to
• Has excellent communication skills, both written and
• Able to stay grounded in emotionally charged
• Has ability to create written correspondence with all stakeholders and to be able to collect, analyze, and present
• Maintains appropriate records and
• Create training presentations and

Education :

• Must have high school teaching or counseling certification, or social work degree
• Successful experience working with students with behavioral regulation needs

Knowledge of / Experience with :

• Skilled in classroom management
• Skilled in systems thinking and analyzing
• Skilled communicator

Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids : These may be representative but not all inclusive of those commonly associated with this position :

Personal computer and related software, typewriter, calculator, fax machine, photocopier.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position.

Employees may be required to follow other job-related instructions and to perform other job-related duties as requested, subject to all applicable state and federal laws.

Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modi?cation in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.

Commonly associated" is not intended to mean always or only. There are di?erent experiences that suggest other ways or circumstances where reasonable changes or accommodations are appropriate.

All activities, demands, conditions and requirements are linked to Essential Job Functions unless marked with an asterisk which denotes linkage only to marginal function(s).

Physical / Visual Activities or Demands : Physical / visual activities or demands that are commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.

• Sitting, walking, standing, talking, hearing, stooping or crouching to access ?le
• Normal mental attention with clarity of vision at 20 inches or less as well as 20 feet or more required.
• Nominal physical e?ort required ranging from moving very light (1 to 5 items by hand to rarely moving light to average (5 to 60 boxes of paper and other supplies with assistance.

Environmental / Atmospheric Conditions : Environmental and atmospheric conditions commonly associated with the performance of the functions of this job.

Normal conditions.