Behavior Specialist
Position Type:
Student Support Services/Behavior Specialist
Date Posted:
4/3/2024
Location:
Towns County Central Office
Date Available:
07/01/2024
Position/Title:
Behavior Specialist
Reports to:
Principals
Qualifications:
Position
Summary:
Provides interventions to targeted students to increase responsible behavior and reduce negative behavior including but not limited to small group and one-on-one interventions. Communicates with student's parents, other district employees, and other school personnel to build and implement a strong support mechanism for the student. Documents, maintains, analyzes and discusses data with the student, parents, and others to determine impact of the interventions.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Must possess instructional knowledge of crisis intervention strategies.
Essential Duties:
Student Support Services/Behavior Specialist
Date Posted:
4/3/2024
Location:
Towns County Central Office
Date Available:
07/01/2024
Position/Title:
Behavior Specialist
Reports to:
Principals
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree or higher in Education, Counseling, Social Work, Psychology, Sociology or a related field
- Eligibility for a GaPSC certification in education, Service Fields, or Educational Leadership
- At least 5 years experience working with children who are at-risk or in an at-risk or alternative setting
Position
Summary:
Provides interventions to targeted students to increase responsible behavior and reduce negative behavior including but not limited to small group and one-on-one interventions. Communicates with student's parents, other district employees, and other school personnel to build and implement a strong support mechanism for the student. Documents, maintains, analyzes and discusses data with the student, parents, and others to determine impact of the interventions.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Must possess instructional knowledge of crisis intervention strategies.
- Ability to apply a gradually progressive system of verbal and non-verbal strategies to effectively deescalate potentially dangerous situations.
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of various methods of data collection and subsequent analysis and interpretation for data to drive appropriate behavioral interventions.
- Must be able to maintain frequent, meaningful parental communication and develop proactive partnerships between the student/parent and school district to support academic achievement and pro-social behaviors.
- Must serve as a positive role model for students and model professional and ethical standards.
- Ability to work in a collegial and collaborative manner with peers, school personnel and the school community to promote and support the mission and goals of the school division and abide by all school division policies and procedures.
- Ability to develop and present ideas effectively, orally and in written form.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with school administrators and other stakeholders.
- Ability to analyze data.
- Effective listening.
- Facilitating meetings.
- Monitor activities.
- Planning.
- Problem solving.
- Record keeping.
- Provide staff training.
- Ability to use hands to grasp, and manipulate small objects; manipulate fingers, twist and bend at wrist and elbow; extend arms to reach outward and upward; use hands and arms to lift objects; turn, raise, and lower head.
- Ability to lift, push, pull and/or carry up to 25 pounds on a frequent basis. Incumbent may be required to physically restrain parties involved in a conflict.
- Ability to read, write, understand, interpret and apply information at a moderately complex level essential for successful job performance; math skills at a high school proficiency level; judgment and the ability to process information quickly; learn quickly and follow verbal procedures and standards; give verbal instruction; rank tasks in order of importance; copy, compare, compile and coordinate information and records. Understand how to manage stress.
Essential Duties:
- Assists in developing interventions, functional behavior assessments and behavior plans for the purpose of providing a safe and effective educational environment for students with challenging behaviors.
- Provides social skills instruction to students utilizing research based.
- Assists in developing procedures and training materials for staff involved with students with challenging behaviors for the purpose of enhancing programs for students and ensuring that program operations are in compliance with established guidelines.
- Conducts workshops, training, in-service presentations, etc. in classroom management techniques and other topics for the purpose of developing skills and establishing effective relationships with behaviorally or emotionally disturbed students.
- Completes all reporting requirements as mandated by the district, state, federal, and educational agencies (i.e. restraint and seclusion, assessments, behavioral data).
- Collects and summarizes behavioral data.
- Assists with student crisis intervention.
- Required to have prompt, regular attendance in-person and be available to work on-site, in-person during regular business hours and as needed.
- Performs other duties as assigned by principal, immediate supervisor and district-level administration.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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