Youth Intervention Specialist Job Code # 003015
Helps create an environment that promotes student learning and development through programming and support for student behavior.
Primary Responsibilities: Positive Behavior Support
• Implement and monitor Positive Behavior Intervention Support Program
• Create Advisory Curriculum in conjunction with administration around Social and Emotional Learning
• Deliver staff development around the PBIS/SEL programs
• Implement and monitor the peer mediation council
• Create staff/student mentoring initiative for at-risk students
• De-escalate student incidents and behavior
• Maintain communication with parents, teachers, and administration
• Refer students to administration or student support as needed
• Ensure that attendance is entered daily into Impact.
• Ensure that all reporting timelines and deadlines are met.
• Monitor student attendance and track absences
• Daily phone calls to parents and students when absent
• Home visits to chronically absent students
• Design and implement attendance incentives
• Serve on the attendance task force
• Assist with the development of Individual Student Plans
Secondary Responsibilities: Discipline
• Monitor student behavior and provide consequences in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct in conjunction with the Assistant Principal
• Manage student entrance every morning
• Conduct hall sweeps and classroom walk-throughs to promote positive behavior
• Monitor the cafeteria during lunch and events
• Run the In-School Suspension Room as needed
• Conduct afterschool and Saturday detention as needed
Requirements:
College Degree in Public Administration, Education, or Human Services Field
Previous experience in a school setting/or working with adolescents
Ability to work after school and weekend hours
Experience with Guided Discipline and PBIS
Case Management Experience a plus
Ability to interface with teachers and find creative solutions to challenging problems