Description

Foundation for Blind Children is currently seeking qualified applicants for a full time Orientation & Mobility Specialist position! This position will be based at our Central Campus in Phoenix as part of our Adult Transition Services Department. We offer a full benefits package, paid time off, paid holidays, retirement plan, a 35 hour work week, and more! Apply today to join our team and make a difference in your community. 

Foundation for Blind Children (FBC) is a high profile, nationally recognized non-profit in Phoenix, Arizona. Celebrating our 70^th Anniversary, FBC serves over 2,000 blind and visually impaired students of ALL ages, from birth to currently 102 years old on three Valley campuses. Our preschool for blind children and braille library are the largest in the country. A well-established and growing non-profit, FBC leads the blind community both locally and nationally with new and innovative teaching methods, technology and outcomes. Our workplace culture consistently ranks in the top 10% of non-profits in the country with 95% of our team recommending FBC as a great place to work. The vision of the Foundation for Blind Children is a world where vision loss is a diagnosis, not a disability.

The role of the Classroom Special Education Teacher is to manage the day-to-day routine of a classroom, working with students who are blind or visually impaired in a private day setting. The Classroom Special Education Teacher adapts and modifies curriculum for students with a wide range of learning, mental, emotional, and physical disabilities. Teaching all academic skills, such as literacy, mathematics and science along with communication techniques, to students with severe disabilities. The Classroom Special Education Teacher will collaborate with the Teacher of the Visually Impaired and the related service team to create meaningful activities for all students.

Duties include:

• Collaborates with the Teacher of the Visually Impaired to adapt lessons
• Maintains all aspects and provisions of confidentiality related to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
• Provides case management services for students on individual education plans (IEP) including all requirements related to the IEP and compliance of federal, state and district regulations/requirements
• Provides direct instruction to students as specified in the individual education plans
• Maintains accurate and complete data records as required
• Provides coaching and training to classroom staff based on students' individual education plans
• Supervises and evaluates classroom Paraprofessionals
• Maintains on-going communication (written and verbal) with parents/guardians
• Provides a safe learning environment with an effective classroom management plan
• Establishes and maintains good rapport with students, employees, community members and vendors
• Maintains a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality
• Collaborates with related service providers
• Coordinates and monitors each student’s daily, routine medical needs including monitoring overall health, monitoring and documenting seizure activity, and provide direction and supervision of para-educators’ attention to these needs
• Performs other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (Master’s degree preferred) from accredited college or university in Special Education required
• Current Arizona Special Education Teaching Certificate required
• CPR/First Aid/AED
• Experience with PECS System and Structured Teaching (preferred)
• Experience in teaching a self-contained classroom
• Basic computer skills, knowledge of IEP management systems
• Article 9
• Valid Arizona Driver’s License
• IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card issued by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, or ability to attain a Clearance Card.

Physical requirements: 

• Ability to move body in many ways in order to interact with and position students such as: stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, pushing and pulling consistently throughout the day and on a daily basis
• Required to routinely lift a minimum of 25 pounds and occasionally up to 50 pounds