Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, Masters degree preferred
• Knowledge of behavior interventions
• Applied behavior Analysis Certification Required

Supervises:

• None

Essential Job Functions:

Monitors, coordinates and links services and interventions for students. Provides leadership to the PRC 29 team, training, interventions and direct services to identified PRC 29 students, staff working with students and to other service providers. The minimal provision of service is 2 direct contacts (face to face) per month with PRC 29 students. Note: A direct contact consists of the Behavior Specialist/Liaison providing an evidence/research-based intervention to address the behavioral needs of the student. Additional contacts can be with the student and/or any staff directly involved with the student.

Monitors Services and Interventions:

• Ensures PRC 29 students’ IEP dates are compliant
• Ensures data from FBAs are used to develop BIPs
• Ensures BIPs are measurable and compliant
• Ensures attendance/suspension records are accurate
• Ensures interventions provided by other PRC 29 staff are evidence/research-based
• Provides staff with data collection tools
• Maintains and ensures PRC 29 daily student contact and intervention reports are completed (all staff working with PRC 29 students)
• Reviews the PRC 29 Referral Process with Behavioral Support team and school staff
• Ensures PRC 29 students transition in and out of the program with identified supports
• Submits PRC 29 Monthly Attendance/Suspension Reports, Mid-Year Reports and End- of-Year Reports
• Provides classroom and school-wide environmental observations of the student
• Attends PRC 29 student’s IEP meetings
• Monitors academic and attendance performance

Coordinates Services and Interventions:

• Communicates with principals, teachers, relevant staff and community partners
• Facilitates meetings (PRC 29 staff; school based personnel, parents and community agencies pertaining to PRC 29 students)
• Ensures the coordination of 30 day meetings to review data and dates for students in alternative settings (homebound, day treatments, abbreviated days)
• Implements Social Skills Programs:
• Assists with transition planning (grade level and school transitions, Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) and IEP Transition Plans
• Ensures staffing/case management of PRC 29 students
• Evaluates student and family needs
• Provides referrals to community services within a school
• Checks with medication management staff

Link Services and Interventions:

• Networks and collaborates with community agencies to ensure that PRC 29 students receive wrap around services
• Collaborates with school staff regarding new or more intense interventions.
• Attends community agency meetings
• Braids LEA initiatives
• Establishes wrap around Community Service Providers (e.g., Mental Health, DSS, Lawyers, Judges, Law Enforcement, Faith Based, etc.)
• Collaborates regarding PRC 29 student’s Care Review
• Assists families with establishing contact with providers
• Assists with home visits, as appropriate

Provides Training and Support to Staff and Outside Providers:

• CPI-Crisis Nonviolent Crisis Intervention
• FBA/BIP
• Environmental
• Student Success Team
• Behavioral Support Team Meetings
• Mental Health
• Character Education
• In-service for Behavior Support Personnel
• Classroom Intervention
• Behavioral/Classroom Management
• PBIS Collaboration with students with disabilities
• Social Skills Training
• Modeling Strategies and Interventions
• Parent Education
• Professional Learning Communities/Team
• Problem Solving
• Mental Health diagnosis (i.e., ADHD, ODD, Bipolar)
• Knowledge of the effects of medication

Physical and Cognitive Requirements:

The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the Behavior Specialist/Liaison job classification within the Exceptional Children Program of Hoke County Schools. Work in this classification is considered light physical work requiring the exertion of up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.

Must be able to:

• Prepare, read and comprehend a variety of job related forms, reports, spreadsheets, maps, plans, records, documentation and correspondence in all languages required by the job
• Understand and conform to all rules of punctuation, grammar, diction and style
• Speak to individuals or groups of people with poise, voice control and confidence
• Respond adequately to inquiries or complaints
• Write using standard convention in all languages required by the job
• Apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagrammatic form
• Communicate effectively and efficiently, both orally and in writing
• Use/interpret job related terminology, mathematical formulas and functions effectively and efficiently
• Deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions
• Perform under stress, deal with persons acting under stress and adapt when confronted with emergency situations
• Be sensitive to cultural differences among individuals and groups of persons
• Operate a motor vehicle
• Operate/use a variety of automated office machines and other job specific office equipment

DISCLAIMER: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the position. All employees may have other duties assigned at any time.