PBDTx SPED Consultant

*Panhandle Beginnings works with grade 3rd - 8th grade

Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment Special Education Consultant

Job Title:  Panhandle Beginnings Day Treatment (PBDTx) Special Education Consultant

Department:  Alternative Education Department

Education Level and Certification:  Bachelor's degree with Special Education Endorsement required. Must at all times during employment possess a Nebraska Teaching Certificate with such endorsements as required by NDE Rule 10 and all other certification and training as required or assigned.

Reports To:  Director Alternative Education and Principal

Terms of Employment:  185-190 days / Schedule 4

Performance Responsibilities and Job Tasks

This is a special education/behavioral health support position within ESU 13 Day Treatment Program. This position will work in close collaboration with the Day treatment program staff, identified youth home school district staff and existing ESU 13 special education and mental health supports to comprehensively serve schools and families within the Nebraska Panhandle.

1. Help create evidence-based plans to re-integrate student into their home district milieu
2. Communicate and consult with school districts, teachers and administrators as well as day treatment staff to gain information regarding student, school or district needs before, during and after the reintegration process.
3. Maintain case files and reports in accordance with the day treatment protocol and aligned with HIPPA privacy act.
4. Perform intake observations and participate as a member of the intake team.
5. Maintain contact with student, family and home schools through the end of transition year via phone, text, email and in-person visits as deemed appropriate.
6. Provide training to staff and track progress of intervention.
7. Provide research-based specialized instruction to address instructional goals and objectives contained within each student’s IEP
8. Develop a working knowledge of students on caseload as it pertains to providing special education services.
9. Conduct formal and informal diagnostic observations and evaluations and progress monitoring.
10. Collaborate and consult with fellow educational professionals and community service providers regarding needs of students and programs (e.g. Vocational Rehabilitation, social services, public health, etc.)
11. Attend regularly scheduled and other announced special education meetings and training as requested.
12. Must be able to fulfill restraint training procedures.
13. Fill in as Teacher in classrooms as needed.
14. Maintains the emotional climate of the classroom so that it is warm, positive, and supportive.
15. Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
16. Participates in in-service training and staff development as requested.
17. Provides a positive image of ESU #13.

Working Conditions

1.  Inside heated and air-conditioned classroom.

2.  Outside for activities with students and student supervision.  

3.  Exposure to incidents of aggression when working with students with behavioral impairments.

FLSA Status:  Exempt.

Professional exemption:  The employee has a primary duty of performing work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study or has a primary duty of teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and is employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher.  

Essential Functions:  The essential functions of the Teacher position include: (1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job; (2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and (3) the ability to perform the following identified physical requirements.

*It is the policy of ESU 13 to not discriminate on the basis of sex, disability, race, color, religion, veteran status, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, or other protected status in its educational programs, admission policies, employment policies or other administered programs.  Persons requiring accommodations to apply and/or be considered for positions are asked to make their request to the ESU 13 Administrator