Behavioral/Academic Assistant (RMS)

Riverside Middle School currently has an opening for a Behavioral/Academic Assistant. (Start Date: As soon as possible.) The employee will work eight (8) hours per day for a total of 40 hours per week. See the job description below for more information.

The employee will be required to obtain and maintain a license to drive a school bus and to drive when needed to "efficiently and effectively operate the school transportation system." (Board Policy 4701) Bus driving duty is considered an essential function of this position.

GRADE: Grade 56 of the State Salary Scale for Classified Employees

FLSA: Non-Exempt

REPORTS TO: Principal/Student Services Director

SUPERVISES: None

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 10 months

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Associate's Degree or above.
• Experience working with students in a school setting.
• Technology proficiency.
• Strong moral character.
• Current and valid Driver's License.

NATURE OF WORK: An employee in this position helps to facilitate the Youth Intervention Program at the middle school level. This program offers alternative services to the most at-risk youth to help reduce the number of out-of-school suspensions and subsequent juvenile petitions. The program will offer skills sessions to juveniles at risk of out-of-school suspension for behaviors that may lead to a juvenile petition. The program will incorporate a behavior modification curriculum that provides cognitive strategies for skills attainment.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. This list is meant to be representative, not exhaustive. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is required to follow all board policies and procedures and to comply with the instructions and/or directives from his/her supervisor(s).

• Maintains contact and provides updates on academic and behavior performance of student(s) in the program to the Student Services Department of Martin County Schools.
• Maintains contact and provides updates on academic and behavior performance of student(s) in the program to school administration.
• Monitors student progress with regular classroom teachers.
• Monitors and checks on student progress with parent or guardian.
• Supervises students during the school day.
• Provides character curriculum.
• Assists and monitors students with technology-related work
• Maintains contact with juvenile services and provides feedback monthly or more often, as necessary.
• Develops and maintains working relationships with parents or legal guardians.
• Drives a school bus when needed to efficiently and effectively operate the school transportation system.
• Performs other related work as required.

PHYSICAL AND COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS: The major physical and cognitive requirements listed below are applicable to the Behavioral/Academic Assistant job classification within Martin 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.

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children with special needs, etc.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; and to utilize decimals and percentages.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of office machines, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/ foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works indoors. The noise level in the work environment is usually minimal. The work is performed in the school.