Elementary Day Program Supervisor

Description

Summary of position: Work as part of the leadership team for a 766-approved special education school serving day and residential students with significant emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges. Collaborate with an Educational Coordinator to oversee between two and five classrooms ensuring the academic and social/emotional needs of students are being met. Directly supervise school staff (special education support staff). Provide proactive support as well as daily crisis intervention when needed. Manage and support residential students during vacation days/weeks, including but not limited to running campus, planning engaging student-focused activities, supporting off-grounds trips, and coordinating staffing support. Committed to a child-centered, family focused, culturally competent care and strengths-based treatment.     

Education and Licensure 

Required: Bachelor’s degree; Valid US Driver’s License and ability to transport  

children into the community 

Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in related field  

Experience 

Required: At least one year of prior experience working with children with complex  

social, emotional, and behavioral challenges  

Preferred: Supervisor experience in a therapeutic setting. 

Abilities 

Required mental abilities: Ability to be flexible and work collaboratively.  Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and safely. Ability to work in a stressful and fast paced environment. Must understand child development and the impact of emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Must understand issues of confidentiality. Must be receptive to supervision and professional development.   

Required physical abilities: Ability to work and stand for extended period of time. Job may require bending, stooping, stretching, and lifting. Job requires the ability to perform therapeutic physical intervention as needed. 

Essential functions: 

1. Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to further the emotional, behavioral, and educational development of children. 
2. Apply Walker’s model of childcare, including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), which requires physical restraint when necessary, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, cooperative group games, and behavioral support. 
3. Implement treatment protocol and appropriate therapeutic strategies established in children’s treatment plans, IEPs, and individual support plans. 
4. Meet children’s physical needs and provide a safe and therapeutic environment for children.   
5. Participate fully in the administrative functions of teaching and childcare, including attending and participating in required meetings, completing assigned report writing tasks in a timely manner, and actively communicating with families and members of the students’ multidisciplinary team and ensuring school logs and points are completed by classrooms.  
6. Actively participate in supervision and professional development opportunities offered at Walker.   
7. Complete the DESE spreadsheet for restraint submission. 
8. Supervise school vacation periods, including managing the daily scheduling, ensuring therapeutic recreational programming occurs, working with day or residential coordinator to ensure all staffing needs are met during vacation weeks and school vacation days. 
9. Directly manage the performance of assigned milieu staff, including individual and group supervision and staff evaluations. 
10. Provide family contact as needed. 
11. Provided proactive support and daily crisis intervention.  
12. Work with day school leadership team to ensure smooth running of classrooms and milieu during school program by placing self proactively in classrooms and providing coaching/observations to classroom teams.  
13. Oversee the supervision of a wake-up team on the residence and assure that medications are administered, routines are completed, and students arrive to school on time by providing consistent (e.g., 1x week) observation/modeling on the residential houses.  
14. Lead field trips during the summer session and during the traditional school year, assuring that a plan is in place, all needed supplies are accounted for (e.g., lunch, directions), and medication is administered as appropriate.   
15. Attend Treatment Update meetings, multi-disciplinary team meetings, and other assigned meetings for students in the supervised classrooms. Provide any necessary reports for meetings.  
16. Directly supervise children and oversee milieu both in school and during vacation weeks as well as during residential wakeups as assigned.   
17. Work with day leadership, clinical, and residential teams to ensure integration and smooth operation of the school. 
18. Work with other supervisors to ensure that the physical appearance of the school building reflects the values and programming of the school. 
19. Work in close cooperation with the management team to ensure alignment and consistency in treatment and programming.  
20. Participate in hiring, onboarding, and ongoing professional development of special education support staff. 
21. Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures. 
22. All other duties as assigned. 

Supervision to be received: Directly responsible to and supervised by the Walker School Milieu Manager 

Supervision to be exercised: Up to eight special education support staff and oversight of three to four classroom teams, in conjunction with an educational coordinator 

Qualifications

Qualifications: Successful candidates will have previous supervisory experience working in a similar setting.

Walker is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based upon an individual’s race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, national guard or reserve unit obligations, participation in discrimination complaint-related activities, or membership in any category protected by federal or state law.