Intervention Design Specialist II

Job Title: Intervention Design Specialist II

Terms of Employment: 185 Days

Pay Grade: 120

Job Summary:

The purpose of this job is to serve as a collaborating member of the Mental Health Support Team by providing direct and indirect support/targeted interventions for individual students.

Essential Duties

• Supports the design, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of comprehensive evidence-based intervention programs for the emotional and behavioral support program of individual students.
• Assists the educational delivery team in identifying the unmet relational and functional needs of the student to address ineffective coping behaviors and develop adaptive social, emotional, and academic competencies.
• Engages in job duties with an awareness of trauma-informed practices and methods to build resilience in the school setting.
• Assists teachers and other classroom staff in monitoring individual student behavior for the purpose of increasing knowledge of staff and meeting the emotional and functional needs of the student.
• Models and supports the in-class implementation of behavioral strategies for the purpose of assisting the student in strengthening coping mechanisms and developing identified skills, reducing disruptive or dangerous behaviors and increasing academic learn
• Collaborates with appropriate Mental Health Support Team members to design, implement, and, when necessary, make minor on-site modifications to behavioral interventions and support plans.
• Supports the supervision of students to ensure a safe, non-threatening, nurturing environment where students can participate and thrive in alternative learning environments. Establish behavioral and safety plans for target learners to support preventative and positive alternatives to suspension.
• Engages parents in understanding the intervention plan and empowers parents by providing information on how families may incorporate successful techniques within the home setting (as needed).
• Collects behavioral data for the purpose of assisting in the development and delivery of appropriate intervention programs and assesses the ability to fade to naturalistic supports.
• Maintains records related to the development and implementation of a student''s intervention program for the purposes of fidelity and outcome monitoring.
• Participates in or facilitates team meetings with identified staff and parents for the purposes of identifying unmet emotional and functional needs, developing response plans, and establishing a plan for reporting progress.
• Engages with site-based staff when necessary for any crisis intervention responses and any required documentation.
• Performs related work as required.

Minimum Education and Experience Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in child development, education, mental health, or social services and/or two (2) years of educational or child-development, mental health, or social service-related experience.

Must possess and maintain a valid state driver's license.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; exhibit manual dexterity to dial a telephone, to enter data into a computer, and to perform required tasks; see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear and understand speech at normal levels, speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly; physical agility to lift 25 to 50 pounds; to bend, to stoop, to sit on the floor, to climb stairs, to walk and to reach overhead, adeptness and speed in the use of the fingers, hands, or limbs on a repetitive operation of mechanical or electronic office or shop machines or tools within moderate tolerances or limits of accuracy.

Unavoidable Hazards (Work Environment)

None.

Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance

Bedford County Schools is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ADA requires Bedford County Schools to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are encouraged to discuss ADA accommodations with management.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor. Bedford County Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.