Job Description
Position Title: Behavior Technician
Under the supervision of the Principal and the Assistant Principal, the Behavior Technician manages and intervenes with students who are demonstrating unacceptable behavior within the school setting. Promotes a positive learning environment for all students. Maintains database and generates regular reports on behavioral interventions and outcomes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Follows prescribed behavioral intervention plans (BIPs) for students.
Utilizes programs behavioral management system and is ready to respond to and manage varying levels of maladaptive student behavior, mild escalation, crisis stages. Interventions may include but are not limited to the following: • Redirecting • Restating expectations • Collaborative problem solving • Planned ignoring • Therapeutic walk or cool-down time • Securing the environment • Separating students • Escort or protective hold
Supervises individuals or small groups of students who cannot be maintained within the classroom and have been placed in alternative learning settings within the school program due to their disruptive, non-compliant, or high-risk behaviors.
Assists students with completing assigned class work and make-up work.
Monitors students during meal times, class changes in hallways, and outside the building as needed.
Performs routine security checks of students upon arrival at school or upon students return to program after AWOL from building.
Collects and enters into computer daily behavioral data for each student served.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
High school diploma required. Bachelors degree preferred. Requires knowledge of and experience using effective behavior intervention and management strategies with significantly emotionally disturbed adolescents. Must have the ability to perform duties in a calm, non-threatening manner with a diverse population of clients and fellow workers.
Incentives may be offered to employees who obtain and maintain a CT DMV public service license once employed. Other job-related certifications required include:
• Safety Care Training • CPR • First Aid
Working Conditions
Requires a large amount of walking to monitor students. Occasionally requires rigorous physical effort to deal with escorting, utilizing protective holds with aggressive, emotionally disturbed students up to 200lbs according to approved techniques.
These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed rather than give an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities.
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JOB ID: 13831 CREC External Job Opportunities | Careers | Hartford, Connecticut
| Location | Hartford, CT |