Direct Support Professional Supervisor - Education (4678)
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Description
Direct Support Professional Supervisor - Education
- Supervises Paraeducator I, and Paraeducator II and under the direction of the Education Director oversees the operation of the campus during the education hours
Pay: $24.48/hr
Benefits for Full-time employees:
- Health Insurance: Offered through Blue Cross Blue Shield, with generous company contribution.
- Enhanced Retirement Plan: 25% - 33% Employer match based on tenure.
- Student Loan Assistance: Consolidation, counseling, & limited employer contribution!
- Discounted Tuition with College & University Partnerships!
- Tuition Assistance: Reimbursed or prepaid college coursework!
- Home Mortgage Initiative: Favorable down payment (3-5%), reduced closing costs co-paid by Seven Hills!
Work-Life Balance:
- Generous Accrued Paid Vacation: 3 weeks in your first year!
- Vacation Cash-Out Option
- 3 Paid Personal Days
- 11 Paid Holidays
- Accrued Paid Sick Time
Benefits for Part-time Employees:
- Accrued Paid Sick Time
- Enhanced Retirement Plan: 25% - 33% Employer match (Minimum of 20 worked hours per week)
- Student Loan Assistance: Consolidation and free debt counseling!
- Personal PTO - (Minimum 20 hour regular part-time schedule - does not apply to per diem)
Responsibilities
- Standards of Care · Ensures Crotched Mountain School standards of care are achieved consistently by all education staff. · Ensures a safe and therapeutic milieu is provided at all times · Evaluates and communicates individual student needs to appropriate program staff. · Ensures that all staff model and demonstrate care giver qualities that treat all students with dignity and respect. · Promotes staff interventions that support the Crotched Mountain School’s Safety Care approach. · During non-school days; facilitates student visits and treats family and visitors with dignity and respect. · Prevents interactions that are not sanctioned within the rules, practices, and policies of Crotched Mountain School. · Prevents actions and disparaging comments that may be considered horseplay, roughhousing, and/or derogatory comments and demeaning gestures. · Monitors staff-to-student interactions, including professional boundaries, and responds to any concerns according to program procedures. · Acts as a role model and reinforces pro-social behaviors with students and staff.
- Staffing and Schedule: · Maintains assigned master schedule on When to Work and reports to Education Director on the effectiveness of daily staff configuration. · Assists as needed with filling shift vacancies to provide mandatory ratio. · Monitors direct care staff attendance for call out patterns and other attendance problems. · Tracks use of overtime / extra time for maximum safety and efficiency. · Assists with interviews of direct care candidates and makes hiring recommendations to Education Director. · Assists with ensuring appropriate personnel paperwork for the interview is complete and forwarded to the Human Resources Director.
- Tracking Data and Documentation: · Documents direct care staff attendance and use of overtime. · Oversees documentation and circulation of progressive discipline, performance evaluations and other staff concerns for assigned staff. · Ensures required daily paperwork and documentation is completed by appropriate staff. · Calculates data as required for various studies, surveys, and/or research as part of team or campus needs. · Completes required supervisory paperwork in an accurate and timely manner. · Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift.
- Policy and Procedure: · Maintains knowledge of all Crotched Mountain School policies and procedures including updates and amendments. · Ensures that all Crotched Mountain School policies and procedures are followed by staff under their direct supervision. · Ensures that all student programs are followed and documented appropriately. · Responds to students’ behavior in accordance with Crotched Mountain School's behavior management policy and the principles of Safety Care.
- Staff Supervision: · Provides formal supervision to assigned Para I, and Para II in accordance with Crotched Mountain School procedure. · Assists in the orientation of new direct care staff, including review of job description and completion of a 180-day evaluation under the direction of the Education Director. · Provides staff performance appraisals for assigned Para I, and Para II, in coordination with the Education Director. · Initiates progressive discipline of staff in accordance with Crotched Mountain School procedure. · Constructs and provides development and / or corrective action plans for individual supervisees as necessary and ensures the necessary teaching and tracking. · Assists Education Director in assessing training needs of Education staff. · Provides training when necessary and as assigned. · Provide supervisory back-up in the absence of other team supervisors.
- In Charge Responsibilities: Campus In-Charge: (School Day) · Assumes campus in-charge responsibilities in rotation with other education supervisors. · Primary contact person for all events, issues, and concerns on campus when assuming in-charge responsibilities. · Contacts on-call administration per Crotched Mountain School’s on-call policy. · Ensures documentation of all required campus activities and significant events affecting the daily program. · Responds to staff injured on the job as required, and in accordance with Crotched Mountain School’s workers compensation policy. · Addresses staff call-outs and/or staff shortages ensuring required student to staff ratio per Crotched Mountain School policy. · Ensures the safety of the campus with regard to proper identification of all staff and visitors.
- Team In-Charge: (Vacations, Snow Days and Holidays, OT Shifts) · Serves as Team in-charge on all scheduled shifts. · Contacts on-call administration per Crotched Mountain School’s On-Call Policy. · Ensures documentation of significant campus functions and events affecting the program. · Ensures nightly campus security checklist and checks, as per program procedure.
- Medication Distribution: · Distributes prescribed medication to designated students as trained and when approved, under the direction of nursing personnel. · Communicates and documents any medication concerns and issues per Crotched Mountain School procedure.
- Milieu Management and Work Habits: · Communicates essential information to appropriate program staff. · Acts as a positive and professional role model. · Evaluates and communicates concerns and needs related to the daily program routines, including the personal and professional concerns of the direct care staff. · Delegates responsibilities for daily program activities to Para I, and Para II. · Implements appropriate management skills, provides direction and leadership. · Ensures that behavior management guidelines are implemented appropriately by staff. · Monitor implementation of special programs for students place out-or-program. · Is able to respond appropriately to emergency situations and provide leadership and effective decision making. · Oversees appropriate school recreational activities. · Provides recommendation to the BCBA and students team in the development of student Individual Behavior Plans. · Performs all essential duties of Paraeducator I and II when needed. · Ability to remain awake and alert while on duty. · Maintains ample attendance and punctuality to provide essential in charge functions. ‘ · Manages multiple priorities and respond to assignments in a timely fashion.
- Professional Development: · Participates in all required trainings and meetings. · Actively participates professionally in all team meetings. · Encourages educational and professional development of direct care staff. · Actively seeks to enhance professional knowledge and skills. · Provides professional development opportunities for staff. · Able to lead team meetings in a professional manner.
- Student Advocacy: · Evaluates and communicates individual student needs and concerns to appropriate program staff. · Ensures student special programs are followed and relevant documentation is completed. · Ensures that all staff model and demonstrate care giver qualities that treat all students with dignity and respect.
- Personnel Responsibilities: · Assists Education Director in interviewing perspective candidates and making hiring recommendations.
- Safety Care / Physical Management of Students: · Oversees the proper utilization of Safety Care by education staff. · Responds to student’s behavior in accordance with Crotched Mountain School’s Behavior Management policy and the principles of Safety Care. · Oversees behavioral management interventions during scheduled shifts. · Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift. · Performs the activities of Safety Care physical intervention as noted in the training manual · Ensures least restrictive measures of therapeutic physical interventions. · Processes issues and/or incidents with students as outlined within Safety Care practices and in accordance with individual treatment plans. · Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift.
Qualifications
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- EXPERIENCE: four years of experience in human services with a minimum of GED, or High School Diploma.
- Special training or specific skills; student intern experience or volunteer work may be credited toward experience.
- PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES: Ability to base decisions on sound judgement and good common sense.
- Ability to role model professional behavior and communication.
- Ability to work as a supportive and cooperative team member.
- Ability to remain awake and alert while on duty.
- LANGUAGE: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure instructions.
- Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
- Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to students, team members, other employees of the organization, parents/guardians, and outside agency personnel.
- MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
- REASONING ABILITY: Able to extract the main ideas from instructions and carry them out in appropriate sequence.
- Able to analyze the components of problem situations, to understand cause and effect, and to develop plans for solutions.
- CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Requires a current valid driver’s license from state of residence.