Special Education Teacher

Founded in 1984, NeuroRestorative Timber Ridge offers a continuum of community-based, inpatient treatment and supported living programs for children and adults with brain injury and other neurological challenges. As one of the largest pediatric brain injury facilities in the country, NeuroRestorative Timber Ridge has helped hundreds of children and adolescents receive the specialized supports, therapies and education they need in a comfortable and nurturing setting that promotes growth and independence.

NeuroRestorative Timber Ridge is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local health and human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and development disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join NeuroRestorative Timber Ridge and The MENTOR Network, you'll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

NeuroRestorative Timber Ridge is looking for a special education teacher to provide on-site and alternative/additional educational services to adolescent program participants in a cognitive retraining & educational setting in accordance with their rehabilitation program.

Essential Job Functions

• Provides quality educational services for adolescents
• Provides educational assistance to program participants at their academic placement.
• Coordinates carry-over strategies developed by the cognitive or trans-disciplinary team.
• Attends weekly clinical team meetings with the communication/cognition team.
• Completes all necessary documentation such as service summaries, reports, billing slips, etc.
• Supervises and assists in development and implementation of curriculum.
• Develops methods of evaluating student progress.
• Meets with parents and students to seek solutions to problems.
• Implements policy and procedure of the classroom environment.
• Attends all mandatory training
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Master Degree in Special Education, LD/BD, Bachelor’s in Education
  
• Minimum, one year in classroom or tutorial settings. Experience with special populations preferred
• Ability to communicate effectively (verbal & written) with staff and families, outside constituents, and program participants
• Good documentation skills and report writing skills
• Knowledge of therapeutic programming for neurologically impaired adults
• Knowledge of trans-disciplinary rehabilitation treatment approach
• Ability to actively participate in research

Founded in 1980, The MENTOR Network is a national network of local human services providers offering an array of quality, community-based services in more than 30 states to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families.

EOE/AAE