NP Transformation - Assistant Behavioral Specialist - Full-time

Description

About Us

The Children's Guild is a nonprofit organization serving children, families, and child-serving organizations. We are dedicated to transforming how America educates and cares for its children through education, behavioral health, management, and consulting services. The Children's Guild operates the Monarch Academy public charter and contract schools, Monarch Preschool College Park, The Children's Guild DC Public Charter School,

The Children's Guild Transformation Academy, the TranZed Academy for Working Students, TranZed Apprenticeships, therapeutic group homes, treatment foster care, and outpatient mental health clinics. We are among the most experienced child-serving organizations in the Greater Baltimore/Washington region and are currently expanding in national and international programs.

Each year, the agency's continuum of care and hundreds of professional staff help thousands of youths and young adults and their families to achieve, excel and succeed. We invite you to be part of our innovative team!

The core mission of this role is to support, implement, and ensure compliance of The Children's Guild's behavior motivation model.

• Support & Model: Provide modeling and mentoring to staff on executing the behavior motivation model.
• Compliance: Maintain regulatory compliance with agencies like COMAR, MSDE, and OSSE.
• Training: Develop and provide training for various school personnel (teachers, aides, social workers, etc.).
• Direct Assistance: Offer direct support to resource instructors and therapeutic behavioral aides for identified students.
• Collaboration: Work with the school's IEP coordinator and student LEAs to align service delivery with jurisdictional requirements.
• Resource: Serve as a behavioral resource for parents, community providers, and the school community.

 Key Result Areas (KRAs)

The responsibilities are broken down into several Key Result Areas:

• Responding to Mindset in Behavior: Focuses on actively managing student behavior by demonstrating proactive strategies, analyzing the impact of interventions, developing replacement behaviors, and ensuring all practices align with the school's Positive Behavior Intervention Model and use continuous data analysis.
• Management of Behavioral Services in the School: Involves coordinating services, including timely communication with parents, providing support to therapeutic behavioral aides, facilitating various behavioral meetings (case study, etc.), and assisting with the development and monitoring of FBA/BIPs (Functional Behavioral Assessments / Behavior Intervention Plans).
• Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring all daily practices and systems for staff and aides align with COMAR and MSDE regulations.
• Training: Assessing staff training needs, providing in-class support for students with behavior issues, and ensuring staff understand and implement student FBA/BIPs.
• Professional Development: Maintaining required licensing and continuing education.
• Positive Student Intervention: Executing PBIS (Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports), integrating the Transformation Education philosophy, and monitoring safety, especially for high-risk situations.

Qualifications

The qualifications of this position include the commitment and drive to develop the potential of others and the interpersonal skills necessary to do so. The successful candidate will also possess a value system that is consistent with the organization's philosophy and goals, demonstrate leadership skill, be mentally alert, physically healthy and possess the stamina needed to work with children in a dynamic environment. The professional in this position must also possess a desire to grow, learn and change, and to serve as a role model. This professional will work closely with both the behavioral resource instructors as well as the clinical team.

This position requires significant knowledge and experience with behaviors associated with emotional disturbance and autism in children grades K-12.

Academic Preparation and/or Experience:

Must have a current Registered Behavior Technician Certificate approved the BCBA Board.

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 accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move more than 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include ability to adjust focus.

All Guild employees are expected to demonstrate an awareness of, respect for, and attention to the diversity of the people with whom they interact (person served, personnel, families/caregivers, and other stakeholders) that are reflected in attitudes, organizational structure, policies, and services.

EEOC Statement 

 The Children’s Guild provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.