Behavior Aide
Specialized Education Services
Location
Marion County, Ohio
Quick overview
The behavior aide collaborates with teachers to provide individualized support to students, monitor behavior, and track educational progress. They are responsible for implementing behavior support plans, de-escalation techniques, and ensuring a safe, inclusive environment for students.
Requirements summary
The position requires a high school diploma and the ability to perform physical tasks such as lifting up to 50 pounds and moving swiftly. Previous experience working in an educational setting with students who have intensive behavioral needs is preferred.
Job description
Company Overview
- Shine on as a behavior aide.
- Specialized Education Services, Inc. (SESI), a division of FullBloom, is a premier provider of education services for K-12 students who require additional supports to overcome challenges that impede success in a traditional school setting.
- SESI partners with school districts to run in-district classrooms and standalone schools that meet the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional needs of special and alternative education students.
- Partnering with over 600 school districts nationwide, SESI serves more than 7,000 students.
- Join our team members who shine a positive light on our students and uncover the unique learner within.
- Have a profound impact, grow, learn, and thrive as part of our team.
- What you can expect from us.
- Diverse career pathways, mobility up and across our national network, and ongoing professional and leadership development.
- Paid training, tuition reimbursement, and credentialing support.
- Data-driven, evidence-based learning and instructional models, including SESI’s own positive behavioral interventions and support (PBIS) framework called CASE.
- An attractive and robust suite of benefits, including comprehensive healthcare benefits, 401(k) with employer match, employee assistance program, mental health support, fertility and family building, and more.
- Smaller class sizes in diverse educational settings.
Overview
Advance student potential—and your own—as you collaborate with the teacher to work with small groups of students in delivering individualized services and support. Realize the joy of possibility as you monitor student behavior, track educational progress, communicate with parents, and reinforce learning and skills through our proven model.
Responsibilities
- Work in a setting with diverse students from varying developmental, cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
- Work one on one with an assigned student to meet goals set forth in their IEP, providing accommodations and modifications as necessary.
- Assist in the development and modification of behavior support plans.
- Implement behavior support plans; record and track data on behaviors, progress toward goals, and incidents.
- Utilize behavior support and intervention strategies.
- Implement de-escalation techniques, crisis management, and physical restraint if necessary to maintain the safety of students and staff.
- Foster a positive and inclusive environment that encourages the development of appropriate social and behavioral skills.
- Supervise students and ensure they are always monitored, including to and from appropriate school locations.
- Work in collaboration with interdisciplinary team members to ensure consistent implementation of behavior support plans.
- Provide personal care support dependent on the student’s needs.
- Communicate effectively with parents.
- SESI.AT.1
Qualifications
What we expect of you. High school diploma. Experience working in an educational setting implementing behavioral interventions for students with intensive behavioral needs preferred
Posted
Salary Range
Starting from USD $15.00/Hr. Physical Requirements
- Ability to run short distances and move swiftly in response to student needs, including bending, kneeling, and crouching.
- Ability to lift and assist students with mobility challenges, often requiring the handling of up to 50 pounds or more.
- Skill in managing fine motor tasks, such as helping students with writing, manipulating small objects, or using adaptive devices.
- Ability to operate a computer or tablet for up to 8 hours daily.
- Capacity to notice and respond to non-verbal cues from students Capacity to remain calm and composed during physically and emotional demanding situations, ensuring student safety and well-being.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid training
- Mental health support
- 401(k) with employer match
- Employee assistance program
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits
- Credentialing support
- Fertility and family building