Behavior Support Specialist
Behavior Support Specialist
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Job Description
The Behavior Support Specialist will work with the schools leadership team to ensure that all students demonstrate dramatic student achievement gains and develop their character and socialemotional skills. This individual will also help lead the schools efforts to create a positive structured consistent caring and disciplined school culture.
In addition to the duties set forth below the Employee agrees that s/he will perform all the other duties that are assigned by his/her supervisors the schools Principal and the Principals designees and/or the Board of Trustees including but not limited to:
Goals for the Behavior Support Specialist include but are not limited to:
- Model high expectations for student behavior and interactions.
- Support efforts of every student to succeed academically and behaviorally and graduate from college.
- Enforce expectations from the Code of Conduct
- Maintain a focused serious and efficient environment for the InSchool Suspension program.
- Create and support systems that prevent misbehavior as well as intervene and correct misbehaviors as they arise to prevent escalation.
- Collaborate with the DOS to develop plans for students with repeated struggles to meet expectations.
- Refer students to the Social Worker (via email and CC DOS) if/when reports are made that require SW intervention.
- Motivate and coach students to meet expectations by leveraging personal relationships while also maintaining strong professional boundaries and a clear line between adult and student.
Specific Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Manage the InSchool Suspension classroom daily including communicating with teachers accepting and processing sendouts addressing misconduct and communicating with families.
- Distribute and monitor work that students are completing during InSchool Suspension.
- Collecting work for students with Out of School Suspensions and manage the pickup/delivery with students.
- Manage Lunch Detention.
- Manage EarlyRelease Program for Detention based on Kickboard.
- Manage Extended Detention Notifications.
- Assist DOS when no students are in ISS.
- Meet weekly with DOS for feedback goalsetting coaching/practice collaboration and problemsolving of discipline issues and concerns.
- Utilize Kickboard and Microsoft Excel to manage behavioral data of students.
Qualifications :
- Passionate commitment to the mission of Uncommon Schools and investment in our vision for being an antiracist organization.
- Unwavering belief in high academic and behavioral expectations for all students.
- Exceptional time and task management skills.
- Ability to persevere despite uncertainty and unexpected obstacles.
- Relentless drive to empower students academically and personally.
- Selfmotivation desire to be a great teammate and a strong sense of personal responsibility.
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written and strong interpersonal skills with students parents colleagues and community members.
- Ability and desire to implement feedback from school leaders and colleagues.
- Required Experience:
- Bachelors degree is required
Additional Information :
Our people are what make us Uncommon. We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits that support the personal health wellness and finances of our staff and their families. Our compensation philosophy values equity & fairness and attracting & retaining top talent.
Compensation
Compensation for this role is between $19.19 per hour to $24.80 per hour. Most candidates who meet job description requirements will receive an offer of $19.19 $20.76 per hour.
Starting pay is determined using various factors including but not limited to relevant professional development education certifications and tenure with Uncommon Schools.
Benefits
- Generous paid time off inclusive of sick time paid holidays and 10 weeks of paid breaks (Spring Winter and Summer).
- Extensive bestinclass training and development
- Comprehensive health dental and vision insurance plans pretax flexible spending (FSA) dependent care (DCFSA) and health saving accounts (HSA)
- Financial Planning
- 403(b) retirement savings program employer match
- Paid leave of absence options (parental medical disability etc.
- Mental health and counseling support wellness benefits
*A detailed list of all benefits is located HERE.
At Uncommon we believe that a supportive and welcoming environment helps our students staff and community thrive. We are dedicated to building a team that brings a wide range of perspectives and experiences reflective of the communities we servewith over 70 of our staff identifying as people of color. Our organization values respect and open dialogue on important topics that shape our school culture.
As an equal opportunity employer Uncommon 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 characteristic protected by federal state or local laws. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities receive all privileges and benefits associated with employment and are provided reasonable accommodations for the interview process and to perform core job functions. If you would like to request an accommodation please email
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
