Behavior Support Specialist - NPS
Behavior Support Specialist - NPS
Posted on :
04-05-2025
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Monthly Salary
$ 23 - 30
Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
04-05-2025
Job Description
NOTE: The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has issued new requirements for health care and congregant care facilities to decrease the risk of COVID19 outbreaks. Based on the CDPH public health mandate all candidates for positions at Edgewood Center must provide proof of vaccination. Edgewood Center will consider applicants with ADA and Title VII exemptions on a casebycase basis.
Mission
Edgewood is the place to begin for any child or youth to get the mental health care social services and academic support they need from highly trained welcoming professionals.
Vision Statement:
For everyone we serve to have the power to live life with understanding confidence strength and joy.
Behavior Support Specialistthis is a fulltime/nonexempt position 40 hours Fri. 8am to 4:30 pm located at our San Francisco campus.
This position is 100% on site with occasional outings/field trips into the community with the students.
This position is included in the Teamster Local 856 bargaining unit.
About Edgewood
Each person who works at Edgewood Center for Children and Families shares a passion for making a difference in the lives of the children and families who we serve in the San Francisco Bay Area. Employees find themselves surrounded by a diverse and extraordinary group of dedicated professionals in welcoming environments characterized by wholeperson care open communication creative support and a commitment to growth healing and improving each day. Edgewoods successes come from our employees and the positive results they help create for children and families. When you join Edgewood you join a culture of purpose and belonging where your growth is a priority your identity is embraced and the work you do matters.
Position Summary
This position continuously maintains the assigned classrooms therapeutic milieu with strategies and supportive techniques to meet the mental health needs of the students to ensure continuous intensive services. Staff will support students in reaching behavioral and academic goals through the effective implementation of therapeutic interventions and managing behaviors though planned individual rehabilitation.
Essential Functions
- Coordinates with classroom staff to maintain and consistently support classroom needs
- Monitors and coachs implementation of individualized support plans by maintaining awareness of all plans and providing ongoing feedback to classroom staff to ensure effective and consistent implementation of plans
- Regularly reviews written Behavior Intervention Plans
- Coordinates crisis intervention for classroom by implementing/guiding deescalation techniques to ensure the safest and quickest deescalation of crisis behavior
- Assists other classroom staff with implementation of daily activities to ensure teamwork and consistency among staff
- Provides safe effective efficient culturally competent and studentcentered activities
- Ensures consistent and timely completion of high quality daily mental health progress notes and attendance tracking
- Completes assigned paperwork in a thorough and timely fashion
- Maintains physical plant; keeps assigned areas clean and orderly and communicates maintenance issues to supervisors and other departments as necessary
- Follows Handle with Care Principles and Techniques concentrating mainly on proactive deescalation strategies increasing level of interaction only as necessary.
- Participates in treatment team meetings and supports following through with the implementation of treatment plans and other treatment team decisions
- Maintains a professional approach to work including maintaining appropriate adult/child boundaries resolving differences with other staff in a collaborative manner and keeping a teamoriented approach to all aspects of the work
- Follows all agency and program policies and procedures regarding attendance documentation emergency protocols etc.
- Provides guidance and direction to relief staff
- Provides safe effective efficient culturally competent and consumer centered implementation of direct care in accordance with established policies procedures and standards of care
- Responsible for generating maintaining printing filling out completing and filing Daily Behavioral Reports (DBRs)
- Completes all other assignments as delegated by designated supervisor
Core Competencies
- Partners with the treatment team members in the assessment development implementation and evaluation of individualized treatment and care plans
- Coordination and facilitation skills
- Case management mentoring and coaching skills
- Develops maintains and strengthen partnerships
- Generates reports both verbally and in writing
- Maintains physical environment (duties include but are not limited to cleaning and organizing the classroom/cottage reporting safety issues to facilities doing and sorting laundry etc.)
- Seeks support and guidance from senior counselors
- Adheres to agency protocols (call out protocol medication protocol SIR protocol training plan etc.)
- Meets program documentation standard (including increase in standard when taking OT shifts)
- Contributes positively to creating a healingcentered welcoming antiracist LGBTQ affirming team and organization
- Demonstrates cultural competency humility and sensitivity treating youth families and colleagues with dignity and respect
Applied Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Effective therapeutic interventions with volatile and potentially assaultive students utilizing Handle with Care principles and techniques
- Strong organizational skills
- Strong mentoring skills
- Familiarity with group and individual behavior management techniques
- Ability to work independently
- Ability to develop cultivate an understanding of and adapt to the diverse backgrounds of students
- Ability and willingness to utilize technology necessary to provide sound documentation of services provided
- Ability to move or lift objects (50100 lbs.)
- Bachelors degree preferred. (Strong experience may substitute for BA).
- Must apply for or possess a National Provider Identification (NPI) Number within one week of date of hire.
- Must be 21 years of age or older.
- Work experience in a residential school day care or child centered agency with focus on children with special needs preferred.
- Ability to carry out agency behavior intervention procedures
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team approach
- Demonstrates and models excellent customer service orientation especially in the ability to interactwith people at all levels within and outside of the agency
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal skills
The hourly rate for this position is: $23.15$30.09 dependent on language and experience differentials.
As part of our team benefitseligible employees receive an excellent comprehensive benefits package:
- PTO in coordination with school summer and holiday breaks
- One floating holiday
- Nine paid holidays
- Five health and wellness days off annually
- 10% additional pay for communityrelevant second language fluency
- Medical/Dental/and Vision plans
- 403 B Retirement Plan with agency match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Medical and Childcare Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pet Insurance
- Identity Theft Protection Plan
- Paid employee referral program
- Flexible work schedules
- Career advancement opportunities
- Retention bonuses for many positions
- Continuing Education expense reimbursement
- Professional licensing fee reimbursement
- Professional Development reimbursement opportunities
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Equal Opportunity
Edgewood is proud to be an equalopportunity employer. People of color women persons with disabilities and persons who are lesbian gay bisexual transgender or intersex are encouraged to apply. Edgewood maintains a policy of nondiscrimination with respect to employees and applicants for employment. No aspect of employment will be influenced in any matter by race color religion sex age national origin marital status ethnicity religion sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression physical disability (including HIV or AIDS) medical condition perceived physical disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by statute.
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