Check and Connect Program Specialist

Summary

Position: Check and Connect Program SpecialistLocation: Richardson ElementaryWork Schedule: Monday-Friday, 4 hours per day, 190 daysStart Date: ASAPPay: $39.20 Per HourBenefits: NASummary This position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintains a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support to graduate. Including tracking students' level of engagement, document results, and complete monthly forms and a contact log as a tool to assess student improvements in regards to the following: absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Social Work or a related field.Experience working in the school setting.Knowledge and understanding of behavior interventions and support.Ability to collaborate with community agencies to provide services to students.Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written format.Desired Qualifications Master's Degree in Social Work or related field.Licensed in a MN related license service area (i.e. school social work, school psychologist, guidance counselor)Ability to understand, use and share data related to practices and progress monitoringKnowledge of targeted and individual behavior supportAbility to design and delivertraining on School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)Computer proficiencyMulti-age and multi-culture experienceResponsibilities Work with caseloads of students and families, functioning as liaisons between home and school, and striving to build constructive family-school relationshipsData collection in building: including regular checks on students' attendance, grades and behaviorReteach and provide behavior interventions to students, communicate regularly with families, and initiate efforts to keep students engaged in schoolProvide timely, personalized, data-based interventions determined by the solutions team designed to provide support tailored to individual student needs, based on the student's level of engagement with school ("check" data), associated influences of home and school, and leveraging of local resourcesReteach expectations that are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school-wide level.Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school successConsult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school successCollaborate with other Check & Connect Program Specialists and district social workersIndependent School District No, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, does not discriminated on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity.ISD 622 is an equal opportunity employer and supports an inclusive workplace environment.#J-18808-Ljbffr

Job Description

Position: Check and Connect Program SpecialistLocation: Richardson ElementaryWork Schedule: Monday-Friday, 4 hours per day, 190 daysStart Date: ASAPPay: $39.20 Per HourBenefits: NASummary This position supports the Check & Connect Program by providing positive behavior interventions and maintains a caseload of students. The incumbent will work with individual students and their families, school staff, and community service providers to implement strategies and interventions that address school success and school completion for students in need of support to graduate. Including tracking students' level of engagement, document results, and complete monthly forms and a contact log as a tool to assess student improvements in regards to the following: absences, truancies, suspensions, and grades/credits earned.Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Social Work or a related field.Experience working in the school setting.Knowledge and understanding of behavior interventions and support.Ability to collaborate with community agencies to provide services to students.Ability to communicate effectively both in oral and written format.Desired Qualifications Master's Degree in Social Work or related field.Licensed in a MN related license service area (i.e. school social work, school psychologist, guidance counselor)Ability to understand, use and share data related to practices and progress monitoringKnowledge of targeted and individual behavior supportAbility to design and delivertraining on School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS)Computer proficiencyMulti-age and multi-culture experienceResponsibilities Work with caseloads of students and families, functioning as liaisons between home and school, and striving to build constructive family-school relationshipsData collection in building: including regular checks on students' attendance, grades and behaviorReteach and provide behavior interventions to students, communicate regularly with families, and initiate efforts to keep students engaged in schoolProvide timely, personalized, data-based interventions determined by the solutions team designed to provide support tailored to individual student needs, based on the student's level of engagement with school ("check" data), associated influences of home and school, and leveraging of local resourcesReteach expectations that are taught, reinforced, and monitored at the school-wide level.Consult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school successConsult with teachers, parents, and administrators to develop intervention strategies to reduce barriers to school successCollaborate with other Check & Connect Program Specialists and district social workersIndependent School District No, 622, North St. Paul-Maplewood-Oakdale, does not discriminated on the basis of sex and prohibits sex discrimination in any education program or activity.ISD 622 is an equal opportunity employer and supports an inclusive workplace environment.#J-18808-Ljbffr