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This position provides psychoeducational treatment services to preschool-aged children, who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental problems, and who have experienced child abuse/neglect or family violence victimization. Work as a member of a team that provides a structured therapeutic milieu to promote remediation of developmental delays and resolution of children's behavioral problems, which have resulted from their victimization or neglect.
Essential Job Functions:
https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=92167&clientkey=F7A2C1867664A674EC207915EDB3AD10
This position provides psychoeducational treatment services to preschool-aged children, who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental problems, and who have experienced child abuse/neglect or family violence victimization. Work as a member of a team that provides a structured therapeutic milieu to promote remediation of developmental delays and resolution of children's behavioral problems, which have resulted from their victimization or neglect.
Essential Job Functions:
- Adhere to the ethical standards of FamilyForward and those of the specific profession.
- Maintain core values standards.
- Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team to maintain the daily therapeutic milieu.
- Take an active role in the daily functioning of the classroom
- Implement all classroom practices including, curriculum development, room arrangement, daily schedules, routines, and transitions.
- Create daily lesson plans which incorporate developmentally appropriate activities and NMT-informed therapeutic interventions.
- Prepare and maintain the classroom environment for the daily activities; ensure cleanliness and safety of the physical environment.
- Provide support to the Educational Therapist during group therapy.
- With support from the Program Supervisor, establish and monitor individual academic goals.
- Utilize Trauma Smart, ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency) Model, and NMT-informed interventions in the classroom.
- Ensure safety of children attending the program at all times, including the use of the safe room or restraint as trained and when necessary.
- Assist Educational Therapist in completing quarterly assessments, as needed.
- Assist Program Manager in completing NMT brain metrics for all children, as needed.
- Attend and actively participate in staff and classroom meetings, including clinical staffing of individual children.
- Participate in parent conferences, as needed.
- Implement individualized NMT recommendations with support from the therapist and educational therapist.
- Participate in regular communication with caregivers to support engagement and consistency between home and school.
- Regularly serve as a monitor on the vans to ensure safety during times of transportation of the children to and from school.
- Attend all trainings as required, including 12 hours of approved childcare credit hours.
- Must be actively involved in Performance Quality Improvement processes.
- Must complete 20 hours of in-service training annually.
- Complete annual First Aid/CPR training, training in Child Abuse and Neglect identification, and Mandated reporting and prevention training.
- Other duties and projects as assigned.
- Bachelors degree in early childhood education or child development required. Advanced degree in related field (social work, counseling) and credits hours in early childhood education considered.
- Experience in early childhood education preferred.
- Minimum three years experience required.
- Personal qualifications as required in Part 407: Licensing Standards for Day Care Centers.
- Experience in serving high needs populations; preferably working with children with challenging behaviors.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of agency vision, mission, and services.
- Ability to meet the developmental and emotional needs of children.
- Ability to develop long-term, trust-based relationships with children, families, and caregivers.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, highly collaborative, and mutually respectful environment.
- Ability to solve problems in a fast-paced setting.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing needs and time pressures.
- Ability to exercise discretion and sound judgement.
- Ability to disseminate information clearly and concisely.
- Ability to communicate professionally with coworkers, customers, donors, and vendors.
- Ability to create and sustain positive working relationships with all levels of the agency; internal and external.