Teacher

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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:

• 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.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• 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, Skills, and Abilities:

• 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.