The Educational Supervisor oversees Paraeducator I and Paraeducator II and under the direction of the Education Director oversees the operation of the campus during the education hours

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

Other program related duties may be assigned.

Standards of Care

• Ensures Crotched Mountain School standards of care are achieved consistently by all education staff.
• Ensures a safe and therapeutic milieu is provided at all times
• Evaluates and communicates individual student needs to appropriate program staff.
• Ensures that all staff model and demonstrate care giver qualities that treat all students with dignity and respect.
• Promotes staff interventions that support the Crotched Mountain School’s Safety Care approach.
• During non-school days; facilitates student visits and treats family and visitors with dignity and respect.
• Prevents interactions that are not sanctioned within the rules, practices, and policies of Crotched Mountain School.
• Prevents actions and disparaging comments that may be considered horseplay, roughhousing, and/or derogatory comments and demeaning gestures.
• Monitors staff-to-student interactions, including professional boundaries, and responds to any concerns according to program procedures.
• Acts as a role model and reinforces pro-social behaviors with students and staff.

Staffing and Schedule:

• Maintains assigned master schedule on When to Work and reports to Education Director on the effectiveness of daily staff configuration.
• Assists as needed with filling shift vacancies to provide mandatory ratio.
• Monitors direct care staff attendance for call out patterns and other attendance problems.
• Tracks use of overtime / extra time for maximum safety and efficiency.
• Assists with interviews of direct care candidates and makes hiring recommendations to Education Director.
• Assists with ensuring appropriate personnel paperwork for the interview is complete and forwarded to the Human Resources Director.

Tracking Data and Documentation:

• Documents direct care staff attendance and use of overtime.
• Oversees documentation and circulation of progressive discipline, performance evaluations and other staff concerns for assigned staff.
• Ensures required daily paperwork and documentation is completed by appropriate staff.
• Calculates data as required for various studies, surveys, and/or research as part of team or campus needs.
• Completes required supervisory paperwork in an accurate and timely manner.
• Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift.

Policy and Procedure:

Maintains knowledge of all Crotched Mountain School policies and procedures including updates and amendments.

• Ensures that all Crotched Mountain School policies and procedures are followed by staff under their direct supervision.
• Ensures that all student programs are followed and documented appropriately.
• Responds to students’ behavior in accordance with Crotched Mountain School’s behavior management policy and the principles of Safety Care.

Staff Supervision:

• Provides formal supervision to assigned Para I, and Para II in accordance with Crotched Mountain School procedure.
• Assists in the orientation of new direct care staff, including review of job description and completion of a 180-day evaluation under the direction of the Education Director.
• Provides staff performance appraisals for assigned Para I, and Para II, in coordination with the Education Director.
• Initiates progressive discipline of staff in accordance with Crotched Mountain School procedure.
• Constructs and provides development and / or corrective action plans for individual supervisees as necessary and ensures the necessary teaching and tracking.
• Assists Education Director in assessing training needs of Education staff.
• Provides training when necessary and as assigned.
• Provide supervisory back-up in the absence of other team supervisors.

In Charge Responsibilities:

Campus In-Charge: (School Day)

• Assumes campus in-charge responsibilities in rotation with other education supervisors.
• Primary contact person for all events, issues, and concerns on campus when assuming in-charge responsibilities.
• Contacts on-call administration per Crotched Mountain School’s on-call policy.
• Ensures documentation of all required campus activities and significant events affecting the daily program.
• Responds to staff injured on the job as required, and in accordance with Crotched Mountain School’s workers compensation policy.
• Addresses staff call-outs and/or staff shortages ensuring required student to staff ratio per Crotched Mountain School policy.
• Ensures the safety of the campus with regard to proper identification of all staff and visitors.

Team In-Charge: (Vacations, Snow Days and Holidays, OT Shifts)

• Serves as Team in-charge on all scheduled shifts.
• Contacts on-call administration per Crotched Mountain School’s On-Call Policy.
• Ensures documentation of significant campus functions and events affecting the program.
• Ensures nightly campus security checklist and checks, as per program procedure.

Medication Distribution:

• Distributes prescribed medication to designated students as trained and when approved, under the direction of nursing personnel.
• Communicates and documents any medication concerns and issues per Crotched Mountain School procedure.

Milieu Management and Work Habits:

• Communicates essential information to appropriate program staff.
• Acts as a positive and professional role model.
• Evaluates and communicates concerns and needs related to the daily program routines, including the personal and professional concerns of the direct care staff.
• Delegates responsibilities for daily program activities to Para I, and Para II.
• Implements appropriate management skills, provides direction and leadership.
• Ensures that behavior management guidelines are implemented appropriately by staff.
• Monitor implementation of special programs for students place out-or-program.
• Is able to respond appropriately to emergency situations and provide leadership and effective decision making.
• Oversees appropriate school recreational activities.
• Provides recommendation to the BCBA and students team in the development of student Individual Behavior Plans.
• Performs all essential duties of Paraeducator I and II when needed.
• Ability to remain awake and alert while on duty.
• Maintains ample attendance and punctuality to provide essential in charge functions. ‘
• Manages multiple priorities and respond to assignments in a timely fashion.

Professional Development:

• Participates in all required trainings and meetings.
• Actively participates professionally in all team meetings.
• Encourages educational and professional development of direct care staff.
• Actively seeks to enhance professional knowledge and skills.
• Provides professional development opportunities for staff.
• Able to lead team meetings in a professional manner.

Student Advocacy:

• Evaluates and communicates individual student needs and concerns to appropriate program staff.
• Ensures student special programs are followed and relevant documentation is completed.
• Ensures that all staff model and demonstrate care giver qualities that treat all students with dignity and respect.

Personnel Responsibilities:

• Assists Education Director in interviewing perspective candidates and making hiring recommendations.

Safety Care / Physical Management of Students:

• Oversees the proper utilization of Safety Care by education staff.
• Responds to student’s behavior in accordance with Crotched Mountain School’s Behavior Management policy and the principles of Safety Care.
• Oversees behavioral management interventions during scheduled shifts.
• Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift.
• Performs the activities of Safety Care physical intervention as noted in the training manual
• Ensures least restrictive measures of therapeutic physical interventions.
• Processes issues and/or incidents with students as outlined within Safety Care practices and in accordance with individual treatment plans.
• Ensures all documentation relevant to Safety Care is completed accurately and thoroughly by the close of each shift.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This job has supervisory responsibilities for assigned Para I, and Para II, and other direct care workers who may be temporarily assigned to the department.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Bachelors Degree and One year’s experience in human services; or Associate’s Degree with 2 years of experience in human services; or four years of experience in human services with a minimum of GED, or High School Diploma. Special training or specific skills; student intern experience or volunteer work may be credited toward experience.

PROFESSIONAL QUALITIES:

Ability to base decisions on sound judgement and good common sense. Ability to role model professional behavior and communication. Ability to work as a supportive and cooperative team member. Ability to remain awake and alert while on duty.

LANGUAGE:

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure instructions. Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to students, team members, other employees of the organization, parents/guardians, and outside agency personnel.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY:

Able to extract the main ideas from instructions and carry them out in appropriate sequence. Able to analyze the components of problem situations, to understand cause and effect, and to develop plans for solutions.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:

Requires a current valid driver’s license from state of residence.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is required to sit. The employee must perform activities required to participate in physical restraint in relation to the appropriate size of staff and student. Specific vision abilities required by this job include peripheral vision, and depth perception. The employee is required to remain awake and alert while on duty.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

ADDENDUM TO ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS REGARDING SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF SAFETY CARE RESTRAINT PROCESS:

It is essential that the Education Supervisor be able to demonstrate the ability to participate in a single person or team physical restraint as taught within Safety Care. Education Supervisors need to be able to demonstrate, with or without accommodation, the ability to perform the activities of a physical restraint.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE:

Bachelors Degree and One year’s experience in human services; or Associate’s Degree with 2 years of experience in human services; or four years of experience in human services with a minimum of GED, or High School Diploma. Special training or specific skills; student intern experience or volunteer work may be credited toward experience.