Instructional Support Specialist Job at Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health Glenmoore, PA 19343

Description:

Do you enjoy utilizing your skills to impact children and adolescents in a classroom setting? Are you looking for a collaborative environment to share your passion for helping others?


If you answered, Yes, then consider working as an Instructional Support Specialist in our Devereux Brandywine School, located in Glenmoore, PA!


You'll be offered:
  • Tuition Assistance for those seeking higher education
  • On-going training opportunities to include: internal training in the behavioral health-care field and additional job-related training and conferences.
  • Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options- A stable national non-profit employer that offers a strong support system and is forward-thinking in their clinical practice and research.
  • Full time hours M-F 7am-3pm
  • Rates starting at $16.50hr up to $18.81hr -Sign on Bonus- $1000 for full-time and $500 for part-time.
What a day in the life of an Instructional Support Specialist looks like:
  • Ensuring the health and safety of youth in our Glenmoore, PA private school with a 1:1 ratio.
  • Provide assistance with academic, social and behavioral needs.
  • Support the teacher and administration's direction while supporting youth and reporting progress daily.


Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Services (DPACS)
center serves children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral, emotional and psychiatric challenges and disorders. Located in West Chester and Malvern Pennsylvania, services provided include psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF), residential treatment (RTF), acute inpatient psychiatric hospital (AIP), assessment services, community-based mental health services, community-based employment training and social skills training, and approved private school educational services to male and female children and adolescents (6-21 years of age) with diagnoses of intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, concomitant psychiatric and behavioral challenges often associated with experiencing some level of trauma in their lives.


Keywords: Direct Support, PCA, Personal Care Assistant, Instructional Support, 1:1, Special Education, teaching assistant, DPACS

Qualifications:
EDUCATION: High School Diploma required. Associates Degree or completion of two years of post-secondary education from an accredited college or university preferred.

EXPERIENCE
: Previous experience working in a special education or behavioral healthcare setting with students with severe/complex behavioral/emotional issues preferred.

Devereux requires all individuals interviewing for a position involving contact with children to complete The Diana Screen, a screening that assesses a candidate’s understanding of appropriate boundaries between adults and children.

Devereux is committed to the health and safety of our staff.
All Devereux centers have formal infectious-disease and emergency-management plans tailored to specifically address the unique aspects of communicable disease prevention including COVID-19.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 vaccine mandate requires staff without an approved medical or religious exemption to be fully vaccinated to be employed in this program.
If you are fully vaccinated, you will need to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or have an approved medical or religious exemption prior to starting.

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.



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