Job Information
Cedar Rapids Community School District Special Education Interventionist in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Special Education Interventionist JobID: 13399
Position Type:
Student Support Services
Date Posted:
9/11/2024
Location:
Kenwood Elementary School
Date Available:
2024-2025 School Year
SPECIAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONIST
JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB SUMMARY: The Special Education Interventionist will support classrooms/programs designed for students with special education needs. This position will work alongside teachers, administrators, AEA support staff, and paraeducators to meet the academic, behavioral and social-emotional needs of students. The interventionist responsibilities may include, but not be limited to: implementation and modeling of evidenced-based strategies, monitoring student behavior, implementing plans of support when needed, facilitating collaborative planning, and ensuring that coordinated services are offered that match assessed needs.
ORGANIZATIONAL AND REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS: The special education interventionist will report directly to the building/program administrator and will maintain a working relationship with building and classroom staff, and community agencies. The special education interventionist is responsible for meeting the needs of our special education teachers and our special education students.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: The essential functions, as shown below, represent the key areas of responsibility; specific position requirements may vary depending on need. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.
Team Collaboration:
Provide active communication and positive relationships with parents, students, staff, and community members
Analyze behavioral trends and patterns
Assist with BIP development with direction from the BCBA and/or GWAEA
Assist with BIP implementation checklist(s)
Assist with interventions
Attend IEP meetings, support team meetings, and other similar meetings within the building for communication and service coordination when requested
Implement/model with staff, strategies to support and meet students’ needs in the areas of researched evidenced-based strategies and achievement of IEP goals
Develop and implement programming associated with supporting students with academic, behavioral, and SEB needs. This may include:
small group instruction
whole group instruction
work systems
response and preventative strategies
Student Support:
Assist with de-escalation of student behaviors including reintegration back into the classroom/work system/related required task
Administer one-to-one intensive behavior interventions for students. Actively participate in behavior intervention, debriefing meetings (pertaining to special education students), or team meetings
Assist teacher with Medicaid summaries and daily Medicaid logs
Provide supervision of students (e.g. lunch duty, recess, substitute rotation, arrival dismal) as necessary and directed by the building/program administrator. These duties should not take away from meeting the needs of our special education students.
OTHER DUTIES: This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of duties or responsibilities required for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED:
Patience and understanding in communicating with persons to be served and the ability to advocate for students in accessing needed resources.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders
Ability to work with diverse populations.
Ability to speak clearly and concisely both in oral and written communication.
Commitment to help program youth and their families identify their strengths.
Ability to take initiative
Ability to recognize sensitive issues and maintain confidentiality
Knowledge of, and ability to implement, de-escalation techniques
Knowledge of, and ability to implement, behavior management techniques including evidenced-based strategies around behavior and SEB.
Knowledge of community resources.
Regular attendance.
Capable of representing the school in a professional manner, which includes but is not limited to confidentiality, communication skills, and dress.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY REQUIREMENTS: 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 essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands and fingers to handle and/or feel objects, tools, or controls; talk, and hear. The employee frequently must squat, stoop, or kneel, reach above the head and forward 0-24 inches, and on occasion up to 36 inches. The employee continuously uses hand strength to grasp items. The employee will frequently bend or twist at the neck and trunk more than the average person while performing the duties of this job. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds 0 - 12 feet and occasionally up to 20 feet, such as curriculum materials, desks, chairs, and boxes. The employee will sometimes push/pull items such as tables and carts. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus while supervising students and working with computers, written materials, reports, assessment data, etc.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. The position requires the commitment of professional working hours that may require the employee to extend beyond the school day specific to the building they support. The employee will frequently work in different areas of the classroom including in/at desks, on or near the floor, standing, in movement while supervising indoor and outdoor activities, etc. The employee will usually work in indoor temperatures but will work outdoors or when supervising students outside of the classroom.