BEHAVIOR INTERVENTIONIST

Behavior Interventionist

The Tangipahoa Parish School System (TPSS) is now accepting applications for the position of Behavior Interventionist.

Salary: $50,679 - $73,502 (Based on verified years of relevant experience)

Location: Family Services Center, Hammond, LA

Criteria: Must possess or be eligible to obtain within six (6) months upon hire one of the following credentials:

• Issued by the Louisiana State Board of Social Work Examiners: Licensed Clinical Social Worker, or Licensed Master Social Worker, or
• Issued by the Louisiana Department of Education; Certification as a School Social Worker; or Ancillary Certification as either: Social Worker – Provisional; or Social Worker – Qualified

UPDATED diplomas, certificates, and other supporting documentation must be submitted with the application.

Applications for this position will only be accepted through the Frontline Recruit and Hire website: Paper applications and/or email scanned attachment(s) will not be accepted or processed for consideration.

Submit your application through the Frontline Recruit and Hire portal, even if a previous paper application is on file with TPSS Human Resources. Previous paper or email applications will not be considered.

Important Note: Please be advised that all applicants who apply for this position should check their Frontline email account daily, including their SPAM folder, for communications regarding this advertisement.

The Tangipahoa Parish School System is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Participate in the SAT process to address behavior concerns.

2. Explain the behavior intervention process to parents and school staff.

3. Collaborate, on an as needed basis, with teachers to provide support in the implementation of behavioral strategies within the classroom and school setting.

4. Assist teachers with the planning and implementing FBAs/BIPs

• Completion of an FBA by obtaining pertinent behavioral information from multiple sources, including but not limited to, standardized instruments, checklists, records, discussion, interviews, detailed interviews with teachers, direct observations to help determine what has been maintaining the inappropriate behavior
• How to use the FBA to design/revise an empirically-based BIP that includes behavior management strategies, de-escalating techniques, and crisis response plans
• Identify effective techniques of behavior management, identify therapeutic needs of student, and provide crisis intervention as needed
• Model for teachers/parents behavior management strategies, de-escalating techniques, and crisis response
• How to collect, analyze, and interpret behavioral data for successful outcomes
• List of helpful teacher resources for FBAs and BIPs

5. Conduct Manifestation Determination Review as necessary.

6. Analyze, interpret, and explain the results of the FBA's and/or MDR's to parents and school staff.

7. Assist in the development of the IEP in order to link the FBA to the development of behavioral/social goals and BIP's in the IEP.

8. Provide short-term individual or group interventions for those students whose school social/behavior difficulties would benefit from such services

9. Consult and collaborate with personnel of community health and social service agencies

10. Complete discipline/homebound reevaluations as needed.

11. Maintain accurate case reports, collaboration documentation, and contact log with teachers for referred students

12. Complete Professional Growth Plan and Self-Evaluation

13. Complete all required reports of the parish and/or LDOE

14. Maintain professional development by reading current research in behavioral management and/or behavioral disorders (this need updating)

15. Perform other duties assigned by the appropriate authority

Terms of Employment: 9 or 9½ months

Evaluation: Criteria established by Tangipahoa Parish School Board policy.

Reviewed and Agreed To: ______________________________ DATE:______________