Day Treatment Schoool - Long-Term Substitute Teacher

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Develop and implement necessary educational lesson plans and programs, daily agenda’s, testing materials, grading, etc. for students.  All lessons plans must be maintained on MFH Intranet on SharePoint.  

Required to report for duty one week prior to the first day of school.  Required to attend six in-service and professional development days as scheduled by program administration.  Required to conduct two parent/teacher conferences; one each semester (except acute).  Required to attend four teacher work days.  

Teachers are expected to be on site and prepared for duty at the following times: Residential Treatment Centers 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.; Day Treatment 7:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.; Behavioral Hospital 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. for unit 3/orange group teacher).     

During inclement weather, if unable to report to work, PTO must be used. If no educational services are provided this day, a make-up day will be scheduled by program administration (excludes Day Treatment programs who follow their applicable school district schedule). 

An expectation of the Teacher is to have prepared quality supplemental educational material in case of an unexpected absence.  A substitute should be able to utilize the previously prepared material in order to ensure the student’s educational requirements are met. 

Expected to maintain classroom order and is responsible for student engagement. Lunch room duty is an expected duty and will be scheduled by program administration. 

Work collaboratively with public-school districts and/or other educational institutions to ensure students requiring Individual Education Plans (IEP’s) are receiving necessary testing and plans in a timely manner.

Responsible for documentation of: attendance records to be turned in to Lead Teacher on a weekly basis; data collection forms for students with IEP’s; daily observation notes on all students; work portfolios (if indicated) for all students; data on student’s work and progress with PACE Learning System (if applicable); testing documentation and filing; and weekly lesson plans, documented with specific IEP objective #’s when applicable and specific skill as indicated in the Arkansas Framework of basic skills. Lesson Plans are to be turned into the Lead Teacher on Friday for the upcoming week.

Must maintain all graded work.  Must be preserved for a minimum of two years and are considered part of the student’s record in which is property of MFH. 

Education materials are not as recent as most public schools, as such teachers are required to augment some textbooks with up to date information from internet education resource sites in order to complete their curriculum. 

Assist the treatment team in preparing goals/objectives for the educational portion of a student’s treatment planning.

Explore and utilize measurement techniques and assessment tools necessary for measuring the effectiveness of educational programs.

Consult with the Program Director or Administrator and/or Lead Teacher regarding changes and/or development of educational programs and procedures as they relate to the MFH education programs.

Maintain client records and files as required by licensing, funding, and certification codes.

Provide related services and duties as requested by Program Director, Administrator and/or Lead Teacher.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution required. 

Must be an approved Long-term Substitute Teacher by the Arkansas Department of Education.

Computer literacy in Microsoft Applications. Ability to document accurately and professionally.

Experience working with “at-risk” youth or other populations with special needs preferred.

Ability as a self-motivator and the aptitude to work in a high stress fast paced position with a minimal amount of supervision.

Must be physically capable to receive verbal and written directions. Must be physically capable of sitting and standing for several hours at a time.  

Must have good auditory, visual and olfactory ability. Ability to use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls.

Must be able to maintain effective audio, visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating office equipment and other treatment equipment.

Must be able to use a telephone to communicate verbally and a computer to communicate through written means, to review information and enter/retrieve data, to see and read characters on a computer screen, chart or other treatment items. 

Remains current in Crisis Prevention Intervention Training and Seclusion/Restraint and assist with crisis interventions if needed.

Must be willing and able to work with all patients of Methodist Family Health.

Flu vaccination is mandatory and required for all positions (subject only to qualified exemptions). 

When an employee performs two or more different jobs, for which different straight time hourly rates are established, the employee will be paid during overtime hours at a rate not less than one and one-half time the hourly rate established for the type of work he or she is performing during the overtime hours. 

Pursuant to the Arkansas Medical Marijuana Act 593, this position is a designated safety-sensitive position according to MFH/MCH/MBH standards and processes.  

Note : The Program Administrators will evaluate this position at least every two years.

Job descriptions are not intended, nor should be construed, to be all-inclusive lists of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with a job. While this job description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the job requirements, management reserves the right to modify, add or remove duties from particular jobs and to assign other duties as necessary.

Level One - Full Access:  Ongoing regular access to PHI of all forms while the employee is on duty and performing within the scope of his or her job as defined by the employee's job description, and Policy and Procedure.  "Such access must be for cause, consistent with job responsibilities and related to patients, claims, audits, reviews and other legitimate business purposes." (e.g. Physicians, nurses and other clinicians)