Job Description
The Gersh Organization is dedicated to changing the lives of children on the autism spectrum. We are looking to hire a full-time, Intervention Specialist to support the needs of our school located in Downtown Brooklyn, NY.
Intervention Specialist Responsibilities:
- Observe, manage, evaluate, and document all aspects of student behavioral issues and crisis interventions. This includes the effectiveness and efficiency of all intervention strategies and verbal and physical techniques employed.
- Assess and maintain a functional environment for the intervention that preserves the dignity of the student in crisis and protects the safety of everyone involved
- Ensure that throughout every phase of the intervention we are always providing the highest level of Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security
Crisis Prevention:
- Observe and interact with all students in various academic and classroom settings to build rapport with them and gain an understanding of what their deficits and behaviors are
- Meet with classroom staff and service providers to discuss proactive strategies for managing and preventing outbursts and/or challenging behaviors
- Observe staff interactions with the students and debrief with them on rapport building, behavior management, and crisis prevention
- Crisis Intervention:
- Utilize intervention techniques such as Collaborative & Proactive Solutions and Non-Violent Physical Crisis Intervention to deescalate students who are acting out verbally and/or physically and have become a danger to themselves or others
- Ensure that all students are treated with the highest level of Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security
- Teamwork Excellence Attitude Courage Heart
Intervention Specialist Data Collection and Analysis:
- Collect and review completed Intervention Worksheets daily
- Attend team meetings as requested
Requirements
- Must possess excellent writing and organizational skills.
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Certification in Nonviolent Crisis Intervention preferred
- Previous experience with crisis intervention with school age students required
- Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively withall levels of Management.
- Ability to work well under pressure and to prioritize tasks are essential
- Strong Interpersonal skills
- Detailed oriented individual
- Maintain confidentiality
- Effectively manages student crisis with dignity and respect
- Anticipate and meet deadlines, complete assignments with consistent accuracy
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook)
Intervention Specialist Working conditions:
- Must be able to multi-task and work in high pressure environment
Physical requirements:
- Must be able to physically lift children 50lbs and up
- Must be physically fit
Benefits
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
Qualification
High School or equivalent
Key skill Required
- Microsoft Office
- Analysis
- Communication
- Consistent
- Crisis Intervention
- Crisis Prevention
- Data Collection
- Development
- Effectiveness
- Insurance
- Interpersonal Skills
- Levels Of Management
- Life Insurance
- Management
- Organizational Skills
- Proactive
- Rapport
- Rapport Building
- Security
- Service Providers
- Teamwork
- Training
- Writing
