What are the responsibilities and job description for the Teacher position at FamilyForward?
Vision
FamilyForward leads the community in providing innovative solutions for advancing safer, healthier relationships for children and families.
Mission
FamilyForward moves vulnerable children in the direction of hope by delivering comprehensive therapeutic and educational services to support biological, foster, and adoptive families.
Core Values
This position provides psychoeducational treatment services to preschool-aged children, who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental problems, and who have experienced child abuse/neglect or family violence victimization. Work as a member of a team that provides a structured therapeutic milieu to promote remediation of developmental delays and resolution of childrens behavioral problems, which have resulted from their victimization or neglect.
Essential Job Functions
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and climb or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 45 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move no more than 45 pounds.* Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Additional Notes
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed; but are not to be seen as a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees so classified. Also, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.
FamilyForward leads the community in providing innovative solutions for advancing safer, healthier relationships for children and families.
Mission
FamilyForward moves vulnerable children in the direction of hope by delivering comprehensive therapeutic and educational services to support biological, foster, and adoptive families.
Core Values
- Out Front: We are leaders in the use of innovative tools and methods to get better results for the children and families we serve. We prefer to set the pace, testing new ideas and collecting data; always striving to make the biggest impact we can.
- Whole Hearted: We are tirelessly committed to the vision and mission of FamilyForward. We use our unique talents and expertise to serve our clients and community with compassion, acceptance, and respect.
- Rock Solid: We are responsible stewards of an organization with a long and proud history of service. Reliable, trustworthy, and hard-working, we do whatever it takes to get the job done, even when no one is watching.
This position provides psychoeducational treatment services to preschool-aged children, who are experiencing emotional, behavioral, and/or developmental problems, and who have experienced child abuse/neglect or family violence victimization. Work as a member of a team that provides a structured therapeutic milieu to promote remediation of developmental delays and resolution of childrens behavioral problems, which have resulted from their victimization or neglect.
Essential Job Functions
- Adhere to the ethical standards of FamilyForward and those of the specific profession.
- Maintain core values standards.
- Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team to maintain the daily therapeutic milieu.
- Take an active role in the daily functioning of the classroom
- Implement all classroom practices including, curriculum development, room arrangement, daily schedules, routines, and transitions.
- Create daily lesson plans which incorporate developmentally appropriate activities and NMT-informed therapeutic interventions.
- Prepare and maintain the classroom environment for the daily activities; ensure cleanliness and safety of the physical environment.
- Provide support to the Educational Therapist during group therapy.
- With support from the Program Supervisor, establish and monitor individual academic goals.
- Utilize Trauma Smart, ARC (Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency) Model, and NMT-informed interventions in the classroom.
- Ensure safety of children attending the program at all times, including the use of the safe room or restraint as trained and when necessary.
- Assist Educational Therapist in completing quarterly assessments, as needed.
- Assist Program Manager in completing NMT brain metrics for all children, as needed.
- Attend and actively participate in staff and classroom meetings, including clinical staffing of individual children.
- Participate in parent conferences, as needed.
- Implement individualized NMT recommendations with support from the therapist and educational therapist.
- Participate in regular communication with caregivers to support engagement and consistency between home and school.
- Regularly serve as a monitor on the vans to ensure safety during times of transportation of the children to and from school.
- Attend all trainings as required, including 12 hours of approved childcare credit hours.
- Must be actively involved in Performance Quality Improvement processes.
- Must complete 20 hours of in-service training annually.
- Complete annual First Aid/CPR training, training in Child Abuse and Neglect identification, and Mandated reporting and prevention training.
- Other duties and projects as assigned.
- Bachelors degree in early childhood education or child development required. Advanced degree in related field (social work, counseling) and credits hours in early childhood education considered.
- Experience in early childhood education preferred.
- Minimum three years experience required.
- Personal qualifications as required in Part 407: Licensing Standards for Day Care Centers.
- Experience in serving high needs populations; preferably working with children with challenging behaviors.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Knowledge of agency vision, mission, and services.
- Ability to meet the developmental and emotional needs of children.
- Ability to develop long-term, trust-based relationships with children, families, and caregivers.
- Ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, highly collaborative, and mutually respectful environment.
- Ability to solve problems in a fast-paced setting.
- Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing needs and time pressures.
- Ability to exercise discretion and sound judgement.
- Ability to disseminate information clearly and concisely.
- Ability to communicate professionally with coworkers, customers, donors, and vendors.
- Ability to create and sustain positive working relationships with all levels of the agency; internal and external.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, and climb or balance. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 45 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move no more than 45 pounds.* Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.
Additional Notes
The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed; but are not to be seen as a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees so classified. Also, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.
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