Walker seeks a Direct Care Supervisor for their Needham campus to work as part of the leadership team for a 766-approved special education school serving day and residential students with significant emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges. Collaborate with an Educational Coordinator to oversee between two and five classrooms ensuring the academic and social/emotional needs of students are being met. Directly supervise school program staff (direct care counselors). Provide proactive support as well as daily crisis intervention when needed. Manage and support residential students during vacation days/weeks and holidays, including but not limited to running campus, planning engaging student-focused activities, supporting off-grounds trips and coordinating staffing support. Committed to a child centered, family focused, culturally competent care and strengths-based treatment.

Education and Licensure

Required: Valid US Driver's License and ability to transport children into the community

Preferred: Bachelor's degree in related field

Experience

Required: At least one year of prior experience working with children with complex social, emotional, and behavioral challenges Preferred: Supervisor experience in a therapeutic setting

Abilities

Required: Ability to be flexible and work collaboratively, respond to emergency situations quickly and safely, work in a stressful and fast paced environment, must understand child development and the impact of emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities, understand issues of confidentiality, and be receptive to supervision and professional development.

Required: Ability to work and stand for extended period of time. Job may require bending, stooping, stretching, and lifting. Job requires the ability to perform therapeutic physical intervention as needed.

Essential functions:

1. Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to further the emotional, behavioral, and educational development of children.
2. Apply Walker's model of childcare, including Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI), which requires physical restraint, when necessary, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution Focused Therapy, cooperative group games, and behavioral support.
3. Implement treatment protocol and appropriate therapeutic strategies established in children's treatment plans, IEPs, and individual support plans.
4. Meet children's physical and emotional needs and provide a safe and therapeutic environment for children.
5. Participate fully in the administrative functions of teaching and childcare, including attending and participating in required meetings, completing assigned report writing tasks in a timely manner, and actively communicating with families and members of the students' multidisciplinary team and ensuring school logs and points are completed by classrooms.
6. Actively participate in supervision and professional development opportunities offered at Walker.
7. Complete the DESE spreadsheet for restraint submission.
8. Supervise school vacation periods and holidays, including managing the daily scheduling and ensuring therapeutic recreational programming occur as well as work with Res Ed leadership to ensure all staffing needs are met during vacation weeks and school vacation days.
9. Directly manage the performance of assigned milieu staff, including individual and group supervision and staff evaluations.
10. Provide family contact as needed.
11. Provided proactive support and daily crisis intervention.
12. Work with day program leadership team to ensure smooth running of classrooms and milieu during school program by placing self proactively in classrooms and providing coaching/observations to classroom teams.
13. Oversee the supervision of a wake-up team on the residence and assure that medications are administered, routines are completed, and students arrive to school on time by providing consistent (e.g., 1x week) observation/modeling on the residential houses.
14. Lead field trips during the summer program as well as during the traditional school year, assuring that a plan is in place, all needed supplies are accounted for (e.g., lunch, directions) and medication is administered as appropriate.
15. Support school elective program, intramural activities, and recess
16. Facilitate communication across shifts (i.e. residential supervisors and staff, overnight supervisors and staff, etc.
17. Attend Treatment Update meetings, Multi-disciplinary team meetings, and other assigned meetings for students in the supervised classrooms. Provide any necessary reports for meetings.
18. Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures.
19. All other duties as assigned.

Supervision to be received: Directly responsible to and supervised by the Assistant Director of Educational Milieu Services

Supervision to be exercised: Three to four direct care counselors and oversight of three to four classroom teams (in conjunction with an educational coordinator)