Description

2,000 sign on bonus

Are you looking for an opportunity to be a Teacher in an environment with low student-teacher ratios and the ability to make a significant impact on student outcomes? Do you want to join a multi-disciplinary team with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing positive behavior supports?

If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team! Devereux Brandywine School, located in Glenmoore, PA is searching for a PA Certified Teacher!

Being a Certified Teacher at Devereux has its Advantages

You will work with other dedicated professionals who share your passion for helping individuals in need.

You will be offered:

• Specialized training opportunities including Positive Behaviour Intervention Supports, Aimsweb Progress monitoring, Safe & Positive Approaches and IEP Writer
• Growth and Development Opportunities include Act 48 Credits and Tuition Reimbursment for employees seeking to expand their expertise
• We offer opportunities to servce on school committees, campus comitees and center wide opportunities that provide collegual work with other disciplines
• The School setting offers a structured milieu where support is needed for students both academically and behaviorally.
• Working in an educational setting can offer opportunities to work with residential staff, clinical staff, nurses and many other onsite staff. Frequent cisits from outside agencies and school districts offer multiple networking opportunities

- BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY AFTER 30 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT (1st day of the 1st pay period after 30 days).

This is a 41 week position specializing in evidence-based practices, assessments, and interventions; lesson planning and instructional delivery for students with disabilities.

Devereux Pennsylvania Children's Services (DPACS) center serves children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral, emotional and psychiatric challenges and disorders. Located in West Chester and Malvern Pennsylvania, services provided include psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF), residential treatment (RTF), acute inpatient psychiatric hospital (AIP), assessment services, community-based mental health services, community-based employment training and social skills training, and approved private school educational services to male and female children and adolescents (6-21 years of age) with diagnoses of intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, concomitant psychiatric and behavioral challenges often associated with experiencing some level of trauma in their lives. A primary focus throughout the program is the philosophy of Program-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention and Support (PW-PBIS), a program-wide system of care that promotes and rewards positive behaviors, and prevents negative behaviors, to create safe, supportive living environments. Each year, more than 1,000 children and adolescents receive specialized care, in the environment best suited to the unique challenges they face, all with the goal of providing each child with the academic, social, emotional and life skills needed to flourish in their home community

Devereux is committed to the health and safety of our staff. All Devereux centers have formal infectious-disease and emergency-management plans tailored to specifically address the unique aspects of communicable disease prevention including COVID-19.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) COVID-19 vaccine mandate requires staff without an approved medical or religious exemption to be fully vaccinated to be employed in this program. If you are fully vaccinated, you will need to provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination or have an approved medical or religious exemption prior to starting.

*Devereux requires all individuals interviewing for a position involving contact with children to complete The Diana Screen, a screening that assesses a candidate's understanding of appropriate boundaries between adults and children.

Keywords: special education teacher, SPED, teacher, school, education, behavioral health, children, middle school, elementary, high school, teaching

Qualifications

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree and an active Instructional I or II Pennsylvania teacher certification or eligible for Pennsylvania Instructional I certification.

EXPERIENCE: Successful teachingexperience working with students with emotional and behavioral challenges, experience in unit and lesson planning, experience in writing and implementing legally defensible IEPs, experiencing in administration of assessments and using data informed decision making.

Posted Date 2 months ago (6/14/2022 12:17 PM)

Requisition ID 2022-24747

Category Education

Position Type Full-Time