Re-adaptation Officer

**INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL POSTING**

**Priority shall be given to qualified Cree beneficiaries**

**OPEN POSITION**

Re-Adaptation Officer

**LOCATION OF WORK**

Voyageur Memorial Elementary School

Mistissini

**NATURE OF WORK**

The principal and customary work consists of collaborating with the school multi-disciplinary team to carry out or to assist teachers to carry out re-education programs or re-adaptation programs with students experiencing social maladjustments, school-related problems, or problems with socio-emotional behaviour or learning difficulties.

**CHARACTERISTIC FUNCTIONS**

Evaluates the students behaviour brought to his attention by the first observations of the teachers which reveal a possibility of maladjustment at the socio-emotional level or at the normal learning process level;
Participates with the appropriate multidisciplinary team, in the study of cases so as to determine the necessary measures for re-education;
Participates in developing the measures designed to attain the objectives determined in an Individual Education Plan;
Recommends appropriate training and re-education programs and ensures that these programs are carried out;
Regroups the students who are identified as having common problems and meets these groups on a regular basis for specific activities;
Meets with students individually or in groups in order to determine the needs of the individual or group;
Meets certain students having specific problems in order to help their integration in a re-education group or their integration in a regular group;
Observes situations and works with students reacting to their environment and counsels them; applies intervention techniques conductive to calm and order; provides support to the teacher to ensure an environment conductive to learning in the classroom;
Counsels students who, following a sanction, must receive instruction in another room, determines with the students concerned and with the staff involved in intervention efforts for reintegration into the classroom;
Records observations and interventions, keeps files and prepares reports on a student’s situation;
Prepares the material and the development of the activities necessary for re-education, analyses and identifies the students behaviour in the re-education groups;
Establishes close contacts with the parents, teachers and other implicated professionals;
If needs, performs any other related duty;
**REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS**

Undergraduate university degree in a relevant field of study;
Three (3) years of experience in the special education sector;
Bilingual (English - French);
Knowledge of the Cree language is an asset;
To use a computer and the various software needed to perform his duties;
**EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS**
- Full-time permanent position;_

35 hrs/week.

**BEGINNING OF EMPLOYMENT**

As soon as possible.