Classroom Behaviour Specialist

**Classroom Behaviour Specialist - Classroom Team - CASA Classrooms**
**Competition #22-121**

**About the Role**
CASA provides assessment and treatment services for up to 4,000 children, adolescents and their families in Alberta each year through a continuum ranging from consultation in community outreach settings to intensive treatment programs.

We do this by offering a wide range of assessment and treatment programs, as well as professional training and consultation. Our programs range in intensity from early identification, assessment and primary intervention, to intensive tertiary level treatment. All of our programs are evidence-based, community-based and trauma-informed.

CASA’s vision is a community where all children, youth and their families are provided timely mental health care and empowered to thrive.

In partnership with the Government of Alberta and several school boards, CASA is undertaking our most ambitious project yet: CASA Classrooms.

We recognize that mental health supports should be provided where they are needed by children and adolescents. That includes providing holistic, culturally safe wrap-around mental health services in their trusted school spaces. This project will bridge academic and mental health initiatives in several schools through the coordinated efforts of a classroom teacher, mental health therapist, community social worker, as well as a psychiatrist or CanReach Trained physician. This classroom-based team will provide individual therapy, group therapy and psychiatric support, as well as academic instruction that will imbed opportunities to use and practice mental health promoting skills and strategies.

Children and adolescents (grades 4-12) participating in CASA Classrooms will be supported in the classroom for approximately half of the school year, followed by another half-year of tapering treatment and transition. Programming and goals for these children will be individualized and will take into account the whole child, the family, and the community in which the classroom is located. Cognitive and behavioural skills will be taught to children as well as their families, with additional focus placed on transition and translation of skills across time and settings.

We also recognize that the translation of skills to everyday life is just as important as learning the skills in the first place. The classroom based mental health team will also provide coordinated support to the classroom, the parents/guardians/families of those participating in the project, as well as the community school where participants will return to after their stay in the CASA Classroom.

The Classroom Behavioural Specialist will:

- Develop and implement specialized individual treatment plans for children with learning disabilities, developmental delay, or executive dysfunction using a variety of treatment approaches with an emphasis on effective, evidence based behavioural principles.
- Be an active, contributing member of a multi-disciplinary clinical team to support assessment, treatment, behavioural analysis, therapeutic intervention and consultation.
- Conduct observations and report on students/patients while they are in the school setting.
- Recommend behavioural strategies for both home and school settings.
- Perform clinical interviews with caregivers and teaching staff to obtain background information.
- Provide hands on modelling and coaching to family members as determined by the MHT and guided by the treatment plan.
- Complete weekly phone contacts with families as assigned to review treatment strategies and gather updates for the treatment team.

The successful Classroom Behavioural Specialist will also possess the following experience, knowledge, skills and abilities:

- Strong assessment, treatment, case management and critical thinking skill.
- Effective communication and problem solving skills and ability to self-reflect as it relates to working within a demanding environment.
- Practical experience in behavioural analysis and modification, strategy development, coaching families and allied professionals.

Job Details
Union: HSAA
Classification: Classroom Behaviour Specialist
FTE: 0.90
Status: Permanent
Location: Edmonton and Area
Multi-Site: No
Minimum Salary: $32.36
Maximum Salary: $39.78
Hours per Shift: 7.25
Shifts per Week: Monday - Friday
Days Off: Saturday and Sunday

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, Social Work or Education.
- Minimum 3 years practical experience in an educational or children’s mental health treatment setting with a particular emphasis on dual diagnosis, learning disability, developmental delay, and executive dysfunction.
- Valid Class 5 operator’s license and access to reliable transportation.
- Strong assessment, treatment, case management and critical thinking skill.
- Practical experience in behavioural analysis and modification, strategy development, coaching families and allied professionals.
- Effective communicatio