Educational Behavioural Interventionist

**Position Title: Educational Behavioural Interventionist**

**Position Type: Contract, Part-time (15-20 hours) per week from Sept 2024 until June 2025.**

**Location: Duncan, BC**

**Wage: Competitive wages start between $21 - $25 per hour based on professional experience, education, and personality qualities.**

**Posting Summary**:
Do you LOVE HELPING STUDENTS learn and grow towards being all they can be? Pivot Point’s Community Classrooms offer a full-day educational experience in our staffed Learning Centres. As an alternative to large classrooms in public or private schools, our small group learning approach within non-traditional community settings creates opportunities for students to thrive. We support students with ASD and other Diverse Abilities within a safe and nurturing environment, where most class sizes range from 3 to 12 students with multiple staff (i.e., one Lead Instructor and potentially multiple Educational Behavioural Interventionist).

Are YOU comfortable with more challenging behaviours? Some of our students can exhibit extreme anger, intense language, and aggressive behaviours. Staying calm and safe, and knowing how to deescalate tough situations is essential.

Can YOU assist students requiring intensive support in the development of gross and fine motor skills by physical assistance and manipulations and reinforce social and personal skills to ensure the successful inclusion of students by demonstration? We’re looking for passionate and caring stable staff.

Can YOU assist students with appropriate forms of output (reading, writing, speech, drawing, movement, test taking, etc.) related to their comprehension of curriculum as based on student needs and/or Inclusion and Intervention Plans?

Can YOU work under the guidance and support of a Lead Instructor? Observe and discuss the progress of students with the Lead Instructor and other supportive professional staff to support personal program planning meetings? Keep anecdotal records of student’s daily activities when requested. Conduct oneself in a manner appropriate to a professional learning environment. Deal tactfully with staff, students, parents, and the public?

Pivot Point’s Community Classrooms offer a full-day educational experience in our staffed Learning Centres. As an alternative to large classrooms in public or private schools, our small group learning approach within non-traditional community settings creates opportunities for students to thrive. We support students with ASD and other Diverse Abilities within a safe and nurturing environment, where most class sizes range from 3 to 12 students with multiple staff (i.e., one lead instructor and potentially multiple Educational Behavioural Interventionist).

**Duties and Responsibilities**

Without limiting the generality of the purpose above, the Educational Behavioural Interventionist shall perform such duties and responsibilities as may be assigned including but not restricted to the following:

- Assist in the supervision of the classroom under the direction of the Lead Instructor. This may include, but is not limited to:

- Times when the Lead Instructor is working with individual students or groups of students located in the same classroom or outside the classroom,
- Times when students require individual attention,
- Times of group social interaction (eg the playground, lunch or rest areas),
- Times where recreational activities and community outings take the class or individual students outside of the classroom.
- Assist students requiring intensive support in the development of gross and fine motor skills by physical assistance and manipulations.
- Reinforce social and personal skills to ensure the successful inclusion of students.
- Under the supervision of the Lead Instructor, assist students with appropriate forms of output (reading, writing, speech, drawing, movement, test taking, etc.) related to their comprehension of curriculum as based on student needs and/or their Individual Education Plans and Lesson Plans.
- Based on the needs of individual students, may provide students with assistance in dressing, eating, toileting, medication management, transferring and transportation.
- Under the direct supervision of the Lead Instructor, assist students by serving as a facilitator of communication between the student and others including peers within the educational environment.
- Observe, collect data and discuss the progress of students with the Lead Instructor and other professional staff to support learning and growth.
- Be familiar with outcomes as set out in the IEP when applicable and expected records of various forms of evidence of work and progress.
- Exercise judgment in modifying student behaviour by re-direction and providing positive reinforcement within pre-established guidelines (Classroom Wide Positive Behaviour Support Plan).
- Possess and implement the personal emotional composure skills necessary to deal effectively with aggressive and disruptiv