Special Education Teacher Supervisor

Description

$5,000 Sign on Bonus for External Applicants!

The Baby Fold/Hammitt Schools has been successfully wrapping services around children and families since 1902, offering life-critical support such as foster care, special education, early childhood programming, and post-adoption support. The Baby Fold is a unique resources with a strong and enduring heritage. We care for our youngest citizens so they can be blessed with loving homes, stable lives, and the futures they deserve.

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Life & Long Term Disability
• Short Term Disability
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Plan
• Paid Personal time, Sick time, and Paid Holidays
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program
• Headspace Care - coaching, therapy, & psychiatry
• Paytient - line of credit for medical, mental health, & veterinary services
• Candidly - student loan navigation support
• Mentorship, advancement, and professional development opportunities

The Special Education Teacher Supervisor works collaboratively with the school staff to ensure development and implementation of best practice social/behavioral, communication, and instructional strategies within the Challenges classrooms. Serves as a clinical leader in developing instructional and behavioral interventions in classrooms. Serves in a supervisory and mentoring capacity with Challenges classroom staff to develop and implement best practices in all aspects of service delivery.

Serves as part of a key leadership team in the enhancement and expansion of autism education and support services within Hammitt School programs.

Hammitt School on Oglesby, 612 Oglesby Ave, Normal, IL

Mon-Fri , school day schedule generally 8a
-3:30p (2:30p during summer school), 37.5 + hrs/week paid over applicable breaks per schedule

$5,000 sign-on bonus for external candidates, $58,000 - $75,000/year based on experience and certifications

1. Personnel Management: Responsible for assigned staff, including employment, training, supervision, support, and performance feedback, including timely completion performance evaluations. Maintains staff accountability for lesson plans, data and analysis and report writing.

2. Program Management:

• a. Reviews referrals and school record information with staff, including observations of referred students.
• b. Assists with student pre-placement visits to the Challenges program.
• c. Assists assigned casework staff in transition planning for students and coordinating with relevant internal and external service providers prior to discharge to another placement.
• d. Coordinates with psychologist and nursing staff for medical/psychiatric case management, particularly for students requiring in-patient psychiatric care or prescription medications as part of their educational program.
• e. Coordinates with Speech and Language Therapist and classroom staff to insure integration of language development and communication strategies into daily classroom operation.
• f. Provides assistance for community-based activities and integration into activities in other classrooms for Challenges students.
• g. Assists with classroom coverage, as needed and coordinate staff coverage issues.
• h. Communicates and coordinates with family advocates or school counselors and parents to share information and address concerns, as needed.
• i. Determines and implements appropriate classroom configuration of both students and staff.
• j. Works with building principal to develop the annual budget for the assigned program(s), monitoring and approving expenditures in accordance with program needs and priorities.

3. Professional Leadership:

• a. Models the agency’s core values of respect, integrity, teamwork, excellence, stewardship and diversity in all activities and interactions.
• b. Serves as a member of a key leadership team for the enhancement, collaborative planning, and expansion of autism education and support services within Hammitt School programs.
• c. Exercises professional leadership by keeping abreast of current trends and developments in special education, particularly as it relates to the field of…