Behavioral Support Assistant

Person County Schools Person County Learning Academy (PCLA) - Roxboro, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

Person County Schools Person County Learning Academy (PCLA) - Roxboro, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

This job is also posted in North Carolina School Jobs , and Person County School District NC

Job : 5957309
Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
Posted: Oct 12, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)
Starting Date: Immediately

The Behavior Support Assistant provides direct behavioral, social-emotional, and mental health support to students experiencing behavioral challenges that interfere with academic and social success. The position supports implementation of evidence-based interventions, strengthens student connectedness, promotes positive school climate, and serves as a key member of the district's Behavior Support Team. Through proactive intervention, relationship-building, data collection, and collaboration with staff and families, the Behavior Support Assistant helps reduce behavioral incidents, decrease school removals, improve attendance, and increase access to instruction for students with behavioral and emotional needs.

• Assists teachers and school staff with the implementation of positive behavior supports, classroom management strategies, and behavioral interventions designed to improve student outcomes and reduce behavioral disruptions.
• Works directly with students to support social-emotional, behavioral, and mental health needs; addresses and improves aggressive, withdrawn, disruptive, or other inappropriate but correctable behaviors s may include correcting, redirecting, de-escalation, processing, responding to student elopement or other unsafe behaviors, and implementing approved crisis response procedures, including restraint when necessary and in accordance with district policy.
• Collaborates with behavior specialists, counselors, social workers, psychologists, teachers, administrators, and other school personnel to design, implement, and monitor positive behavior interventions and support plans.
• Assists behavior specialists and school teams with identifying behavioral triggers, collecting observational data, conducting classroom observations, and supporting the development, implementation, and monitoring of Behavior Intervention Plans (BIPs), behavior contracts, reinforcement systems, and other individualized interventions.
• Provides proactive behavioral interventions and supports that serve as alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices, including in-school suspension, out-of-school suspension, and classroom removals.
• Promotes a supportive, nurturing, inclusive, and flexible learning environment. This includes, but is not limited to:
• Constantly monitoring the safety and social-emotional well-being of students.
• Encouraging resilience, self-regulation, problem-solving, and positive self-esteem.
• Assisting students with developing social skills and increasing independence.
• Monitoring and recording student behavior and intervention effectiveness.
• Helping maintain discipline and encouraging positive behavioral choices.
• Assisting with crisis prevention, de-escalation, and conflict resolution.
• Performing classroom observations and collecting behavioral data.
• Providing individual, small-group, lunch groups, restorative circles, and social-emotional learning…