Behavior Health Assistant; BHA

Overview

Job Title:

Behavior Health Assistant (BHA)
Department:
College & Career Readiness
Supervisor:
Principal
Hours per week: 29
Posting note:
This posting closes at 3:00 pm on the date listed above.
Contact:
Darren Johnson, Principal, at  or dsjohnson.

• Track behaviors of general education students who have been identified by the SST through MTSS.
• Work with students identified by the SST who exhibit significant behavioral and/or emotional problems.
• Track student contracts for completion, signatures, etc.
• Work with identified students to promote positive behaviors and help decrease or de-escalate negative behaviors.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with teachers, social workers, school psychologists and other support personnel.
• Check on students in their classrooms or other areas to help them avoid potential problems and reinforce positive behavior.
• Provide direct behavioral support by prompting, redirecting, encouraging, and reinforcing positive behavior.
• Provide support for targeted students in transitional or less structured environments (i.e., hallways, lunchroom, assemblies, library, and recess).
• Assist and support students in crisis.
• Collect required data and share with the SST as needed.

• Other duties as assigned*

• Basic reading, writing and math skills.
• Ability to interact positively with students.
• Ability to assist students in a variety of situations that may arise.

• High school diploma or equivalent

• None

• Positive interaction of students, teachers, social workers, psychologists, support personnel and administrators.

• Supervision of students being supported.
• Supervision of a student in a service location outside the classroom setting for the purpose of de-escalation.

• Work setting is mainly in the classroom setting.
• May be asked to work inside and outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks.
• Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather.
• May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear.
• Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch.
• Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
• Must be able to stand and sit for long periods of time.

Note:

The list of essential and marginal functions and of physical requirements is not exhaustive and may be supplemented in accordance with the requirements of the job.