Social Skills Specialist: Bolton Primary School
Listed on 2026-06-10
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Education / Teaching
Special Needs / Learning Disabilities, Psychology -
Social Work
Psychology
Social Skills Specialist – Bolton Primary School
Position Type: Licensed / Licensed
Date Posted: 6/5/2026
Location: Special Education
Date Available: August 2026
Closing Date: 06/19/2026
Title: Social Skills Specialist, Therapeutic School
Location: Bolton Primary School, 5933 Holmes St, West Linn, OR 97068
Schedule: 8 hours per day / 5 days per week / 190-day Instructional Calendar
School Year: 2026-27
About the program: Our therapeutic schools programs provide therapy, social-emotional support, and communication services as part of a strong educational experience for students. By creating individual support plans based on each student's specific needs and goals, we help students and their families build the skills they need to move to a less restrictive school setting when they are ready. Close collaboration with families, school districts, and other service providers ensures supports are coordinated and centered on each child.
We encourage and support students, families, staff, and community partners to do their best. By recognizing different learning styles, focusing on transition skills, and offering different diploma options, Heron Creek helps students graduate prepared for life beyond school.
About this position: The Social Skills Specialist instructs and provides social and behavioral supports to students whose significant social, emotional, and behavioral challenges severely impede their educational progress. The Specialist participates on the therapeutic team to functionally assess the needs of each child. The Specialist collaborates with the team on the development of individualized behavior support plans, and the integration of special education and social/emotional skills training services.
The Specialist assists the classroom team in implementing skill development strategies designed to facilitate learning. The Specialist provides training and support to families including case management and community support.
- Applies principles of human development, learning, and behavior, to functionally assess students' social-emotional and behavioral needs.
- Collaborates with the therapeutic team to develop specially designed social skills and behavior intervention plans, which are integrated into the daily instructional experience for each child.
- Participates in the therapeutic team to plan for the needs of each child and family.
- Creates a comprehensive plan and delivers instruction in social skills.
- Contributes to team development using a solution-based focus, seeking and using the expertise and perspectives of other team members to develop common understandings and agreements.
- Works with students on an individual and group basis, to provide skills training consistent with the students' IEPs and Behavior Support Plans.
- Implements specially designed behavior intervention plans, coordinating with the classroom team, and collaborating with related service staff.
- Utilizes Crisis Prevention and Intervention strategies including NCI.
- Communicates with students using language structure, tone, and body language that promotes positive student behavior, conflict resolution, problem solving, effective management of power struggles, and applies proactive strategies for management of escalating behavior.
- Monitors and records student progress.
- Assists with transition activities related to students' transition to their next educational placement, including return to the student's local district or discharge from the program.
- Provides group activities and supervision for children during parent groups, toward a specific outcome. Provides information to the team on family dynamics, needs of the children in the family, and observational data regarding the child.
- Maintains a safe, therapeutic environment for students.
- Uses technology to produce and manage student information.
- Qualifies as a mental health professional (QMHP) per state statute or Licensed Clinical Social Worker or Master of Social Work or Licensed Professional Counselor, or ability to obtain such license.
- Demonstrated ability to provide child and family centered social-emotional supports.
- Ability to assess and teach developmentally relevant social…
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