Intervention Specialist

General Purpose:

A Student Intervention Specialist is responsible to BlockParent.org and works under the direct supervision of the designated BlockParent.org manager and the school-site Principal. The Student Intervention Specialist is responsible for supporting youth and staff at selected school sites.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Oversee and supervise the conduct, safety, and welfare of children within a cafeteria, lunchroom, playground, or other areas as assigned.
• Enforce campus rules and regulations; inform students of acceptable school behavior.
• Assist in planning, organizing, and conducting playground and/or noon activities.
• Intercede in potential problem situations between students; provide assistance to staff in discipline of students and prepare referrals as necessary.
• Patrol and supervise assigned areas of campus, assuring students are safe, orderly and within supervised areas.
• Inspect buildings, restrooms, playgrounds, or other facilities for possible hazards to the safety and welfare of children and reports such hazards to appropriate authority.
• Escort students to and from administration offices as necessary for inappropriate behavior issues; retrieve students as requested by administrators; escort ill or injured students to school health office as necessary.
• Assure non-students on campus are authorized visitors; monitor for proper identification and/or direct visitors to the office prior to going to a classroom or any other location on the school grounds.
• Communicate with students, administrators and staff concerning student behavior and assigned activities; report incidents involving students to school administrators and complete required accident or incident forms.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Employment Eligibility

  • Successful candidate must provide proof of employment eligibility and verification of legal right to work in the United States in compliance with the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

• Education

  • A Bachelor of Arts degree in a job-related area is preferred.
  • A High School diploma or GED is required.

• Soft Skills

  • Basic methods of individual and group supervision.
  • Oral and written communication skills.
  • Interpersonal skills using tact, patience, and courtesy.
  • Usage of proper oral and written English, Spanish or target language.
  • Cross cultural awareness and sensitivity.
  • Operation of a computer and assigned software.
  • Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with others.
  • Demonstrate patience and a receptive attitude towards children.
  • Determine appropriate action within clearly defined guidelines.
  • Learn district and school policies related to the conduct, safety, and welfare of pupils in assigned areas.
  • Maintain regular attendance.

Working Conditions:

• Environment

  • Indoor/Outdoor.
  • Seasonal heat and/or cold weather conditions.

• Physical Requirements

  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by the Intervention Specialist to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

  • The usual and customary methods of performing the job's functions requires the following physical demands: occasional lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling, some climbing and balancing, some stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, and handling.
  • Manual dexterity to operate a telephone and enter data into a computer.
  • Facility to sit at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations for extended periods of time with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Facility to see and read, with or without visual aids, laws and codes, rules, policies and other printed matter, and computer screens and printouts with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Facility to hear and understand speech at normal room levels and to hear and understand speech on the telephone with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • Facility to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal conversations, in training sessions, and other meetings with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • When applicable, facility to determine and differentiate colors with or without reasonable accommodation.
  • When applicable, facility to drive an automobile or to arrange a consistent method of transportation.