Special Education Teacher

at  Prime Home Developmental Disabilities Services

Job Title: Special Education Teacher
Company: Prime Home DDS, Inc.
Location: Papillion, NE
Type: Full-Time Employment
Benefits: Competitive Compensation, Career Advancement Opportunities, Great Work Environment

GENERAL SUMMARY:

Prime Home DDS, Inc. is looking for a dynamic Special Education Teacher to join our team. As a member of our team, you will be working with students facing academic or physical challenges. Your primary objective will be to identify their unique educational needs and facilitate their long-term academic success. The ideal candidate should possess qualities of compassion, creativity, and dedication towards fostering student growth. The Special Education Teacher, is a person who will assist in leading the Education Services Program by planning, implementing, coordinating and evaluating the various offerings at Prime Home DDS, Inc.
Direct Reports: Educational Service Director
Salary Range: $28-32 per hour

EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree with coursework in Education, Business or Social Science is preferred.
• Teaching certificate in the State of Nebraska
• Experience working in an education and or community-based program for persons with developmental disabilities.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• Effectively assess an individual’s educational program and plan special interventions for medical, nutritional, or therapeutic needs as necessary.
• Effectively use oral/written communications to coordinate education services, plan and allocate resources, supervising, staff training, prepare and monitor budgets, and utilize thorough decision-making processes.
• utilizing sound decision making processes and formulating, implementing, and monitoring staff goals and objectives to meet the students IEP Goals.
• Formulate, implement, and monitor goals and objectives to execute each students Individual Education Program (IEP) goals.
• Utilize normalization principles, least restrictive alternative concepts, ISP’s, basic behavior management, programming, and medications administration monitoring. Qualifications:

• In cooperation with the Educational Service Director, provide a general assessment of current and future Education Services’ needs.
• Provide a continuum of Education Services training and services for population served.
• Consistently comply with all County, State and Federal rules and regulations as applied to Education Services.
• Participate actively in internal and external evaluations and investigations of the programs including internal systems review and CPS/APS Abuse/Neglect investigations.
• Participate actively in student intake to gain additional detailed knowledge of the unique needs of each person.
• Encourage the involvement of students and students’ representatives in individual program planning and the planning and monitoring of Education Services.
• Provide for the assurance of human and legal rights of all people in Services programs through compliance with all applicable legal mandates.
• Ensure that all staff is trained in the basic competencies required to fulfill the requirements of their positions and are involved in ongoing training to continually improve and upgrade services.
• Effectively coordinate the education services to ensure that students IEP goals and objectives are met in a timely fashion.
• Monitor quality of services provided including client programs, client financial systems, facility issues, safety programs and procedures, and other agency systems.
• Work cooperatively with other service providers in effectively interfacing to ensure quality service delivery for all clients and provide efficient administrative support for managers, supervisors and education support professionals.
• Inform the Educational Service Director of important issues concerning the clients and Education Services operations.