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Southwest Ohio Council of Government (COG)
Behavior Interventionist - Kettering City Schools (Leave Coverage)
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What they do
A Mental Health Assistant provides basic care and assistance with daily activities to patients with mental illnesses or cognitive disabilities. Helps patients dress and eat, monitors patients' well-being, and restrains patients if they become physically violent. Works in hospitals or mental health care facilities.
$35,561 / year median in Ohio
+12% projected growth
Job Description
Behavior Interventionist
- Kettering City Schools (Leave Coverage) Southwest Ohio Council of Government (COG)
- 3.
- Kettering City Schools Leave Coverage
- December 2026
- March 2027 Full-time 5 days a week (Monday
- Friday).
Job Purpose:
The job of a behavior interventionist is to provide support, monitoring, and training using behavior management techniques, intervention strategies, coping skills, and problem solving for students with behavioral challenges.Essential Job Duties:
Assist staff in defining and measuring behavior; understanding principles of reinforcement; teaching new behavior; implementing strategies for decreasing behavior; and identifying antecedents. Design behavior intervention plans; address classroom organization; effective instruction; social skills instruction; positive behavioral support; and factors that affect effectiveness including social and emotional skills. Work with others on the team on issues such as: crisis intervention. learning and collaboration issues, and factors that can affect development and implementation of interventions. Provide recognition of a variety of student accomplishments and positive behaviors. Work cooperatively with program leadership to promote positive student behavior by providing professional development that targets research, strategies, and modeling of instructional practice that support the team in their implementation of positive behavior support in their learning environments. Create a daily schedule and structured environment that meets the needs of the students. Provide individual and small group instruction in the areas of positive behavior support, social emotional learning, and emotional regulation. Engage in on-going professional development to increase knowledge and skills of positive student behavior support for all students in their learning environment. Comply with safety policies, practices, and procedures. Demonstrate ability to plan and evaluate strategies for improving instruction. Takes all necessary and reasonable precautions to protect students and maintain equipment, materials and facilities. Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulation. Maintains a positive working relationship with all school personnel.- Communicates clearly both orally and in writing. Models appropriate dress, language, and conduct as a professional. Demonstrates regular and predictable attendance. Performs all duties in conformity to the adopted Board Policy.
- Performs in a professional manner.