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**Mount Prospect Academy

Paraeducator Job Description

Reports To: Dean of Students and Academic Director**

**Location: Keene, NH

Pay Rate up to $17.00hr**

Company Background

Welcome to Mount Prospect Academy (MPA), a rapidly growing alliance of nonprofit agencies founded in 2003, with the goal of helping struggling adolescents find a zest for life" and succeed in the business of life.

MPA has evolved to offer a variety of mental health support services to a diverse population of hard to treat and difficult to place adolescents. Our targeted services include home and community-based treatment, residential treatment programs, group homes, and special education schools. MPA is known for its ability to achieve successful outcomes with difficult-to-serve individuals throughout New England.

Mission:

MPAs mission is to provide a caring, safe therapeutic environment where students have the opportunity to grow and acquire the skills they need to reach their educational and social potential. We aim to develop trusting relationships with students and facilitate experiences that promote their ability to self-regulate; manage thoughts and feelings; and develop feelings of safety, confidence, and competency.

Academic Services:

Academic instruction and internship experiences are core elements of Mount Prospect Academys holistic treatment philosophy. We specialize in working with difficult-to-serve youth who have not succeeded, academically or behaviorally, in a more traditional academic setting.

We provide full school days at MPAs academic programs. Our teachers provide competency-based instruction, and they employ innovative strategies to help non-traditional students learn. We offer academic support services for individualized learning, and our students have full access to the general education curriculum, as outlined in the New Hampshire curriculum standards.

Summary and Responsibilities:

The Paraeducator will work closely with the Education Team to ensure the safety and well-being of the students while participating in the education program.

The Paraeducator functions as part of the academic and treatment team and is responsible for assisting the educators and providing supervision of students while in school.

The Paraeducator will provide supported instruction and assessment to students as outlined/assigned by the teacher in support of the assigned academic coursework or Individual Education Plan (IEP) needs.

Provide supportive supervision and participation to class activities including physical education, art, etc.

Assist with "wake-up" duties to the assigned residential program if needed.

Assist with behavioral interventions within the classroom as needed modeling and using ARC principles

Assist with substitute lessons as assigned by the teacher and/or Dean of Students as needed.

Maintain appropriate documentation that may be assigned by the supervisor such as attendance, incident reports, data entry, daily academic report etc.

Assist with monitoring and supervising transitional times, lunch, school beginning and ending activities for student accountability.

Assisting with community-based activities and appointments related to students needs as assigned.

Provide aid as requested by the Dean of Students or Academic Director in daily routines.

Participation in mandated and assigned professional training's offered in the program.

Provide transportation with school vehicle for students/teacher activities as needed

Participate in student meetings (such as IEP's and ITP's) as assigned by the Dean of Students or Academic Director.

Participate in staff meetings as required.

Maintain students' confidentiality at all times and report all pertinent information to supervisor.

Pursue appropriate channels of communication

Understand the administrative structure, chain of comman and program philosophy of MPA.

Appropriately represent Mount Prospect Academy to the community, students' parents and outside agencies.