Job Description

Description

Are you interested in making a life-saving difference for children and adolescents?

Interested in joining the first therapeutic program for unaccompanied girls in Arizona?

If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team!

Salary Range: $56,000-$66,000/yr

Devereux will provide extremely high-quality, trauma-informed, culturally-competent residential and educational services for children, with intense supports for their social and emotional health. Each child\xe2\x80\x99s care is individualized to their needs, with a team of professionals providing consistent support through individual assessment and counseling, group counseling, medical and mental health services, behavior management, education and vocational services, and safety planning. Devereux\xe2\x80\x99s ultimate goal is to ensure every child receives best-in-class services designed specifically to address the traumas they have sustained during, and often before, their migration journey as well as to help them connect either to shelter or foster care, or to their sponsor.

Reporting to the Program Director, the Bilingual Certified Teacher provides instruction in the areas of mathematics, language arts, science and social studies. You will provide an initial and final report for the child while focusing on academic intervention and enrichment of the individuals in the program.

What Devereux Will Offer You:

• ASCEND \xe2\x80\x93 the first career accelerator program exclusively designed to give behavioral healthcare workers \xe2\x80\x93 the career guidance, one-on-one coaching, skills and financial assistance you need to reach your full potential. This program includes 100% of tuition covered (up to $15k annually for undergraduate and $25k annually for graduate) and student loan repayment, among other benefits!
• We offer generous time off based on accrual and years of service. Employees with up to 2 years of service are eligible to accrue up to 24 days per TOB year (days increase with years of service). In addition, our direct care employees can elect to \xe2\x80\x9csell\xe2\x80\x9d a portion of their TOB to receive enhanced salary.
• Our employees can accrue up to 64 HML hours per year, starting on the first day of employment. In addition, employees can carry over any unused HML hours and double anything unused over 40 hours to build a bank of health medical leave.
• A Servant Leadership culture, where employees feel welcomed, valued and empowered to voice ideas that will benefit the individuals and families we serve.
• Multi-disciplinary team setting with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing applied behavior analysis and positive behavior supports.
• Best available, highest quality, low-cost benefit options \xe2\x80\x93 learn more at benefits.devereux.org.

Keywords: Teacher, Spanish speaking, SPED, school, education, middle school, elementary, high school, teaching, day school, private school, alternative school, bilingual, Spanish, ESL, TESOL

Qualifications

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Education or relevant field required, Master\xe2\x80\x99s degree preferred.
• Must have work experience in a multi-grade setting and meet Arizona licensing/certification requirements for teaching.
• Teaching English as a Second Language/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages certification or other appropriate accrediting body.
• Must be bilingual in English and Spanish.
• Must be empathetic and have a team approach to care for our individuals.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Additionally:

• Fully immunized/vaccinated (or have a medical/religious exemption) for Varicella, MMR, TdAp, Influenza & COVID-19 prior to starting.
• Must be 21 years of age or older (per licensing standards)
• Valid Arizona Driver\'s License & pass DMV 39-month history check
• Current AZ Fingerprint Clearance Card with no restrictions (or eligibility to obtain with no restrictions)
• Pre-employment Physical and Job Demand Assessment (if applicable)
• Drug test within 24hrs of offer w/ negative results
• Ability to attend full time, paid, New Hire Orientation Monday - Friday 8:30am-5:00pm
• Devereux requires all individuals interviewing for a position involving contact with children to complete The Diana Screen, a screening that assesses a candidate\xe2\x80\x99s understanding of appropriate boundaries between adults and children

Devereux has a zero-tolerance policy for abuse and maintains policies and procedures to systematically reduce the risk of abuse to occur in our organization. Devereux fosters a culture of reporting abuse, and will cooperate with the authorities to the fullest extent possible.

Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health