Are you looking for a supportive teaching environment with low student-teacher ratios and the ability to make a significant impact on student outcomes? Do you want to join a multi-disciplinary team with a strengths-based approach, emphasizing positive behavior supports?
If you answered YES, then consider joining our Devereux Advanced Behavioral Health team! Our private schools in Chester County, Pa are looking for Special Education Teachers to support adolescents who have an autism or IDD diagnosis, or adolescents with emotional and behavioral needs.
Being a Special Education Teacher at Devereux has its Advantages!
We offer:
- Specialized training opportunities including Positive Behavior Intervention Supports, Aimsweb Progress monitoring, Safe & Positive Approaches and IEP Writer.
- Growth and Development Opportunities include Act 48 Credits and Tuition Reimbursement for employees seeking to expand their expertise.
- A school setting that offers a structured milieu where support is needed for students both academically and behaviorally.
- Working in an educational setting can offer opportunities to work with residential staff, clinical staff, nurses and many other on-site staff.
- BENEFIT ELIGIBILITY AFTER 30 DAYS OF EMPLOYMENT (1st day of the 1st pay period after 30 days).
- $2,000 sign on bonus for external applicants
- THE ABILITY TO BECOME EMERGENCY CERTIFIED EVEN IF YOU’VE CONSIDERED BECOMING A TEACHER BUT YOU AREN’T AN EDUCATION MAJOR
Devereux’s Approved Private Schools offer high quality, innovative special education programs that work in tandem with families and school districts to ensure that students can return to their local schools and communities with the tools they will need to succeed. Children and young adults may come to Devereux as a day student, or as a part of residential treatment. Each student has an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP), which outlines goals for skill development and the best strategies by which the student can reach his/her goals. A multi-disciplinary team, including the individual’s parent(s) or guardian, regularly reviews the plan to discuss challenges, progress and adjustments to goals as appropriate. The Brandywine School offer education curriculum to children functioning at all grade levels. A multi-sensory educational strategy is used at all schools, employing traditional instruction, hands-on and independent learning, as well as technology, to individualize a student’s progress in all academic areas, particularly math and reading. The transition from school to career, and all of the necessary interrelated skills, are a main focus of the school program.
Devereux Pennsylvania Children’s Services (DPACS) serves children, adolescents and young adults with autism spectrum disorders, intellectual and developmental disabilities, behavioral, emotional and psychiatric challenges and disorders. Located in West Chester and Malvern Pennsylvania, services provided include psychiatric residential treatment (PRTF), residential treatment (RTF), acute inpatient psychiatric hospital (AIP), assessment services, community-based mental health services, community-based employment training and social skills training, and approved private school educational services to male and female children and adolescents (6-21 years of age) with diagnoses of intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, concomitant psychiatric and behavioral challenges often associated with experiencing some level of trauma in their lives.
Devereux requires all individuals interviewing for a position involving contact with children to complete The Diana Screen, a screening that assesses a candidate’s understanding of appropriate boundaries between adults and children.
EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree and an active Special Education Instructional I or II Pennsylvania teacher certification or eligible for Pennsylvania Special Education Instructional I certification. Emergency Certification available.
EXPERIENCE: Special Education Teacher experience preferred.
