Description
Hawthorn Academy, a free charter school located in South Jordan and West Jordan, Utah, is now accepting applications for a full-time Behavior Support Technician, 32 hours per week, for the current 2025-2026 school year.
The Behavior Specialist is responsible for overseeing the behavioral needs or students with special education services at both campuses. They will participate in the Child Find process and help develop behavior plans for students. The behavior specialist will oversee the implementation of Behavior Intervention Plans and collect data. The behavior specialist will also serve as a behavior coach for teachers when a need for improved classroom management or individual behavior support is identified.
Hawthorn Academy believes that our primary mission is three-fold; 1) to engender a true “love of learning” in our students, 2) to address the needs of the “whole child”, and 3) to provide a world-class educational foundation that prepares students for life. Our teaching methodologies and Program of Instruction are geared towards achieving this three-fold mission. The framework for our Comprehensive Program of Instruction is built around the selection of best-in-class curriculum, from respected and proven publishers as a teaching methodology that serves as an overlay to our curriculum. Our curriculum is also designed to be compliant with the Utah State Core Curriculum.
The Behavior Support Technician (BST) is a district-level hourly classified position that will involve supporting students with the most severe behavior challenges. BSTs will work under the immediate direction of special education behavior specialists and report to the Special Education Director as their formal supervisors. BSTs will be required to intervene directly with students with severe behavior challenges, collect, manage, and interpret data on student behavior, and support the implementation of behavior interventions/plans. BSTs will be required to participate in regular professional development and demonstrate competence in learned technical skills. Professional learning may include participation in on-line behavior management modules, explicit training with specialists and cooperating university personnel, and ongoing embedded training experiences, including regular fidelity probes. Attendance and physical presence are required and is an essential function of this position. Essential Functions ? Implement behavior strategies and/or provide one-to-one or small group instruction to students with challenging behaviors (i.e., physical aggression, self-harm, elopement, destruction of property, other dangerous behavior) ? Deliver direct instruction to students in the special education setting. ? Collect data on behavior and/or social skills ? Provide emergency support to students in crisis ? Participate in regular professional development and embedded training including MANDT training ? Required to attend regularly scheduled training sessions held by district supervisors ? Must implement and monitor behavior interventions as directed for application in all educational settings ? Must be able to work flexible hours based on student needs ? Must take directions well and be able to work within specific guidelines. ? Must be able to learn, describe and apply a variety of learned behavior support and management techniques based on applied behavior analysis (proactive behavior, de-escalation strategies, physical interventions) ? Must be able to apply acquired knowledge and skills consistently and with fidelity ? Must be able to follow directives from specialists/administrators ? Must demonstrate regular positive interactions with students and school staff under all circumstances ? Must implement and monitor academic and behavior interventions as directed for application in all educational setting
Non-Essential Functions ? Makes decisions concerning the best way to accomplish assigned tasks. ? Make suggestions but must be willing to follow directions. Concerns for safety of self and others. ? Have positive interaction with students, special education teachers, teachers, administrators, support staff and supervisors.
? Other duties as assigned
Working Environment ? Work setting is mainly in the classroom setting. ? May be asked to work inside and outside the building to accomplish assigned tasks. ? Working conditions can be in hot and cold weather. ? May experience stress from disruptive students and/or groups of students.
Physical Requirements Not limited to the following: ? While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and/or hear. Frequently required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, and crouch. Occasionally required to use hands to handle or feel and must occasionally climb or balance. ? Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception. ? Must be able to stand or sit for long periods of time ? Must be able to lift at least 50 pounds.
Hawthorn Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer.