Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
Minimum qualifications of a high school diploma (or general education degree (GED)) and three to five years’ relevant field experience or a bachelor’s degree in education, speech language pathology or related human services or social services field and three years’ relevant field experience.
Competencies:
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Makes self-available to parents and provides regular feedback of children’s participation and progress
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Supports and explains reasoning for decisions.
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Listens and gets clarification.
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Responds well to questions and provides concise answers.
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Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner.
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Develops alternative solutions.
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Uses time efficiently.
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Exhibits objectively and openness to other’s views.
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Supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
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Develops personal leadership skills.
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Fosters quality in others, improves processes, products, and services.
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Understands and follows all licensing and governing regulations
Language Skills:
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.
Mathematical Skills:
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability:
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:
Valid Arkansas Driver's License
High School Diploma, GED or Bachelor’s Degree
Other Skills and Abilities:
Ability to lift and transfer students
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands/fingers/arms to handle, feel, reach, lift, assist and hold. The employee is frequently required to stand and walk. The employee is frequently required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Hearing abilities are also a requirement of this job.
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.