Teacher Bachelor NE

SUMMARY:
This is a contracted professional position responsible for the instruction of one or more subjects to K-12 school aged minors.  The UMP Summer Teacher is responsible for conducting developmentally appropriate activities for children according to the Unaccompanied Minors Program regulatory bodies guidelines and licensing requirements.  Incumbent in this position must demonstrate sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics.

Essential Job Functions:
Service Delivery & Care Tasks
• Oversees, plans, and manages the education, care, safety and well-being of each child.
• Develops daily lesson plans and utilizes strategies according to funding source requirements which address children’s individual needs based on meaningful anecdotes and scaffolding techniques.
• Arranges the classroom-learning environment according to regulatory bodies guidelines.
• Promotes and maintains universal health and safety precautions.
• Maintains a clean and sanitary environment including the classroom.
• Demonstrates regular attendance and punctuality.

Reporting & Compliance Tasks
• Completes and records assessments for children according to regulatory bodies guidelines.
•  Completes children Progress Reports
• Reports any suspected child abuse and neglect immediately pursuant to Florida law.
• Makes timely and accurate records and reports to supervisor of any accidents or unusual incidents.
• Adheres to all regulatory guidelines including agency policy and procedures, Program guidelines and practices any applicable accreditation guidelines.

Additional Duties:
• Ensures timely and accurate data entry in all required databases.
• Performs assigned duties consistently in an efficient, professional and courteous manner.
• Adheres to all Catholic Charities Policies and Procedures including maintaining a sufficient knowledge and understanding of those policies.
• Maintains an appropriate level of professionalism at all times with supervisors, staff and volunteers.
• Maintains confidentiality where appropriate.
• Develops and maintains constructive and cooperative working relationships with others.
• Attends professional meetings, conferences, and/or workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Performs all other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Physical Demands:
The following physical demands are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive:
• Regular to frequent requirement, and as needed, to lift children (up to 50 lbs.), including bending, stooping, stretching, walking, squatting, pushing, pulling, kneeling, crawling, sitting; Incumbent is frequently required to use hands and fingers to handle, feel and reach with hands and arms; Incumbent must be able to detect unsafe situations by sight or sound and must be able to move quickly to intervene in unsafe situations; Incumbent must be able to see and hear.

Environment Demands:
The work is in a classroom setting. The following environmental demands are representative of those that must be met by an Incumbent to successfully perform the essential functions of the job and are not meant to be all inclusive:
• Noise level can be moderate to loud.
• Occasional exposure to a variety of weather conditions.
• Exposure to air conditioned and ventilated facilities.
• Exposure to a variety of childhood and adult diseases and illnesses.

Educational & Experiential Requirements:  
• A Bachelor degree; certified by the relevant governing authority, Teaching English as a Second Language or other appropriate accrediting body and additional training to meet the special need of the unaccompanied children.
• Demonstrate sensitivity to the service population’s cultural and socioeconomic characteristics
• Bilingual in English/Spanish