- Collaborates with various staff and works in teams to provide instruction to students.- Provides an optimum learning environment for all students.- Uses knowledge of child growth and development needs to ensure positive growth in learners.- Employs a systematic instructional process designed to meet the needs of students in varying classroom settings. -Models lifelong learning, positive self esteem, and respect for others.-Follows district and state guidelines for essential learning and instructional strategies.-Sets and maintains high personal, professional, and instructional standards for self and students. -Adheres to Washington Code of Professional Conduct.

- Shift Supervision of up to eleven Psychiatric Aides in a locked inpatient Psychiatric Facility.- Triage admissions and discharges to and from Medical Centers and Detention Facilities.- Human resource responsibilities including recruiting, hiring, training, scheduling, disciplining, and mentoring staff to further their development. -Maintain client charts, review detainment paperwork, and legal documentation.-Work with the Program Manager in administrative duties.-Uses firm understanding of principles of human behavior and adolescent psychology to interact with, and help treat clientele.-Coordinate, assess, and evaluate clients brought into the psychiatric facility. -Maintain a safe, Trauma Informed, and therapeutic milieu focused on recovery principles.-Facilitate and coordinate groups and activities within the facility, as well as transport to outside meetings and medical appointments. -Use clinical discretion to evaluate and determine need for crisis intervention, de-escalation techniques, physical intervention, seclusion, and restraints.-Formally trained in MPAC and CPI, Crisis Intervention and De-escalation Strategies, Employee Conduct Standards, Government Agency Ethics, and Meeting Management.

- Accountable for the leadership and management of a staff of eighteen employees and residence.- Directed and supervised day to day operations of a home for children with mental illness and severe cognitive disabilities.- Ensured staff maintained current training/documentation according to company policy and associated RCWs. - Responsible for creating and maintaining budgets that comply with state guidelines, spending accounts, schedules, transportation coordination, medical and behavioral documentation in both written and electronic formats. - Developed and maintained working relationships with multiple outside funding agencies, oversight agencies, stakeholders, and government organizations, to provide succinct and quality care for the clients living at the home.- Human resource responsibilities including recruiting, hiring, training, scheduling, terminating employment, and mentoring staff to further their development. - Facilitated safety and public health trainings and inspections. - Maintained and submitted monthly, quarterly, and annual reports to varying government agencies.- Designed and applied internal control systems to reduce waste and fraud.- Formally trained in Conflict and Dispute Resolution, EEO Principles and Counseling, Employee Conduct Standards, Government Agency Ethics, and Meeting Management.

- Maintained a positive, professional, relationship with over 60 businesses in order to promote the goals and mission of Clayton Aquariums.- Collected and analyzed freshwater and saltwater samples in order to control quality of aquatic environments.- Troubleshoot and problem solve based on observations and examinations made in the field.- Built and maintained freshwater and marine systems at client's homes, offices, and in the store. - Monitored health of freshwater and marine vertebrates and invertebrates and administered antibiotics/treatments when appropriate. - Maintained accurate and thorough records.

- Assisted in the development of the program budget and maintained the program within authorized budget guidelines.- Prepared and maintained accurate fiscal records and personnel files, and maintained accurate records and reports for persons receiving services. - Responsible for the supervision of persons with developmental disabilities receiving services who participated in camp, independent living, and group social recreation programs.- Responsible for the training of program staff, directing and scheduling staff work assignments, and conducting regular staff meetings.- Implemented and monitored program contracts and coordinated and supervised transportation needs. - Acted as an appropriate and positive role model for staff and participants.- Coordinates and acts as liaison between involved agencies and recruits volunteers.

- Establishes priority objectives for clients.- Developed Individualized Service Plans and coordinated with outside agencies to implement clients’ personalized goals.- Provides consistent, goal oriented programming.- Provides appropriate and positive role model for persons receiving services. - Accurately maintains client files and required records.

Camp Chico Creek is a science and environment educational based day camp offered in Bidwell Park to 5-11 year old children. - Worked with the Executive Director, Board of Directors, various colleagues, and many outside organizations to create and implement new programs that functioned to educate the public and to extend the Nature Center's influence in the community.- Developed department budget and operated within its guidelines.- Responsible for hiring, training, scheduling, evaluation, and supervision of all camp staff, interns, and volunteers. - Continually researched, developed, and created new hands-on educational programs that promoted conservation and supported the mission and goals of the Nature Center. - Collaborated with other local organizations to provide unique and fun educational experiences for children K-12. - Assist with media and camp enrollment outreach, and worked in a team to create brochures and newsletters for parents, teachers, and the public.

- Built and maintained closed freshwater and marine systems both at client's homes and offices and in the store.- Monitored health of freshwater and marine vertebrates and invertebrates and administered antibiotics/treatments when appropriate.- Collected and analyzed freshwater and saltwater samples and consulted with clients when appropriate.- Maintained accurate and thorough records.