Teacher's Assistant

Compass Health Center • Northbrook, IL

6h • Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking a Teacher’s Assistant to join our growing team! This role will be a blend of direct patient interaction and general administration work. If you are passionate about providing patients with exemplary care, while being sensitive to their individual psychiatric conditions, you would be a great addition to our team. Our location in Northbrook is our first and largest facility, and consists not only of our widest variety of programs, but also serves as a pilot site for many of our new treatment offerings. Compass Health Center is a recognized leader in crisis-level mental health, bringing passion, connection, and patient-centered care to the Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient space (PHP/IOP). Based in Chicagoland, we serve hundreds of patients every day, ranging from ages 5 through adulthood, in our onsite facilities or through our flourishing virtual programming. Compass fills a critical gap between outpatient and inpatient care through an intermediate level of Behavioral Healthcare. Our values are super important to us, and hopefully will be to you, too. Cultural humility, teamwork, continuous improvement, connection, patient centered care, passion, innovation, and agility should be your power sources. Joining Compass is an opportunity to feel fulfilled through a joint mission towards healing our communities.

Requirements

• Experience working with children and adolescent
• Flexibility is critical
• Excellent time management and organizational skills, including the ability to juggle multiple demands simultaneously in a fast paced and changing environment
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree

Responsibilities

• Provide daily supervision and support for the learning environment across U18 programs
• Implement classroom behavior management strategies for patients as needed
• Set up and facilitate rooms for supervised study, ensuring room is equipped with appropriate supplies
• Distribute printed work sent by email or printed from online resources.
• Scan and e-mail completed work back to school contacts
• Manage, proctor and support the administration of assessments for each patient, including noting special instructions/testing accommodations
• Set up computers/tablets for patients and support patients to connect to Compass Guest Wifi, in addition to securing all Compass technology when not in use
• Monitor patient technology use to ensure patients are following technology guidelines
• Engage in frequent communication and collaboration with team members
• Check and respond to daily emails, voicemails and Teams messages
• Ensure safe patient transitions from room to room
• Communicate patient requests with doctors/nurses/therapists/teachers, as needed
• Support with walking patients to/from lobby when they arrive and need to leave, as needed.
• Administrative tasks such as data entry, attendance, and general paperwork
• Maintain patient privacy at all times
• Supervise patient lunch period, as needed
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision plans
• 401k program with company matching
• Generous PTO (including competitive parental leave after 1 year of employment)
• Continuous training through CEU seminars and volunteering opportunities
• Plenty of space for growth, and opportunities to pursue continuous development within our organization

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees