Social Emotional Support Specialist.

Wu Yee Children’s Services believes nothing is more essential than excellent child care and education for all our children, right from the start. Every day we partner with parents, as well as countless individuals and organizations across San Francisco, to provide a network that strengthens and connects a diverse, resilient community around our children.

The Social-Emotional Support Specialist provides direct support to children in classroom settings by teaching social-emotional skills and supporting children with challenging behavior. This position works collaboratively with teachers, administrators, and mental health providers to support children’s learning and safety.

Location: 880 Clay St San Francisco CA (Req # 1677) 

Full time 40 hours per week  Hours (8:00-4:30 or 8:30-5:00 pm) 

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct one-to-one support to individual children in classrooms by teaching social-emotional skills, modeling strategies for teachers, and supporting children when they engage in behaviors that can be challenging to some adults.


• Participate in meetings with staff to assist in planning for individualized learning strategies to build relationships, modify the classroom environment, and teach social-emotional skills. 


• Create individualized visual supports to use, model, and share with teachers (e.g. visuals relating to schedules, expectations, rules, emotions, problem-solving strategies, self-regulation).


• Individualize goals, strategies, and visuals to support children with developmental delays or disabilities.


• Model strategies from the Pyramid Model and other Social-Emotional Frameworks


• Record and analyze data relating to children’s classroom observation, behavior and skill-building. 


• Contact community partners to access external support as directed by supervisor.


• Ability to maintain client/ parent & family confidentiality 


• Perform other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Experience/Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Special Education, Early Childhood Education, Social Work, Psychology, or a closely-related field.


• Minimum of 3 years experience teaching or providing therapeutic, services to children 0-5 years old from low income, diverse cultural backgrounds.


• Knowledge and education regarding developmentally appropriate practices.


• Experience providing individualized support to children with developmental delays or disabilities (e.g. autism, speech, and language impairment).


• Excellent oral/written communication and organizational skills.


• Ability to communicate using technology, develop reports, and track data.


• Willingness to travel to Child Development Centers located across San Francisco.


• Preferred: Experience working with young children in group or classroom settings.

Compensation and Benefits:

• The pay range for this position is $37.15 - $46.10. A new hire generally starts between $37.15 and $41.10. The final salary offer will be determined after reviewing relevant factors, including but not limited to skill sets, relevant experience, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.


• Fully paid employee health, dental and vision


• 403b with matching contribution after 1 year


• 14 holidays, 15 days' vacation and paid sick leave


• Lots of opportunity for advancement across the organization


• Extensive paid training and professional developmen

WU YEE CHILDREN’S SERVICES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

Wu Yee Children’s Services conforms to all the laws, statutes, and regulations concerning Equal Employment Opportunities and Affirmative Action. We promote diversity and urge women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans to apply to all of our job openings. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records to apply for any open position in which they feel qualified. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, genetic information and testing, family and medical leave, sexual orientation and gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Wu Yee Children’s Services is an equal opportunity employer.