Personal Care Paraeducator- Elementary School
Personal Care Paraeducator- Elementary School
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05-04-2025
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Job Description
TITLE: Personal Care Paraeducator
REPORTS TO: Director of Student Support Services
Building Principal
Teacher
JOB GOALS:
- To assist children in selfsufficiency communications interpersonal mobility and behavioral skills.
- To encourage support and educate students by assisting them in the performance of daily living activities necessary for their comfort wellbeing and integrity.
- To promote independence to the maximum extent possible to be successful based on the individual needs of each student and their disabilities.
- To assist the regular and special education teachers in all facets of the South Fayette educational program such as to maximize students participation and success in the least restrictive environment.
- To assist students with their learning behavioral emotional and/or social difficulties so that they may participate successfully in the least restrictive environment.
- To maintain the safety of students at all times. This is a critical function of the paraeducators responsibility as students may lack awareness of the most basic safety regulations including: avoiding dangerous situations recognizing hazards previously warned about responding appropriately to danger signals wandering into unknown areas and/or touching/handling/smelling/tasting unknown objects.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Two or Four Year Degree (preference to the field of education)
- Current certification in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Experience working with children with disabilities
- Ability to work cooperatively with many individuals
- Ability to communicate with adults and children effectively
- Dependable and mature in demeanor
- Excellent writing skills
- Ability to take notes
- Ability to learn about specific characteristics interventions and strategies related to varying disabilities/atypical syndromes
- Strong commitment to the goals mission and philosophy of the school district
- Expresses a strong desire and enthusiasm to make a difference in a students lives
- Experience in behavior strategies in working with children/youth
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES (Child Specific):
- Support students in the areas of academics social emotional and functional skills.
- Facilitate and model appropriate social interaction throughout entire school day.
- Supervise students and manage student behaviors using basic management techniques throughout entire school day. These techniques include redirection modeling positive and negative reinforcement shaping and direct handoverhand assistance.
- Deliver independent learning activities in various academic areas as well as specials areas as assigned.
- Accompany students to various settings throughout the school and district community including field trips and special functions.
- Provide students with redirection organization coping strategies and other specially designed instruction as specified in their IEPs.
- Support the medical needs of assigned student(s) as necessary in order to increase their independence and to increase the students ability to access their education.
- Follow medical crisis plans as necessary for students with medical needs.
- Assist student(s) with functional activities such as:
- Buying a lunch
- Delivering notes from home
- Packing and unpacking items from back pack
- Manipulating fasteners
- Removing and putting on outer wear
- Hanging up items in the closet
- Organizing items in desk
- Getting out needed supplies such as pencils crayons glue as appropriate
- Unpacking lunch box
- Opening food containers
- Cleaning up and gathering items after lunch
- Prompting student to wash hands wipe nose wipe face etc.
- Assist student(s) with personal care hygiene and health care activities such as:
- Assist with toileting needs (e.g. wiping after urination and/or bowel movements changing diapers helping with menstrual needs)
- Assist with tube feeding pulmonary treatments and suctioning of the mouth and tracheotomy (after training and under the supervision of a school nurse; as allowed by law)
- Maintain awareness of silent aspirators and addressing as outlined in medical crisis plan
- Provide proper positioning and lifting of students with physical challenges (after training)
- Monitor seizure signs and caring for students during and after a seizure (after training and under the supervision of a school nurse; as allowed by law)
- Support students who may have chronic contagious conditions according to established universal health care procedures to ensure personal and student safety (after training and under the supervision of a school nurse; as allowed by law)
- Maintain student specific medical supplies and equipment
- Assist in maintaining communication between home and school when appropriate with the classroom teacher and/or administration.
- Monitor students progress on IEP goals as outlined by special education staff.
- Assist teachers with reporting data regarding student progress on IEP goals/objectives and/or Individual Student Positive Behavior Support Plan.
- Communicate with special education teacher(s) regarding the progress of special education students across settings.
- Participate in parentteacher conferences and Individualized Education Plan meetings when requested.
- Administer first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and maintain certification
- Possess the ability to work as a team player with teachers in classrooms and with administration in the buildings.
- Display enthusiasm and promote a friendly group working environment work closely with other departments/programs as necessary and display professional team spirit.
- Perform a wide variety of tasks and be able to change focus quickly as situations change and manage these transitions and tasks effectively.
- Write effectively to complete daily/weekly/monthly online Medical Assistance (MA) forms regarding children/youth that you are assigned responsibilities.
- Acquire if needed based on 2 year/4 year degree the PDE Credential of Paraeducator Competency during the first two years of employment at South Fayette Township School District.
- Participate in professional development to acquire the needed 20 hours annually to retain the high qualified paraeducator status.
- May be asked to perform other jobrelated responsibilities as designated by the special education teacher regular education teacher building principals and/or the Director of Student Support Services.
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Rate $17.57 as per the negotiated contract for the probationary period of 60 working days. $21.96 after successful completion of the probationary period.
Personal Care Paraeducator job assignments/positions may change during the school year or yeartoyear based on special education student needs special education populations in each building and/or training.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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