LPN Teacher Assistant for Students with Severe Disabilities Memorial Elementary
LPN Teacher Assistant for Students with Severe Disabilities Memorial Elementary
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$ 54344 - 74865
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About Us:LABBB Collaborative provides educational programming and support services for over 300 special needs students from over 65 districts. LABBB serves students ages 3 to 22 years old with a variety of special needs including students on the autism spectrum students with multihandicaps pervasive development disorders developmental delays language deficits and social/emotional challenges. The LABBB community has a vision of skillbased instruction that considers the whole student from early childhood to adult living. Our staff is committed to creating a professional working environment through teamwork communication and respect. We are very excited for you to join us!
About the role:LABBB is hiring a LPN / Special Education Teacher Assistant to work with students with significant disabilities including intellectual communication and behavior challenges. The classroom is a multigrade substantially separate classroom located at Memorial Elementary School in Burlington. The LPN/ Special Education Teacher Assistant provides primary and emergency health care to students. Provide nursing services on transportation (i.e. community trips/field trips) This includes direct and indirect nursing care health maintenance teaching counseling guidance and collaborative planning as supervised by the Collaborative Nurse Leader. When not providing nursing care the LPN/TA fulfills a teaching assistant role and is responsible for providing specialized support to help students engage in learning activities within a substantially separate classroom setting general education inclusion setting or within the community as well as assisting special education teachers and specialists throughout each school day. This position is responsible for data collection developing therapeutic rapport with students in order to effectively deescalate situations and assist in providing effective student Assistants actively engage in professional development and follow through with all recommendations put in place by the students teams to further the effective support of students. Additionally this essential team member must demonstrate a positive and caring attitude and must remain flexible and adaptable in order to meet school needs.
Job Requirements:Licensed Practical Nurse in the state of School Diploma or GED required Associate degree or Bachelors degree preferredCurrent first aid/CPR certification. Experience working with children young adults or in human services related field special education experience highly to work with students with a variety of disabilities including but not limited to social emotional behavioral nonverbal nonambulatory drivers license and ability to commute between buildings/programs during the and willingness to drive LABBB van (as required by program) Working full time 35 hours per week) 11 months (school calendar plus required 4 weeks in summer)
Responsibilities:Attend to students personal hygiene and health care needs as outlined in the individual health care plan or according to classroom schedule (teacher direction) e.g. feeds children orally or through gastrointestinal tubes gives medication as authorized changes diapers accompanies students to bathroom monitors seizure activity provides oxygen and uses suctioning lifts transfers and positions students as physical condition of students and communicate changes to the school nurse and lead nurse as communication with school nurse lead nurse teacher therapists bus drivers and other staff members. Communicates with parents as directed by the teacher or lead classroom records charts medication given records student activity and observations of behavior and overall all medical equipment i.e. oxygen equipment and suction machines and respond to emergency a clean sanitary and safe environment for students by using universal precautions and following blood borne pathogen with arrival and departure of the supervision of licensed staff assist in the implementation of appropriate data driven culturally responsive instruction and implementation of individual education plans and behavior intervention a culturally diverse purposeful respectful and stimulating that is organized and positive in nature and geared towards student needs and a schedule as assigned including reassignments to different program locations as instructional materials as requested/directed by the student data and provides it to members of the students team (teacher transition counselor related service provider)Effectively utilize any recommended adaptive equipment for individual all significant occurrences to the appropriate supervisor in a respectful and timely students personal care needs which may include activities of daily living (ADLs) such as communication toileting feeding transferring selfcare and assistance with mobility including lifting Supervise students across educational settings including at lunch and in the community.
Salary Range: $54344 to $74865 commensurate with experience and education. *Salary range is for school year and includes compensation for required 4week summer program
Benefits: Fulltime employees at LABBB Collaborative enjoy lowcost benefit offerings that includes medical dental & vision insurance plans partial employerpaid basic life insurance optional employee and dependent life insurance voluntary medical and dependent care flexible spending accounts 403(b) retirement plan and Massachusetts state employees pension plan paid timeoff tuition reimbursement employee assistance program and much more!
Employment Type
Full-Time
