JOB POSTINGPOSITION/TITLE:Teaching AssistantPROGRAM/LOCATION:Learning Center Programs (Pembroke Easton)START DATE: August 25 2025 (2026 Summer Hours Available Also)LENGTH OF POSITION:Eleven month schedule full school-year (183 days) and summer hours (six weeks) as SCHEDULE:Teacher Aide Salary ScheduleQUALIFICATIONS:1. High School Diploma or equivalent2. Experience working with students with autism spectrum disorder and students with multiple disabilities preferred3. Willingness to attend training/in-services with co-workersREPORTS TO:Learning Center Program CoordinatorEVALUATION:Staff evaluation will be implemented as outlined in the North River Collaborative Personnel Policies and Procedures RESPONSIBILITIES:INSTRUCTIONAL/DIRECT SERVICEProvide support for individual students or small groups of students to reinforce as a member of a team with other program staff to provide a consistent program for students in the absence of a staff staff in devising special strategies for reinforcing materials or skills based on a sympathetic understanding of individual students their needs interests and the planning preparation and implementation of daily academic vocational and life skills to maintain an environment to facilitate learning experiences for the students. Assume responsibility for scheduled activities and implementation when a teacher is not behavior management programs for students as crisis intervention when AND TRAININGAttend and participate in in-service training programs and staff developmentmeetings as specific teaching strategies or skills for instructing individual students EVALUATION AND COMMUNICATIONAssist staff in maintaining student attendance records and other data as by program hours and other policies as outlined in the North RiverCollaborative Personnel Policies and Procedures AND SAFETYRespond to the needs of individual students so as to enhance theirsocial/emotional health and personal to situations in a culturally proficient manner taking into account awhole student training is able to apply de-escalation strategies if necessary to prevent astudent from harming themselves or to safely lift students up to 50 lbs independently and assist in lifting studentsup to 100 to physically assist students during activities such as: toileting personalhygiene in/out of adaptive equipment and mechanical lifts and other self-caretasks as to move with reasonable speed and physically assist students during anyemergency drills or actual to safely and effectively participate in restraint training and to safelyperform physical escort and restraints as needed once to safely and effectively participate in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation(CPR) training if requested and to safely perform CPR as needed once a high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information professional attitudes and productive relationships with other staff parents and other professionals with constructively to feedback and goal oriented DUTIES AS ASSIGNED BY THE PROGRAM COORDINATOR