INSTRUCTIONAL/BUS/MODERATE/ONE ON ONE AIDE

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Job Description: This position involves working with students who may have serious behavior problems, uneven patterns of intellectual functioning, difficulty in understanding and expressing emotions, disturbance in the capacity to relate appropriately to people, events and objects, communication, and social behavior. They may have no real fear of danger to self or others, difficulty generalizing, following directions, sequencing, and staying on task outside their area of interest, resist change in routines, be nonverbal or delayed in language, speech, or meaningful communication, require assistance with the daily living needs of these children including toileting, special skills for feeding with extended time, assistance in mobility, placing student in a prone stander, frequent position changes throughout the day, exhibit low levels of cognitive functioning and problem solving, and need academic assistance in specific educational programs.

The positions also require administration of medication to Special Education and Regular Education students in accordance with West Virginia Code §18-5-22 and County Policy, lifting a minimum of 100 lbs. vertically, working with adaptive equipment, prosthetic devices, and augmentative communication devices, participation in and implementation of specialized training, including CPR, First Aide, Passive Restraint, Behavior Management, etc., working with developmentally disabled students, medically fragile and/or orthopedically impaired students, providing direct supervision and attending to personal care needs, implementation of health care and behavior plans, working in a team teaching setting under the supervision of certified professionals, implementation of intervention techniques, positioning, lifting and handling techniques designed by teacher and related services providers, the use of Physical Intervention and Support Techniques, and job coach responsibilities with appropriate training as needed.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. No person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. For more information, please contact Ryan Stafford, Title IX Coordinator, 105 Adair Street, Beckley, WV 25801, .