Special Education Assistant - Severely Mentally Handicapped One-on-One # 97 Henry School

One-On-One Special Education Assistant

SUSD is proud to offer a comprehensive benefit package:

• FREE health benefits through Kaiser for Employee and Family
• Paid Vacation days
• Sick Leave Days
• Floating Holiday

The one-on-one assistant will perform a variety of paraprofessional instructional activities to assist the teacher or other certificated staff in providing instruction, housekeeping and supervision to severely mentally handicapped student between the ages of 3 to 22 years; to perform a variety of supportive activities for instructional personnel and to do other related duties as assigned. The one-on-one assistant will follow the student as necessary. If no student is available, the one-on-one assistant will be temporarily placed in a classroom within their classification until a one-on-one student is assigned to the one-on-one assistant.

Supervision Received and Exercised:

Receives direction from the teacher in charge.

Representative Duties:

• Assist student to and from buses and classes
• Teaching independent mobility
• Assist instructional personnel in the development and implementation of individual educational plans under the teacher's supervision
• Continuously assist and monitor student in a variety of academic and recreational activities
• Tutor student to reinforce and follow-up training and learning experiences
• Supervise student during study, lunch and play periods
• Assist student in the development and maintenance of appropriate social behavior
• Assist student to become self-reliant
• Assist in the maintenance of student's daily performance records
• May prepare instructional material.
• Operate a variety of audio-visual equipment such as projectors and other learning machines
• May type and duplicate lessons, tests and other instructional materials.
• Assist serving food.
• Teach student self-feeding skills and grooming skills
• Assist student with toileting, buttons, snaps and zippers
• Clean student lacking control
• Change diapers, bath and cloth student
• May lift and move handicapped student.
• Assist in keeping work area attractive.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of:
• Problems involved in the care of severely mentally handicapped student
• Methods and attitudes required in assisting severely mentally handicapped student with their personal needs and academic activities
• Techniques in dealing appropriately with assaultive behavior
• English usage, punctuation, spelling and grammar
• Basic arithmetic concepts
• Principles, goals and objectives of the educational process
• Ability to:
• Demonstrate an empathetic, patient and receptive attitude with student exhibiting specialized severe mental and behavior needs
• Establish and maintain an effective relationship with teachers, therapists and other certificated staff
• Communicate satisfactorily in oral and written form and serve as an appropriate model
• Gain the confidence of handicapped student, encourage and assist them in therapy, classroom and recreational activities
• Deal appropriately with behavior exhibited by handicapped student
• Remain calm under stress
• Understand and maintain confidentiality
• Follow a work schedule that may change from day to day
• Perform routine clerical tasks and operate office and educational machines and equipment
• Successfully supervise student
• Use safe working conditions

Education, Training and Experience:

• Education, training and experience equivalent to the completion of the twelfth (12) grade and at least one (1) year experience working with handicapped students; and completion of college level courses in special education or a related field

No Child Left Behind Federal Requirements:

• High school graduation or GED
• Degree or completion of 48 semester units from accredited college or university or District Assessment Test/County certificate showing compliance with NCLB. (SUSD proficiency test taken before 7/1/04 does not meet this requirement)

Certificates Required:

District First Aid Course Certificate must be obtain within the first six (6) months of date of hire. CPR Certificate and a valid American Red Cross First Aid Certificate preferred.

Physical Requirements:

SMH – Pre-K thru 3rd grade:

• Sit for prolonged periods of time
• Stand and walk for prolonged periods of time
• Frequent bending/stooping; squatting/crouching/kneeling
• Infrequent climbing
• Occasional reaching overhead, above shoulder and horizontally
• Frequent pushing/pulling, lifting and maneuvering objects such as wheelchairs and/or walker with students with a broad range of body weights
• May lift and/or support/drag up to 150 pounds for short periods of time with assistance if necessary
• May occasionally to frequently push/pull up to 150 lbs with assistance if necessary
• Requires simple to firm grasping to seize, hold, grasp, turn or otherwise work with hands to position students in their wheelchairs; assist with classroom instructional activities; assist students with dressing tasks

SMH – 4th Grade thru Adult-Physical Requirements:

• Sit for prolonged periods of time
• Stand and walk for prolonged periods of time
• Occasional to Frequent bending/stooping; squatting/crouching/kneeling
• Infrequent climbing
• Occasional reaching overhead, above shoulders and horizontally
• Frequent pushing/pulling, lifting and maneuvering objects such as wheelchairs and/or walker with students with a broad range of body weights
• May lift and/or support/drag up to 200 pounds for short periods of time with assistance if necessary
• May occasionally to frequently push/pull up to 200 lbs with assistance if necessary
• Requires simple to firm grasping to seize, hold, grasp, turn or otherwise work with hands to position students in their wheelchairs; assist with classroom instructional activities; assist students with dressing tasks

Physical Requirements – MAB (Managing Assaultive Behaviors):

• Stand on a variety of surfaces
• Walk/run on a variety of surfaces, at a pace dependent upon the situation
• Sit on a chair to protect self by bending forward, or use the chair as a backwards propelling tool to escape a grab or grip of an attacker
• Push/pull with sufficient intensity to achieve desired result
• May lift and/or carry up to 100 lbs for short periods of time with assistance if necessary
• Stoop/kneel/crouch/crawl: these movements occur in multiple intervention strategies
• Reaching in any direction. Depending on age and stature of student, reaching may occur at all levels – waist to knee; waist to chest; below knee; chest to shoulder; and/or above shoulder
• Constant handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning, or otherwise working with the hand or hands Includes simple and power grasping
• Fingering: Fine finger manipulation is required in releasing an individual's hand grab/grip, as well as releasing tension and/or constraints
• Balancing: Body postures and maneuvers taught require maintaining body balance through positioning of the lower extremities, including pivoting, rotating, and flipping an individual if required
• Climbing: In the event of stairs, the employee must be able to climb or descend the stairs as needed
• And/or climbing over obstacles or objects may be required such as an upside down table or chair
• Twisting: Upper and lower torso twisting is required in multiple intervention strategies