5-day, 6.5-hour MH Aide @ Central - MH Aide - (1 YEAR ONLY) (2026-2027) (3-DAY RESULTANT BID)

Internal applicants only. 3-day bid posting for the 2026-2027 school year.

Schedule

• 5-day position, 6.5 hours per day (8:25 A.M. – 3:25 P.M.)
• ½ hour unpaid lunch
• 9-month contract

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; Associate’s Degree preferred
• Must be ESEA Highly Qualified as listed on the job description
• Valid Ohio educational aide certificate
• Ability to work well with children with disabilities
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
• Ability to perform physical care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene
• Ability to properly lift and move special-needs students

Responsibilities

• Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and state and local board policy
• Assist students with physical or behavioral disabilities according to their individualized needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning
• Assist students with physical care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene
• Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs
• Work with individual students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises assigned by the teacher
• Keep the teacher informed of any special needs or problems of individual students
• Assist the teacher in preparing instructional materials and classroom displays
• Assist in maintaining a neat and orderly classroom
• Assist in inventory, care, and maintenance of equipment
• Assist teacher in keeping administrative records and preparing required reports
• Maintain confidentiality regarding children and their families
• Observe all channels of communication within the building as established by the principal
• Notify the principal and teachers of absence
• Monitor students working with individualized programmed material
• Provide assistance to the special education teacher as the instructional program is implemented
• Supervise students individually and in small groups as learning activities are conducted in accordance with teacher directions
• Assemble materials, programs, and equipment prior to the arrival of the students
• Assist teacher with bulletin boards, duplication of materials, maintaining student charts, work folders, and other clerical duties
• Help supervise arrival and departure of students
• Monitor students in the cafeteria, restroom, hallway, playground, during field trips, school assemblies, and special events, at snack, nap time, and before and after school

Working Conditions

• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, and therapeutic holding; regular lifting of students
• Biological exposure to bacteria and communicable diseases