5-day, 6.5-hour MH Aide @ Central - MH Aide - (3-DAY RESULTANT BID)

Internal applicants only. Bid posting for a 3-day resultant period.

About the Role

5-day, 6.5-hour Multi-Handicapped Aide position at Central Elementary.

Schedule

8:25 A.M. – 3:25 P.M., Monday through Friday (½ hour unpaid lunch). 9-month contract.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED (Associate’s Degree preferred).
• Must meet ESEA Highly Qualified requirements as listed on the job description.
• Valid Ohio educational aide certificate.

Responsibilities

• Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and state and local board policy.
• Assist students with physical or behavioral disabilities, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning.
• Provide physical care: feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.
• Adapt 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.
• Prepare instructional materials and classroom displays; maintain a neat and orderly classroom.
• Assist in inventory, care, and maintenance of equipment.
• Help maintain administrative records and prepare required reports.
• Maintain strict confidentiality regarding children and their families.
• Follow established communication channels within the building.
• Notify the principal and teachers of absence.
• Monitor students working with individualized programmed material.
• Provide instructional support as the special education program is implemented.
• Supervise students individually and in small groups according to teacher directions.
• Prepare materials, programs, and equipment before student arrival.
• Assist with bulletin boards, duplication of materials, maintaining student charts, work folders, and other clerical duties.
• Help supervise student arrival and departure.
• Monitor students in the cafeteria, restroom, hallway, playground, during field trips, school assemblies, special events, snack, nap time, and before/after school.

Skills

• Ability to work well with children with disabilities.
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions.
• Ability to perform physical care tasks, including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene.
• Ability to properly lift and move special needs students.
• Maintain emotional control under stress.

Working Conditions

• Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, and therapeutic holding; regular lifting of students.
• Exposure to biological hazards, bacteria, and communicable diseases.