Instructional Assistant III - Specialized Physical Health Care

About The Job

OPEN/CONTINUOUS RECRUITMENT
ELIGIBILITY LISTS WILL BE GOOD FOR SIX (6) MONTHS
WE ARE ONLY ACCEPTING ONLINE APPLICATIONS FOR THIS RECRUITMENT

Essential Duties

• Assists teachers in assigned features of the Individualized Education Program (IEP) for students with a wide range of disabilities.
• Assists in instructing/tutoring, supervising, monitoring, and record keeping of assigned students in basic academic language, personal hygiene, grooming, and self-help activities.
• Administers medications prescribed for students, and maintains related logs and records.
• Administers gastroscopy tube feedings, oral feedings, tracheotomy suctioning, and catheters, as required, following clearly defined procedures.
• Demonstrates or assists students with severe physical disabilities in performing personal hygiene and grooming functions, including toileting, diapering, eating, dressing, and positioning.
• Affords physical transferring/lifting students to and from wheelchairs.
• Utilizes approved District restraint training to assist with restraining students as appropriate.
• May be assigned to accompany students or transport to and from school, as required by IEP.
• May accompany, assist, and monitor students on community-based instructional outings and field trips.

Physical Requirements/Working Conditions

• Works in a classroom or community environment with students with a wide range of disabilities, often severe or profound.
• Sitting, stooping, crouching, standing, running, kneeling, squatting, walking and bending to work with assigned students.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate office equipment, learning aids and instructional materials.
• Hearing and speaking to model clear English speech.
• Drives to various district sites.
• May occasionally lift or move a student weighing up to 50 pounds without assistance.
• May need to lift or move a student weighing more than 50 pounds with assistance.
• May need to push wheelchairs up and down inclines, on and off buses and steps, and on long walks out in the community.
• Arranges classroom furniture and various types of training and mobility equipment.
• Suffers from physical and emotional outbursts by students, including such behaviors as kicking, hitting, spitting, scratching, biting, running, and verbal aggression.

Education and Experience

• High school diploma and one year of paid experience equivalent to full-time in working with individuals with disabilities.
• Current enrollment in or completion of an approved nursing, medical or health-related program and some experience with individuals with disabilities.

Certification

• Must possess, or obtain within the first month of employment, and maintain per CPR and First Aid guidelines, a valid First Aid Certificate and a Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation Certificate (through classes endorsed by the American Heart Association or American Red Cross).

Knowledge and Abilities

• Strategies and techniques of assisting in the instruction of students who are medically fragile or who possess mobility impairments.
• Child guidance principles and practices related to students who are medically fragile and/or who possess orthopedic impairments.
• Essential procedures and concepts related to health, safety, hygiene, and patient care.
• Principles of body mechanics in transferring and providing personal care to non-ambulatory students.
• Effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Correct English usage, including vocabulary, punctuation, spelling and grammar.
• Basic teaching techniques and methods.
• Record-keeping and report preparation techniques.
• Appropriate restraint procedures using district training techniques.
• Appropriate hygiene standards.
• Health and safety regulations as related to the position.
• First Aid and CPR procedures.

Selection Procedures

Applications will be accepted from the general public and district employees who possess the above qualifications. The district reserves the right to invite applicants whose qualifications most closely meet the requirements needed for the position to continue in the examination process. The examination may consist of an evaluation of training and experience, multiple choice, performance, and oral/technical exams. Persons needing reasonable accommodation must notify the Office of Personnel Services by the last day to file. A qualifying score must be achieved on all portions of the examination in order to be placed on the promotional eligibility list.

Non-Discrimination Statement

Garden Grove Unified School District prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in educational programs, activities, or employment on the basis of actual or perceived ancestry, age, color, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, parental, pregnancy, family or marital status, immigration and citizenship status, military status, or association with a person or a group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

How to Apply

Applications must be completed on our website at www.ggusd.us. Please note that the district office will not be giving out or accepting hard copy applications for those recruitments that are online only. Please read each posting carefully or call our office if you have any questions. All applications should be received by the Personnel Commission Office by 5:00 p.m. on the last day to file.

Veteran's Credit

• Veterans shall have an additional five (5) points added to their final percentage score on an open eligibility list as prescribed by Education Code, Section 45296.
• "Veteran" as used in this article means any person who has served in the United States armed forces in time of war, or national emergency declared by the President of the United States of America, and who has been discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable.
• "Armed forces" means the United States Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard.
• At least thirty (30) days of active service are required to obtain veteran preference points.
• Disabled veterans shall have an additional ten (10) points added to their final percentage score on an open eligibility list as prescribed by Education Code, Section 45296.
• Proof of disability shall be deemed conclusive if it is of record in the United States Veterans Administration.
• Additional eligibility may be granted based on future changes to the law and verification from the Veteran's Administration or the United States Office of Personnel Management.
• In order to obtain credit, the applicant shall furnish satisfactory proof of qualifying military service prior to establishment of the eligibility list.
• No adjustment of rank on the list shall be made when such proof is presented thereafter.
• A veteran may be credited veterans' preference points only to obtain initial employment in the district.
• Thereafter, the only additional points for an open examination shall be seniority points granted in accord with section 4220.3(C)2.

Hiring Procedures

Garden Grove is a merit system (civil service) school district. Employment and promotions are based upon merit, fitness.