Public Health Training Assistant

Major Duties/Essential Functions

• Performs curricular, instructional, clerical, and support tasks to assist teachers and other professional staff in a special education classroom or other setting.
• Affords assistance with conducting classroom activities and with evaluating behavior management activities.
• Contributes to the assessment of individual student needs and progress and development of appropriate individualized programs.
• Works with individual and small groups of students to develop fine and gross motor skills.
• Reviews and reinforces work adjustments and related vocational experiences with students.
• Makes daily and long-term planning of activities with teachers.
• May be assigned to assist with providing instruction in basic skills, and to supervise in off-site vocational training and community travel settings.
• On a limited basis, may continue instructional and work activities during the teacher's absence from the classroom.
• Helps maintain order and assists in managing the behavior of students, including behavior intervention plans, de-escalation strategies, and crisis intervention.
• Affords assistance to students, which may involve transferring to and from wheelchairs to floor, table, or therapy devices.
• Supports students with assistive technologies.
• May oversee and lead attendants or volunteers.
• May perform administrative and non-instructional duties, such as keeping daily attendance or recording of work hours of students in a vocational program.
• Affords assistance in maintaining files containing student work and evaluation and assessment data; observes, gathers, and records assessment data on students; reviews observations/progress of students with instructional staff.
• Performs related duties as required or assigned.

Qualifications

• Any combination of education and experience equivalent to graduation from high school or possession of a General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate.
• One (1) year of experience working with children as a volunteer or paid employee, or equivalent participation in a teacher education introductory course with the provision of documented support.
• Advanced degree(s) beyond the minimum degree requirement in a relevant field may be considered for some experience.
• Knowledge of child growth and development and group interaction.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and first-aid methods.
• Knowledge of physical and intellectual disabilities, and applicable instructional procedures and practices.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to assist with providing a wide variety of educational experiences for students to meet their individual, intellectual, and emotional needs.
• Ability to assist a teacher with the use and adaptation of a range of instructional techniques and related technology, and to participate in the monitoring and control of a wide range of behaviors.
• Ability to learn and apply the instructional goals and policies of Fairfax County Public Schools.
• Ability to work effectively with students and staff.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Preferred: Trained in the use of a particular type of equipment or specialized skill, such as the ability to communicate with children with special needs (such as deaf/blind and nonverbal).