Special Education Assistant - CIP

Essential Job Functions

• Playground, lunchroom, rest periods, loading and unloading buses, hall duty, and other supervisory duties as directed.
• Children in the CIP classroom may have limited awareness of boundaries which result in a need for more direct forms of supervision.
• Assisting students with toileting which may include changing diapers and/or lifting.
• Assisting students or performing routine personal hygiene activities such as brushing teeth, wiping/blowing nose, washing hands.
• Dealing with student bodily fluids in accordance with guidelines established as part of detailed universal precautions, lifting in/out of assistive apparatuses/equipment, clerical tasks.
• Other support tasks as directed by the teacher, school principal or his/her designee, or the Director of Special Education or his/her designee.

Physical and Mental Demands, Work Hazards

• Seldom: Standing for extended periods of time.
• Sometimes: Lifting 25 pounds, carrying 25 pounds, working at a desk, conference table or in meetings of various configurations, seeing for the purpose of reading laws and codes, rules and policies and other printed matter.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Ability to read and write.
• Willingness and desire to work with special needs children.
• Effective human relations skills that include a calm and patient personality.