Compassionate Classroom Support Paraprofessional

Aveanna Healthcare; Wilkes-Barre (Luzerne County); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Aveanna Healthcare is seeking aides to support students in a school setting during School Year 26/27. You’ll assist with direct care, daily living activities, and instructional tasks under supervision, while upholding confidentiality and professional boundaries.

Responsibilities include aiding the teacher, collecting data, and ensuring safety and well-being during transitions and field trips. Experience with IEPs and patient care is valued.

Qualifications

• High school graduate, GED or equivalent of education and training.
• Registration or Certification as required by state law and regulation.
• Current CPR certification.
• Demonstrated proficiency in clinical assessments, documentation and compliance with aide care and policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a kind, up-beat, positive, considerate, and compassionate attitude.
• Act as a role-model exemplifying qualities of dignity and respect.
• Maintain working relationships with your student(s) and their teachers.
• Collaborate with teachers to support students' growth and development.
• Be willing to seek and accept advice, guidance, support, and feedback.
• Assists the teacher in maintaining student control, orderly behavior in the classroom, helps motivate the assigned student(s); cues appropriate behaviors, and refocuses the student(s) when necessary.
• Assists the assigned student(s) with instructional activities planned and developed by the teacher.
• Assists the assigned student(s) with review of teacher assignments; repeats/simplifies teacher presented instructions; helps student(s) in seatwork activities; redirection and prompting to task, and reviews material originally presented to students by the teacher.
• Assists the teacher in housekeeping tasks in the classroom.
• Tends to the personal needs of the assigned student(s), including but not limited to toileting and other hygiene needs, physical needs such as wheelchair/walker transfers, feeding schedules, monitoring medical conditions and behavior management.
• Ensures that certain specially designed instruction of the assigned student(s)’ Individual Education Plan (IEP) are implemented.
• Data collection as assigned by the teacher or administrator, including but not limited to behavior charts, daily logs, progress monitoring, program charting, or daily summary notes.
• Accompanies the assigned student(s) upon arrival, at lunch, dismissal, on field trips and to activities outside of the classroom as indicated in the assigned student’s IEP or when necessary.
• Assists related services therapists/teachers as needed throughout therapy sessions.
• Other duties as assigned by the classroom teacher or building administrator.
• Help patient maintain good personal hygiene, such as:Assistance with bathing, toileting, grooming, shaving, skin and nail care, oral hygiene, dressing and eating
• Thorough completion and coordination of all required documentation, such as:Maintaining and completing the necessary patient/family and Company documentation records upon conclusion of each visit
• Observe and report significant changes in patient’s condition to Supervisor

Skills

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Team collaboration

English proficiency

Education

High school diploma / GED

Tools

CPR Certification

Job description

Aveanna Healthcare is seeking aides to support students in a school setting during School Year 26/27. You’ll assist with direct care, daily living activities, and instructional tasks under supervision, while upholding confidentiality and professional boundaries.

Responsibilities include aiding the teacher, collecting data, and ensuring safety and well-being during transitions and field trips. Experience with IEPs and patient care is valued.