Personal Care Assistant (PCA) $19 per hour

Chester Community Charter School; Chester (Delaware County); On-site; USD 49,594,000 - 57,859,000; Full time

Job summary

Chester Community Charter School is seeking a Personal Care Assistant in Chester, PA to provide one-on-one support for students requiring assistance.

The PCA works under supervision of the Special Education and Pupil Services Department and assists with daily activities, mobility devices, and self-care tasks.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma required per PA regulations.
• Pennsylvania Criminal Record Check Clearance
• Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
• FBI Criminal Background Clearance

Responsibilities

• Helps prepare, collect and set up materials for classroom activities.
• Provides instructional, behavioral, or physical assistance to students individually or in small groups.
• Assists with large group activities such as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling.
• Maintains daily activity logs for assigned students.
• Alerts regular teacher to problems or special information about students.
• Maintains confidentiality of student information.
• Assists students in self-care as assigned by teacher.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Effective communication

Problem solving

Follow directions

Compassion for students with disabil

Education

High School Diploma

Job description

Personal Care Assistant (PCA) $19 per hour

Chester, PA

Established in 1998 with 97 students, CCCS has steadily increased to more than 4,000 students in grades K-8 across 12 state-of-the-art buildings on four campuses. The school is a true community success story that has transformed the lives of thousands of students and their families, while breathing life back into a city that was once one of Philadelphia's most vibrant manufacturing suburbs.

Job Summary: The Personal Care Assistant (PCA) is assigned specifically to a student or group of students who regularly need one-on-one assistance to maintain appropriate and equitable participation in the school setting. The PCA directly supports the students at the direction of the teacher and is under the general supervision the Special Education and Pupil Services Department.

• Helps prepare, collect and set-up materials for student participation, following teacher direction
• Provides instructional, behavioral, or physical assistance to students individually or in small groups at the direction of the teacher to reinforce and follow up instruction
• Assists with such large group activities as drill work, reading aloud, and storytelling
• Maintains daily activity logs for your assigned student (s)
• Alerts regular teacher to any problem or special information about the individual student(s)
• Serves as the chief source of information for the assigned students to help any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of teachers
• Operates and or assists in the use of student mobility devices such as, but not limited to, walker, wheelchair, braces, canes, etc.
• Assists students in self-care as assigned by teacher
• Performs other related duties as assigned
• High School Diploma in addition to any pre-requisite requirements as defined by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short (simple) correspondence, memos, and routine reports
• Pennsylvania Criminal Record Check Clearance
• Pennsylvania Child Abuse Clearance
• FBI Criminal Background Clearance

• Effective communication with students and staff
• Various problem solving methods

• Follow directions
• Work closely with support and compassion with students with disabilities

Note: CCCS has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract.

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

District Policy: The School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin age, sex or disability, in admission or accessto, or treatment or employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the School's compliance with theregulations implementing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), orTitle II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact the Assistant Superintendent or Human Resources.

As set forth in Chester Community Charter School's Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

Veteran Eligibility Categories

• A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
• A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
• An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the