SVCSP2739 - INSTRUCTIONAL/BUS/MULTICATEGORICAL/MODERATE AIDE (ITINERANT)

West Virginia K-12 Jobs; Texas; On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

The West Virginia Department of Education is seeking candidates to support students with diverse needs in a classroom setting. The role involves assisting students with behavioral, communication, and daily living needs under the supervision of certified professionals.

You will participate in health care and intervention plans, operate adaptive equipment, and support a team in delivering inclusive education. This position requires resilience, compassion, and a commitment to safety.

Qualifications

• Working with students who may have serious behavior problems.
• Be able to assist with daily living needs and mobility.
• Follow health, safety, and educational plans under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the classroom under supervision of certified professionals.
• Administer medications to students in accordance with policy.
• Provide direct supervision and attend to personal care needs.
• Implementation of health care and behavior plans; support intervention techniques, positioning, lifting and handling as needed.

Job description

These positions include working with students who may:

• Have serious behavior problems
• Have uneven patterns of intellectual functioning
• May have difficulty in understanding and expressing emotions
• Have disturbance in the capacity to relate appropriately to people, events and objects, communication, and social behavior
• Have no real fear of danger to self or others
• Have difficulty generalizing, following directions, sequencing, and staying on task outside their area of interest
• Resist change in routines
• Be nonverbal or delayed in language, speech, or meaningful communication
• Require assistance with the daily living needs of these children include toileting, special skills for feeding with extended time, assistance in mobility, placing student in a prone stander, frequent position changes throughout the day
• Exhibit low levels of cognitive functioning and problem solving
• Need academic assistance in specific educational programs

These positions also require:

• Administration of medication to Special Education and Regular Education Students in accordance with West Virginia Code §18-5-22 and County Policy
• Lifting a minimum of 100 lbs. vertically
• Working with adaptive equipment, prosthetic devices, and augmentative communication devices
• Participation in and implementation of specialized training, including CPR, First Aide, Passive Restraint, Behavior Management, etc.
• Working with developmentally disabled students, medically fragile and/or orthopedically impaired students
• Providing direct supervision and attending to personal care needs
• Implementation of health care and behavior plans
• Working in a team teaching setting under the supervision of certified professionals
• Implementation of intervention techniques, positioning, lifting and handling techniques designed by teacher and related services providers
• The use of Physical Intervention and Support Techniques
• Job coach responsibilities with appropriate training as needed

AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER No person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color, or national origin, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance. For more information, please contact Ryan Stafford , Title IX Coordinator, 105 Adair Street, Beckley, WV 25801, 304-256-4500.