LPN​/Teacher Assistant Severe Disabilities @ Memorial Elementary

Job Details

Job : 5748539

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Posted: May 30, 2026 12:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Aug 25, 2026

About Us: LABBB Collaborative provides educational programming and support services for over 300 special needs students from over 65 districts. LABBB serves students ages 3 to 22 years old with a variety of special needs including students on the autism spectrum, students with multi-handicaps, pervasive development disorders, developmental delays, language deficits and social/emotional challenges. The LABBB community has a vision of skill-based instruction that considers the whole student from early childhood to adult living.

Our staff is committed to creating a professional working environment through teamwork, communication, and respect. We are very excited for you to join us!

About the role: LABBB is hiring a LPN / Special Education Teacher Assistant to work with students with significant disabilities including intellectual, communication, and behavior challenges. The classroom is a multi-grade substantially separate classroom located at Memorial Elementary School in Burlington. The LPN/ Special Education Teacher Assistant provides primary and emergency health care to students. Provide nursing services on transportation (i.e. community trips/field trips).

This includes direct and indirect nursing care, health maintenance, teaching, counseling, guidance and collaborative planning as supervised by the Collaborative Nurse Leader.

When not providing nursing care, the LPN/TA fulfills a teaching assistant role and is responsible for providing specialized support to help students engage in learning activities within a substantially separate classroom setting, general education inclusion setting, or within the community as well as assisting special education teachers and specialists throughout each school day. This position is responsible for data collection, developing therapeutic rapport with students in order to effectively de-escalate situations, and assist in providing effective student instruction.

Teaching Assistants actively engage in professional development and follow through with all recommendations put in place by the students’ teams to further the effective support of students. Additionally, this essential team member must demonstrate a positive and caring attitude and must remain flexible and adaptable in order to meet school needs.

• Licensed Practical Nurse in the state of Massachusetts.
• High School Diploma or GED required, Associate degree or Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Current first aid/CPR certification.
• Experience working with children, young adults, or in human services related field, special education experience highly desirable.
• Ability to work with students with a variety of disabilities including, but not limited to social emotional, behavioral, non-verbal, non-ambulatory, etc.
• Valid driver’s license and ability to commute between buildings/programs during the day.
• Ability and willingness to drive LABBB van (as required by program)
• Working full time (35 hours per week), 11 months (school calendar plus required 4 weeks in summer)

• Attend to students  personal hygiene and health care needs as outlined in the individual health care plan or according to classroom schedule (teacher direction), e.g., feeds children orally or through gastrointestinal tubes, gives medication as authorized, changes diapers, accompanies students to bathroom, monitors seizure activity provides oxygen, and uses suctioning equipment.
• Properly lifts, transfers and positions students as needed.
• Monitor physical condition of students and communicate changes to the school nurse and lead nurse as necessary.
• Maintain communication with school nurse, lead nurse, teacher, therapists, bus drivers, and other staff members. Communicates with parents as directed by the teacher or lead nurse.
• Maintain classroom records, charts medication given, records student activity and observations of behavior and overall health.
• Monitor all medical equipment, i.e. oxygen equipment and suction machines, etc.
• Assess and respond to emergency situations.
• Maintain…