Special Education; Teacher Aide 26​/27

Job Title

Exceptional package including but not limited to:

Attendance Incentives Schedule follows BOCES school calendar or host site school calendar

Summers off with the option to work summer

Generous paid personal/sick time Premium Health plans (GST pays 86.5%)Premium Dental and Vision Plans - FSA & HRA NYS Retirement System
403b Plan/457 optional

Short-term disability

Longevity pay Tuition Reimbursement

Position and Locations:

Elmira City School District Horseheads School District Bush Campus-Phoenix Academy Wildwood Campus - Columbian Elementary School in Hornell Bath School District Jasper-Troupsburg Host Site Spencer-Van Etten Elementary School

Depending on location, this position may involve direct work with students with autism, emotional and/or developmental disabilities which may include, but are not limited to, op positional and aggressive behaviors; mood disorders; and potentially severe and unpredictable physical and/or verbal outbursts. Teacher Aides are expected to:

• Helps teacher monitor class
• Aids students in travel from bus to classroom and return
• Assists student on a one-to-one basis or in small groups, following teacher's instructions
• Helps students during lunch periods, gym, music, etc
• Helps students to carry out prescribed physical exercises
• Helps with daily living skills/hygiene
• Follows medical protocols put in place
• Carries out all other teacher designed and supervised activities
• May require heavy lifting (50lbs or more), feeding, assisting with toileting, diapering, physical restraints, escorting and behavior management plans, getting up and down from the floor, walking with the student(s), getting into the swimming pool with the student(s)
• Job responsibility may require individual to do one and two-person lifts and/or physical interventions on a daily basis. Position requires the successful completion of all elements of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for schools (TCIS) training. Initial and refresher TCIS training is provided by GST BOCES.

The Greater Southern Tier BOCES does not discriminate in employment or in the education programs and activities which it operates on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity, religion, race, color, national origin or disability in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or § 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and New York State Human Rights Law.