Personal Care Assistant

Carteret County Public Schools East Carteret High School - Beaufort, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

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Job : 5752737

Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled

Re-Posted: Sep 11, 2026 4:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: Sep 28, 2026

Title
: Personal Care Assistant – Exceptional Children

Qualifications
:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Experience working with physically and/or behaviorally disabled children
• Preferred NC License to drive a school bus or the ability to get one.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Board may find appropriate and acceptable.

Reports to
:
Teacher

Supervises
: N/A

Job Goal
:

To assist the teacher by monitoring and assisting special needs students in the classroom and during other activities to ensure the provision of quality instruction in a safe environment.

Performance Responsibilities
:

• Follows all rules, policies, and procedures of Carteret County Public Schools, along with state and federal regulations pertaining to special education.
• Administers scores and records such achievement and diagnostic tests as the teacher recommends for individual students.
• Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher; create and modify materials to match student abilities.
• Assists the teacher in devising special strategies for reinforcing material or skills based on an understanding of individual students, their needs, interests, and abilities.
• Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Helps students master equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
• Monitors student behavior and helps maintain discipline in the classroom; records time-out and in-class suspensions; assists with crisis prevention; assist with de-escalation techniques with students as needed.
• Assists with the delivery of special services; assist with daily living skills; feed and toilet students if necessary; and assist with any other task students are unable to perform for themselves as directed by the supervising teacher.
• Assists students with mobility needs including transferring students to and from wheelchairs/toilets as well as any individual equipment.
• Collaborates with the supervising teacher to administer and/or monitor any therapy, medication, and/or special treatment required by a student or students.
• Constantly monitors the safety and well-being of students; employs strategies as necessary to protect a student, students, or others from injury; monitors student attitudes and encourages self-esteem.
• Collaborates with teachers to incorporate information provided by parents, doctors, nurses, therapists, and others in order to understand the needs of and provide services for students.
• Performs various clerical duties as needed, maintains records of student progress; develops and files incident reports; grades student papers; checks daily attendance; makes copies; distributes materials to students; develops classroom displays and instructional material; maintains and operates audiovisual equipment; maintain class files.
• Maintains the same high level of ethical behavior and confidentiality of information about students as is expected of teachers.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence. Participates in the development and support of special education programs.
• Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
• Alerts the regular teacher to any problem or special information about an individual student.
• Serves as the chief source of information and helps any…