5-day, 6.5-Hour MH Aide @ Central - MH Aide - (3-DAY Resultant BID

Multi-Handicapped Educational Aide

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED
• Valid Ohio educational aide certificate

Special Knowledge/

Skills:

• Ability to work well with children with disabilities
• Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
• Ability to perform physical care with students that includes feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene
• Ability to properly lift and move special needs students

Reports To:

• Multihandicapped Teacher
• Building Principal
• Director of Special Services

Contract Status: 9 Month

Time

Schedule:

6.5 hours per day (with 1/2 hour unpaid lunch)

Performance Responsibilities:

• Uphold and enforce school rules, administrative regulations, and state and local board policy
• Assist students with physical or behavioral disabilities according to their individualized needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning
• Assist students with physical care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene
• Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student's special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs
• Work with individual students or small groups to develop motor skills and conduct instructional exercises assigned by the teacher
• Keep the teacher informed of any special needs or problems of individual students
• Assist the teacher in preparing instructional materials and classroom displays
• Assist in maintaining a neat and orderly classroom
• Assist in inventory, care, and maintenance of equipment
• Assist teacher in keeping administrative records and preparing required reports
• Maintain confidentiality
• Observe all channels of communication within the building as established by the principal
• Notify the principal and teachers of absence
• Monitor students who are working with individualized programmed material
• Provide assistance to the special education teacher as the instructional program is implemented
• Supervise students individually and in small groups as learning activities are conducted in accordance with teacher directions
• Assemble materials, programs, and equipment prior to the arrival of the students
• Assist teacher with bulletin boards, duplication of materials, maintaining student charts, work folders, and other clerical duties as assigned by the teacher
• Help supervise arrival and departure of students
• Monitor students in the cafeteria, restroom, hallway, playground, during field trips, school assemblies, and special events, at snack, nap time, and before and after school

Working Conditions:

• Mental Demands/Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
• Maintain emotional control under stress
• Frequent standing, stooping, bending, kneeling, and therapeutic holding as required, regular lifting of students
• Biological exposure to bacteria and communicate diseases