Educational Assistant IV - Affective

Job Posting Title

Educational Assistant IV - Affective Needs

Responsible for providing assistance to special education teachers. Assists in the instruction, medical, and health needs of special education students. Provides some clerical support to teachers. May provide assistance with a variety of daily functions such as toileting, feeding, and life skills instruction. Collaborates and consults with special needs team and other specialists. Develops and promotes good community relations among various community members and school clientele.

• Occasional lifting of forty (40) to seventy (70) pounds
• Frequent bending, standing, sitting, walking
• Occasional reaching, kneeling, bending, squatting, or standing
• Ability to run short distances

• Provide clerical support for special education teachers which might include preparation of special reports.
• Support Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals with special education students, assist with daily classroom or lab activities, including one on one and small group instruction.
• May assist students with a variety of daily functions, such as feeding, toileting, etc. as well as life skills instruction.
• May provide assistance in some therapeutic activities such as speech, massage, and physical therapy.
• Document health related services in designated Medicaid documentation system for the DCSD School Medicaid Reimbursement Program as assigned.
• Maintain some student records.
• May create and assemble instructional materials such as bulletin boards.
• May administer medication to students and perform a variety of medical procedures.
• Communicate with parents and other school personnel as needed.
• Collaborate and consult with special education team and other specialists on various activities, planning and resource allocations for special education students.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.
• May supervise students in non-classroom settings, assist and escort students, including transferring to and from buses.

First Aid & CPR Certification - American Heart Association

High School or Equivalent (Required)

Position Type:
Regular

Primary

Location:

Pine Lane Intermediate

No

37.5

0.94

180 Work Days

• (260 days indicates a year-round position. Time off [or Off-Track Days] are then granted based on the position. Any exceptions to the normal off-track time will be noted in the Additional Position Details section above, as scheduled work days.)

$19.84 USD Hourly

$25.20 USD Hourly

$19.84 USD - $30.55 USD Hourly

• All salary amounts listed above are based on a full-time (1.0) FTE. If applicable, part-time salaries will be prorated according to the assigned FTE.

This position is eligible for health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options.

This position is eligible for paid sick and personal time.

Please complete this application using your full legal name as it appears on your government issued forms of identification when you have time to go from start to finish. Application details cannot be saved along the way, and you must complete and submit the application in one sitting. If you leave your computer and return later, you may time out.

REMINDER:
Current DCSD employees must apply through their district log-on, this application is for external candidates only!

This position will be open until filled, but will not be open past:
April 8, 2026.