Special Education Aide - Moderate​/Severe

Special Education Aide
- Moderate/Severe

• Position Type:
  Special Education/ Aide
  - Special Education
• Date Posted: 6/17/2026
• Location:
  
  Socastee High
• Closing Date: 06/24/2026

Special Education Aide

Reports to Building Principal

185 Days

Position provides assistance to teachers or other district personnel in the daily instruction and care of eligible students with disabilities. As a paraprofessional, the employee works under the direction of the teacher to monitor and address the instructional, personal, and behavioral needs of students. The individual's overall performance is evaluated by the principal or designee. Duties may vary depending on the age of the students served as well as the nature and severity of the student's disabilities.

Employees are subject to reassignment at any time by the District Office or the building principal in consultation with the District Special Education Office to meet the changing needs of students with disabilities within the school or District.

The required number of paid work hours is contingent upon position type (i.e., 7.5 or 7 hours). The employee's school day or work schedule is established by the building principal in consideration of the employee's required paid work hours.

• Assists with the implementation of Individualized Education Programs for students with disabilities under the direction of the classroom teacher(s) and/or service provider(s).
• Assists with individual or small group instruction developed and supervised by the teacher in the assigned class(es) including teaching, re-teaching and reviewing lessons, asking questions and prompting students and/or guiding independent work.
• Attends to the needs of students with disabilities that may include personal hygiene, lifting, feeding, toileting, monitoring supportive medical equipment such as walkers and wheelchairs, and/or facilitating the use of assistive technology.
• Escorts and supervises students in daily arrival and school departure, transitions between classes, the playground, cafeteria, transporting to and/or from school and/or off‑site learning activities.
• Collects, charts and reports student performance data to teachers and/or other service providers.
• Performs general clerical tasks for assigned classroom, including maintaining student records such as data books, portfolios and assignment folders.
• Distributes and collects instructional materials and reports.
• Assists with behavioral management programs in the classroom and implements behavior intervention plans and/or plans for independence for individual students.
• Participates in designated staff development needed to fulfill job duties. Paraprofessionals who may be required to physically restrain students to ensure their safety and the safety of others will be provided appropriate staff development.
• Maintains bulletin boards and classroom supply inventories, as appropriate.
• Provides intensive behavioral supports, as appropriate. Paraprofessionals who provide this IEP required service are required to participate in ongoing, supplemental staff development.
• Communicates with parents only under the direction and supervision of a teacher.
• Serves as an educational team member who collaborates and supports the efforts of school staff and the needs of all students with disabilities.

Performs any other related duties as assigned by the Principal or other appropriate administrator.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.

• Must meet the requirements for a paraprofessional which includes one of the following:
  • Minimum of 60 college credit hours, or an Associate's Degree from a regionally accredited college/university (Attach a copy of your transcript).
  • Paraprofessional certificate (minimum score of 456 on the exam) (Attach a copy of your test scores).
  • Passed all 4 areas of Work Keys (Attach a copy of all 4 tests results).

Knowledge, skills and abilities of this job include the following:

• Read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Write routine reports and correspondence.
• Apply common sense in the delivery, understanding and following instructions in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Perform basic arithmetic including addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals; compute rate, ratio and percent and draw and interpret bar graphs.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee is regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms; walk; sit; stoop or kneel; crouch or…