Paraeducator - Student @ Holmes Elementary School Cont

As a Spokane Public Schools staff member, you'll uphold our commitment to creating a loving and collaborative learning community where all students belong and thrive. We are looking for team members who embrace differences, have a desire to work with a diverse community of learners, have a heart for the humans they serve, work as a team, grow and reflect through feedback, are lifelong learners and positive problem solvers.

Provides continuous, individualized support to a specifically assigned student whose disability-related medical, mobility, physical care, safety, or access needs require dedicated assistance throughout the school day to safely access and participate in educational programming.

• Provide consistent direct support for a specifically assigned student’s mobility, positioning, transfers, lifting, physical access, and daily care needs across school environments.
• Carry out delegated student‑specific medical and health care procedures as trained, including G‑tube feeding, suctioning, seizure response, and other approved health supports.
• Support ongoing personal care and toileting needs while maintaining student dignity, privacy, and safety.
• Assist the assigned student in accessing instruction, transportation, transitions, meals, recess, and other daily school activities.
• Implement individualized student support plans including Health Care Plans, IEPs, 504 plans, OT/PT guidance, Behavior Intervention Plans, and safety plans with consistency and fidelity.
• Utilize adaptive equipment, mobility devices, lifts, positioning tools, and Assistive Technology specific to the assigned student as trained.
• Monitor, collect, and document student‑specific data as directed to assist teams in monitoring effectiveness of support and adjusting interventions.
• Maintain ongoing communication with case managers, related service providers, nursing staff, and administrators regarding implementation of the student’s supports.
• Complete required CPI, de‑escalation, medical, and student‑specific safety training.
• Demonstrate physical ability to perform lifting, transfers, repositioning, toileting, and other intensive physical support responsibilities throughout the workday.

• Hours/Day: 7
• Continuing Role
• Daily Start/End times: 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
• Anticipated
  
  Start Date:
  
  ASAP
• Benefits--Medical/Dental/Vision through SEBB (School Employee Benefits Board) are provided for employees who work at least 630 hours per academic year.
• Additional benefits may include vacation, sick, personal days, and paid holidays.
• Often, positions have additional pay provisions above what is represented on the salary schedule, all in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreements (if applicable) as negotiated.

SALARY: LEVEL 35 on the Para educator (formerly Instructional Assistant) Salary Schedule. Experience increments depend on experience in the same or similar permanent position within a Washington State public school or another state’s public school.