Westhill High School: Special Education Paraeducator - TEAM Program

Westhill High School:
Special Education Para educator - TEAM Program

• Date Posted: 8/31/2025
• Location:
  
  Stamford, CT
• Date Available:
  
  School Year

POSITION TITLE: PARA EDUCATOR – SPECIAL EDUCATION for Medically Fragile and Moderately to Severely Disabled Students

This program currently services students that are medically fragile and require nursing care. Students require adaptive equipment, specialized augmentative communication, and assistive technology in order to access their educational environment. Art and music therapy are provided to support the student’s ability to become connected to their environment. Students are assigned to the TEAM class as well as a general education class in order to support inclusive opportunities and maintain a relationship with their community.

Related services can include speech therapy, social skills, occupational therapy, and physical therapy.

To serve as an integral member of the student support team to provide services to students in accordance with the goals/objectives identified by the Individual Education Plan (IEP) with the overarching goal of promoting student independence and autonomy.

Certified Staff Professional(s) and/or appropriate Administrator

• Support students in increasing capacity to perform tasks independently by using strategies that gradually release responsibilities to students.
• Work with individual students or small groups of students, under the supervision of a certified teacher, to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
• Record achievements and diagnostic tests, under the direction of the teacher, for individual students or groups of students.
• Assist the teacher in the handling, operation, and care of equipment used in the classroom, including media and instructional materials, assistive technology, and augmentative communication devices.
• Assist with daily living needs, such as feeding and bathroom accommodations (i.e., toileting, diapering).
• Guide activities of daily living, sensory diets, OT/PT programs.
• Ability to assist with physical transfers into wheelchairs, standers and other adaptive equipment.
• Assist with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, field trips, and in other non-classroom activities.
• Support with implementation of goals and objectives (IEP) as assigned by certified staff, and maintain strict confidentiality of the same.
• Serve as the chief source of information and help to any substitute teacher assigned in the absence of the regular teacher.
• Assist with implementation of Health Care plans for students and other medical needs.
• Alert the teacher(s) regarding any problem or special information related to an individual student.

• Assist with the supervision of students during lunch, recess, arrival and dismissal, assemblies, emergency drills, play periods, field trips, and in other non-classroom activities, as assigned.
• Participate in professional development training programs, as required.
• Perform other related duties, as assigned.

• Willingness to learn and adapt to best practice strategies for supporting students with IEPs, including encouraging independence and autonomy for students.
• Willingness to assist and monitor medically fragile students supervised by nurse (training provided as needed).
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions effectively.
• Exhibited proficiency in basic reading, math, writing, and speaking English.
• Possession or willingness to acquire the skills necessary to work productively with children.
• Appropriate reading, spelling, writing, and math skills to support student.
• Physical condition commensurate with the demands of, at a minimum, the essential functions of the position.
• Exhibited good judgment, patience, tact, and courtesy.
• Demonstrated use and maintenance of ethical practices for confidential communication about students.

• Must follow the Every Student Succeeds Act…