Personal Care Provider

Edgecombe County Public Schools North Edgecombe High School - Tarboro, North Carolina Open in Google Maps

Starting Date: Immediately

Position: Personal Care Provider

• High School diploma or GED
• Knowledge of various disabilities
• Ability to handle demanding situations
• Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form
• Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships
• Ability to collect and monitor written data
• Must be able to physically perform the basic life operational functions of stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, grasping, talking, hearing, and repetitive motion.

Reports to: Principal/EC Director

Job Goal: To provide services to identified special need child/children according to daily living skills deficits. To provide assistance to special need child/children in order for them to obtain their educational services as outlined by IDEA.

• Monitor student(s) throughout the day
• Position non-ambulatory students
• Assist with feeding and toileting needs of students
• Reads to students, talks with them, encourages them daily
• Assist with and monitor student(s) as they transition in the classroom throughout the day
• Assist with and monitor student(s) with travel/movement throughout the school building
• Praise and reinforce achievement of student(s)
• Provides clerical and technical assistance as needed
• Documents student progress as required by the teacher or program personnel
• Performs related duties as assigned

Salary: Edgcombe County Public Schools Classified Salary Schedule

Terms of Employment: Employment contingent upon performance evaluation and funding

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; and to utilize decimals and percentages.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of office machines, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to…