Special Education Assistant RS

Job Description

Qualifications

• Not less than a high school diploma or general equivalency diploma (copy of diploma or transcript must be submitted upon employment), and proof of additional training from one of the following: an associate’s degree, a minimum of 48 semester hours of higher level education, or passing a state‑mandated equivalency test.
• Meets health and physical requirements.

Job Goal

To assist teachers in providing specialized academic and physical training to students with disabilities.

Essential Functions

• Attend to the student’s personal needs (including, but not limited to, the changing of diapers).
• Help students walk, board buses, put on prosthetic appliances, eat, dress, and perform other physical activities as their needs arise.
• Provide clerical assistance to teachers and others.
• Assist with student management.
• Set up and operate learning/development equipment and materials.
• Tutor students.
• Assume responsibility for knowing and following the safety rules and proper procedures associated with the responsibilities of the job.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands

• May require lifting objects that exceed fifty (50) pounds or the average weight of a student.
• Include pushing and/or pulling, climbing, stooping, kneeling and/or crawling, reaching, talking, hearing, and seeing.

Temperament (Personal Traits)

• Adaptability to performing a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure.
• Adaptability to accepting responsibility for the direction, control, or planning of an activity.
• Adaptability to dealing with students.
• Adaptability to making generalizations, evaluations, or decisions based on sensory or judgmental criteria.

Capacity and Ability Requirements

• Intelligence:
  Ability to understand instructions and underlying principles; ability to reason and make judgments.
• Verbal:
  Ability to understand meanings of words and the ideas associated with them.
• Form Perception:
  Ability to make visual comparisons and discrimination and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures, widths, and lengths of lines.
• Manual Dexterity:
  Ability to move hands easily and manipulate small objects with the fingers.
• Color Discrimination:
  Ability to perceive or recognize similarities or differences in colors or shades or other values of the same color.

Work Conditions

Normal working environment – usually 180 school days from 7:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Identified special need(s) of student(s) may require the normal work hours to change.

Non‑exempt from the requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act regarding pay for overtime work.

Job Requirements

• High school/Trade School degree preferred.
• Citizenship, residency or work visa required.

Job : 5736429

Final date to receive applications: Jun 19, 2026 11:59 PM (Central Standard Time)

Re‑Posted: Jun 01, 2026 5:00 AM (UTC)

Starting Date: To Be Determined

Position Type: Full‑Time

Giles County School District, TN – Richland School, Lynnville, Tennessee.