Personal Care Assistant​/Job Coach - Special Education

Personal Care Assistant and Job Coach

This is a 10 month calendar (8 hours per day) position covered by the WCHSSSA Collective Bargaining Agreement. Essential duties and responsibilities include attending to personal needs of disabled students, securing students into necessary equipment, calling for medical services when needed, helping students embark and debark from buses, escorting students to various locations, assisting educators and case managers, performing clerical tasks, becoming familiar with student accommodation plans, observing and recording student behavior, providing student assistance during evacuation drills, maintaining confidentiality, assisting with daily activities, assisting certified staff with students' behavior plan, maintaining safety of classroom environment, providing 1-1 assistance with feeding, toileting, personal hygiene, and protecting student privacy, transporting students in school vehicles, providing oversight for students in community/job placements, and carrying out other duties as assigned.

Supervisory responsibilities include none.

Education, certification, and experience include ISBE license or paraprofessional letter of approval required, experience working with persons with disabilities preferred, CPR/AED Certification desired, and School Bus Permit.

Skills and abilities

include the ability to perform all of the duties and responsibilities of the position, ability to communicate effectively and accurately, both orally and in writing, in English, ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with both internal and external constituents, ability to work independently, stay on task, multi-task, and take responsibility to complete assigned projects and duties in a timely and efficient manner.

Pay scale and benefit information is available on our website.

Equal educational and extracurricular opportunities shall be available for all students without regard to color, race, nationality, religion, sex, sexual orientation, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, gender identity, status of being homeless, immigration status, order of protection status, actual or potential marital or parental status, including pregnancy. The District will not knowingly enter into agreements with any entity or any individual that discriminates against students on the basis of sex or any other protected status, except that the District remains viewpoint neutral when granting access to school facilities under School Board Policy 8:20, Community Use of School Facilities.

Any student may file a discrimination grievance by using Board policy 2:260, Uniform Grievance Procedure. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies:
Kerry J. Foderaro, Interim Executive Director of Human Resources, 326 Joliet Street, West Chicago, IL 60185, .