20-21 SPECIAL ED AIDE I, St. Nicholas

2020-2021 School Year

Idaho School for the Deaf and Blind - 2.5 hours/day, 4 days/week

Anticipated Start Date: 01/04/2021

Required: Associates degree, 49 hours of college credits, or Para-Educator State Test Certificate

TThe Special Education Aide classification, in addition, provides assistance to special education teachers, assisting in the implementation of students’ Individual Education Plans (IEPs). The position works with students with a variety of physical, emotional, and learning disabilities and may work with an individual student or groups of students, both in a separate classroom facility or facilitating inclusion into a regular classroom. The position may be assigned to either an elementary or secondary school. The principal duties of the position are performed in a classroom environment and may include exposure to body fluids and some personal injury risk from student behaviors.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee

is required to communicate effectively on the telephone and in person and hear sounds within the normal range of conversation; prepare and review documents and process them in a prescribed order and organize documents and materials; comprehend situations involving the care and safety of special needs students requiring an appropriate response; to perform feeding, bathroom assistance, personal hygiene, and other operations required for the care of special needs students; operate a keyboard or type, handle materials, and operate standard office equipment; lift or move objects that weigh up to 50 lbs and team-lifting up to 100 lbs; physically restrain a student; and to work in a special needs and classroom environment. Jobs in this class require performing repetitive hand movement in gripping, fingering and hand/wrist/arm movements. Related job tasks may require, with or without reasonable accommodation, walking, standing, sitting, lifting, stooping, squatting, kneeling, bending, crouching, pushing, grasping, and reaching.