Para-educator

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Employment Type: Part-Time

Salary: Competitive

Job Description

Para Educator Summary Description: The role of a special education para-educator is to provide assistance in implementing plans and programs related to the academic or functional skill attainment for students with visual, language, social, cognitive, physical, and/or emotional learning challenges. Works directly with students, individually or in small groups, and performs clerical tasks as assigned.

Essential Responsibilities

• Assists classroom teacher in teaching a variety of skills to students who are visually impaired and/or multiple handicapped
• Works directly with students individually and / or in groups under the direction of the teacher
• Ability to lift and carry non-ambulatory students
• Prepare materials and equipment to be used by the students in the classroom
• Follow through on teacher’s lesson plans, classroom routine, assigned tasks and direction from therapists
• Provide assistance to students in daily routines such as eating, toileting, positioning and handling (lifting), data documentation and other clerical tasks
• Adhere to agency policy and protocol
• Ability to maintain confidentiality
• Be flexible to assist where there is a need
• Attend scheduled staff development training and meetings
• Complete Medicaid documentation
• Ability to move body in many different ways in order to interact with and position students such as: standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, pushing and pulling consistently throughout the day and in a daily basis
• Required to routinely lift up to 50 pounds

Requirements

• Genuine interest to work with children
• Ability to follow direction and adapt to new and/or unique situations
• Ability to establish rapport and appropriate relationships with students and their families
• Demonstrate a progression in knowledge and skills through job performance
• Able to maintain confidentiality

Personal Characteristics

• Accountable
• Trustworthy
• Critical thinker
• Collaborative
• Belief that all children can learn
• Celebrates progress
• Strong awareness of self

Licenses/Special Requirements

• High school education or equivalent
• Current Level 1 IVP Fingerprint Clearance Card
• Current certification in CPR, AED and First Aid
• Article 9
• Basic computer and keyboard skills
• Helpful if able to read, write and speak Spanish