Position Type:
School Support Staff/Instructional Assistant
Date Posted:
6/18/2024
Location:
Cartwright Early Childhood
Date Available:
07/29/2024
Closing Date:
Until filled
Classified Pre-K Special Education Assistant - Full Time
For the 2024-2025 School Year Only (based on grant funding)
FOUR DAY WORK WEEK FOR SCHOLARS AND EMPLOYEES!
JOB GOAL
Responsible for assisting teachers with personal care, safety, behavioral needs and classroom activities for preschool children.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to read and write in order to communicate and receive instruction, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the job such as those listed above.
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certification
- First Aid Training
- High School Diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (G.E.D.)
- Fingerprint card
- TB test
- First Aid/CPR
- Food Handlers Card
PERFORMANCE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Monitors progress and assignments under teacher direction.
- Monitors children’s behaviors inside and outside classroom.
- Assists with clean-up and other related tasks following daily activities.
- Prepares classroom for activities, including organizing assignments and preparing homework folders.
- Creates bulletin boards, maintains materials and supplies, contacts parents and may make copies.
- May attend in-service training sessions.
- Performs other duties of a similar nature or level
- Positions in this class typically require: stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, lifting, fingering, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and seeing
- Incumbents may be subjected to blood and other body fluids
- Medium Work: Exerting up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects
Positions assigned to assist Early Childhood Special Education children may be responsible for:
- Assisting with personal care
- Assisting with activities of daily living
- Assisting with functional communication
- Assisting with student physical and physiological requirements
- Assisting with assistive technology and other adaptive equipment
- Assisting with goals and objectives as directed by related service providers
- Assisting with supporting inclusion opportunities in social realms
- Assisting with behavioral management
- Assisting with functional life-skill development
KNOWLEGE AND SKILLS
- Knowledge of applicable Federal, state, county and city statutes, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
- Knowledge of applicable Cartwright School District and departmental policies and procedures.
- Early Childhood Development
- Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction
- Basic reading, writing and mathematical skills
- Basic safety procedures and guidelines
Monitoring and redirecting children
- Monitoring and assisting children with activities under teacher supervision
- Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with coworkers, supervisor, the general public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to receive work direction
TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT
REPORTS TO: Site Administrator
LOCATION: Cartwright Early Childhood Center (CECC)
SUPERVISES: NA
CALENDAR: 10 month
JOB CATEGORY: Classified
BEGINNING SALARY: ESP Salary Schedule; As approved by the Governing Board
BENEFITS: As approved by the Governing Board
FLSA STATUS: Non-Exempt
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: Until filled