Special Needs Assistant

GRADE: G7 (Hourly Range/Step 1 - Step 8: $20.27 - $24.99)

MINIMUM HOURLY RATE: $20.27

STANDARD HOURS PER WEEK: 15

FTE: 0.375

JOB CODE: 100506

POSITION TYPE: PERMANENT/REGULAR

LOCATION: THORNTON, CO.

Adams 12 Five Star Schools is deeply committed to a community of excellence, equity, and inclusion in everything we do. We commit to eliminate the predictability of who is included in excellence and who is not. Adams 12 Five Star Schools puts students first and supports our district's mission to elevate student success for every student every day in every classroom.

Candidates who can contribute to our goal are encouraged to apply and to identify their strengths in this area.

Assist children with significant support needs (SSN) by providing specialized individualized child care, education, and recreational activities and during field trips. Duties include providing direction, guidance and assistance to students; effectively handling student discipline situations; ensuring student safety and security; monitoring behaviors and functional life skills; communicating with parents, staff, teachers, site director and site leader; opening, closing and securing school building;

preparing snacks; providing infant and child care including feeding and diapering; cleaning classroom areas; recording attendance, assisting sick or injured students; and creating new activities. Assists student in maintaining personal health and hygiene functions; assists students to and from classes and bus stops.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Frequency and percentage of time may vary based on building assignment.

• Provide supervision and support in before and after school (BASE) setting in order for students to fully and safely participate in program activities. Assists SSN students by supervising, guiding, monitoring, and encouraging acceptable social behavior, during child care, crafts, art projects, games and other activities. Provide developmental stimulation and ensure the student's needs are being met. Records attendance and contacts parents regarding absent students.
• Assist special needs students in performing daily routines, including getting to and from class and bus stops, field trips, using toilets, diapering, feeding and personal hygiene. Assist student with medical needs including working with trach, feeding tubes, catheterization, distribute and administer medicine to students as directed and provide general First Aid when needed. Sanitize, disinfect and clean learning environment and general work area of all bodily fluids.
• Provide assistance to site directors and leaders including but not limited to communicating with parents and other staff regarding child behavior or program information; calling parents to get authorization for an unauthorized adult to pick up the student from the program and checking identification of adult; preparing snacks and cleaning the activity and kitchen areas after use; opening and closing school building;
  
  and securing school building at the end of the program by locking doors and turning off lights.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Must have at least three (3) months (455 hours) of verified experience in the care and supervision of four (4) or more children over the ages of four (4) who are not related to the individual.
• Experience working with special needs students preferred.

• Criminal background check required for hire.
• Ability to successfully complete a pre‑hire, post‑offer physical examination.
• CPR, First Aid and Universal Precautions certifications required within 90 days after entering position. Will be required to take medication administration training as needed.
• Universal Precautions training required within 3 months after entering position.

All Classified positions are paid on an hourly basis. All Newly hired classified employees are placed initially on Step 1 of the pay grade for their position. Classified employees can advance an additional 7 steps (maximum Step
8) based on their previous experience. Final hourly placement on the Classified Salary schedule is dependent on the Grade Level for the position being posted and employees' previous work experience. "Grade" refers to position or job classification and "Step" refers to the number of work experience credit or service years. See our Classified Salary Schedule for hourly rates. For additional compensation information, please refer to The Classified Master Agreement.

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