What are the responsibilities and job description for the [2024-2025] Life Skills Aide/Attendant Port Arthur Elementary position at Bob Hope Elementary (Port Arthur)?
Opens: 2/10/2025
Closes: Until Filled
Job Title: Life Skills Aide/Attendant
Reports To: Campus Director
Department: Special Education / Bob Hope School / PA Elementary
Wage/Hour Status: Non-exempt/Full Time
Pay Grade: 2024-2025 Hourly Pay Scale
PRIMARY PURPOSE:
Assist teacher in preparation and management of classroom activities and administrative requirements. Attend to the physical needs and personal care of special education students with special needs on campus. Work under the general supervision of the principal and the immediate direction of a certified teacher and assist in group activities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education:
- High School Diploma or G.E.D. equivalency or higher.
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Ability to assist in instructing reading, writing, and mathematics
- Ability to work well with children with disabilities
- Ability to communicate effectively in English
- Ability to follow verbal and written instructions
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
EXPERIENCE
Experience working with children preferred
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Provide instruction to students under direct supervision of teacher.
- Conduct instructional exercises and implement specialized interventions and strategies for Newcomers/ELL students assigned by the teacher; work with individual students or small groups.
- Attend to students with physical disabilities according to their individualized needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, or positioning.
- Attend to students with physical needs and personal care including feeding, bathroom needs, and personal hygiene. This may include performing basic medical procedures under the training of a registered nurse such as tube feeding and suctioning a student with a tracheotomy
- Assist in classroom management.
- Assist in managing the behavior of students and crisis intervention, including restraining disruptive or dangerous physical behavior as needed.
- Conduct parent involvement activities.
- Assist in group activities.
- Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to each student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs
- Responsible for supervising students throughout the school day, both inside and outside the classroom including lunchroom, bus duty, and playground.
- Assist teacher in preparing instructional materials and classroom displays as needed.
- Help maintain neat and orderly classroom.
- Help with inventory, care, and instructional resources.
- Help teacher keep administrative records and prepare required reports.
- Provide orientation and assistance to substitute teachers as needed.
- Must be team oriented and able to assist in the care and safety of all special needs children on the campus.
- Keep teacher informed of special needs or problems of individual students.
- Assist in maintaining routine in the absence of the teacher
- Maintain a neat and orderly area
- Assist in inventory, care and maintanence of equipment.
- Participate in staff development training programs to improve job performance.
- Participate in department meetings and special events as assigned.
- Must maintain confidentiality
- Perform other duties as assigned
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Equipment Used:
Uses wheelchair lift, ramps, Hoyer lift and other equipment as required. Computer with appropriate software, printer, calculator, copier, facsimile machine, overhead projector, DVD/VCR, and other specialized equipment that is particularly unique to the teaching assignment.
Mental Demands:
Maintain emotional control under stress.
Physical Demands/Environmental Factors:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Frequent standing, stooping, bending, twisting, kneeling, pushing, pulling, regular moderate lifting and/or restraint of students and working on the floor.
- Move and carry small stacks of textbooks, media equipment, desks, and other classroom equipment.
- May have exposure to biological hazards.
- Occasional moderate lifting up to 50 pounds.
This job description has been reviewed to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the District reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the District may deem appropriate.
ABOUT BOB HOPE SCHOOL
Bob Hope School is a growing open-enrollment public charter school (non-profit) providing parents a choice in their child's education. Bob Hope Elementary is a Montessori / Dual-Language campus. Instruction is conducted in a two-way immersion program, where teachers fluent in English teach ELA and those fluent in Spanish teach SLA and are supported by teacher aides with a strong command of both languages. Campuses are located in Port Arthur, Beaumont, and Baytown, Texas. The Hughen Center, Inc. is the charter holder of Bob Hope School.
Bob Hope School provides equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability
