Educational Assistant IV - Affective Needs

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Job Posting Title:

Educational Assistant IV - Affective Needs

    

Job Description:

Responsible for providing assistance to special education teachers. Assists in the instruction, medical, and health needs of special education students. Provides some clerical support to teachers. May provide assistance with a variety of daily functions such as toileting, feeding, and life skills instruction. Collaborates and consults with special needs team and other specialists. Develops and promotes good community relations among various community members and school clientele.

ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Occasional lifting of forty (40) to seventy (70) pounds
• Frequent bending, standing, sitting, walking
• Occasional reaching, kneeling, bending, squatting, or standing
• Ability to run short distances

    

Position Specific Information (if Applicable):

    

Responsibilities:

--- May assist students with a variety of daily functions, such as feeding, toileting, etc. as well as life skills instruction.

--- May provide assistance in some therapeutic activities such as speech, massage, and physical therapy.

--- Document health related services in designated Medicaid documentation system for the DCSD School Medicaid Reimbursement Program as assigned.

--- Maintain some student records.

--- May create and assemble instructional materials such as bulletin boards.

--- May administer medication to students and perform a variety of medical procedures.

--- Communicate with parents and other school personnel as needed.

--- Collaborate and consult with special education team and other specialists on various activities, planning and resource allocations for special education students.

--- Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

--- May supervise students in non-classroom settings, assist and escort students, including transferring to and from buses.

--- Provide clerical support for special education teachers which might include preparation of special reports.

--- Support Individual Education Plan (IEP) goals with special education students, assist with daily classroom or lab activities, including one on one and small group instruction.

    

Certifications:

First Aid & CPR Certification - American Heart Association

    

Education:

High School or Equivalent (Required)

    

Skills:

Position Type:

Regular

    

Primary Location:

Eldorado Elementary

    

One Year Only (Yes or No):

No

 

Scheduled Hours Per Week:

37.5

 

FTE:

0.94

    

Approx Scheduled Days Per Year:

180 Work Days

• (260 days indicates a year-round position.  Time off [or Off-Track Days] are then granted based on the position.  Any exceptions to the normal off-track time will be noted in the Additional Position Details section above, as scheduled work days.)

   

Minimum Hire Rate:

$19.84 USD Hourly

   

Maximum Hire Rate:

$25.20 USD Hourly

   

Full Salary Range:

$19.84 USD - $30.55 USD Hourly

• All salary amounts listed above are based on a full-time (1.0) FTE. If applicable, part-time salaries will be prorated according to the assigned FTE.

   

Benefits:

This position is eligible for health, vision, dental, health savings account (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), District paid and voluntary additional (supplemental) life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, short and long-term disability, critical illness and accident voluntary insurance, employee assistance program (EAP), voluntary 401(k), 403(b) and 457 retirement plan options.

Time Off Plans:

This position is eligible for paid sick and personal time.

This position will be open until filled, but will not be open past:

April 15, 2026