What You’ll Bring
Need to Have
- High school graduate or GED recipient.
- Prefer two years of successful experience as a paraprofessional in a program for youth with autism, emotional and/or behavior disorders or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrates continuous learning as it relates to instructional, behavioral and therapeutic interventions for assigned students.
- Ability to read, comprehend written material, and write at a level sufficient to assist in student instruction. Able to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, fractions and decimals. Ability to perform math tasks involving consumer math, probability, pre-algebra and algebra. Skills need to be at a level sufficient to assist in student instruction.
- Ability to apply common sense understanding and learned skills in responding to challenging behaviors by students. Ability to generalize concepts/skills learned in one situation and apply those concepts/skills to new situations.
- Ability to work with students who have severe disabilities. Ability to develop effective working relationships with students, staff and the school community. Ability to perform duties with awareness of all district requirements and Board of Education policies. Self-directedness and initiative when given a variety of tasks and responsibilities. Demonstrates understanding of student and family confidentiality.
- While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk or hear and must possess physical abilities sufficient to employ physical intervention strategies when necessary, i.e. nonviolent crisis intervention techniques. These abilities include reaching with hands and arms; using hands to finger, handle or feel objects and tools; stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, maintaining balance, being able to regularly lift 50 lbs., and push/pull up to 100 lbs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and peripheral vision. Auditory abilities necessary for this job include being able to tell where a sound is coming from and hear in a noisy environment. The employee must possess physical abilities sufficient to employ physical intervention strategies when necessary, i.e. non-violent crisis intervention techniques.
