Certified Nursing Assistant
Northern High School
2025-26
Job Summary: Under the supervision of the teacher, the CNA will support students by providing individualized care to meet specific health needs and help the student achieve their academic and independence goals. This role involves working closely with teachers, intervention specialists, and other school staff to track student care needs and progress.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide one-on-one or team care to students needing additional support.
- Observe and document student performance and progress.
- Maintain accurate records of student assessments, progress reports, and other data as required.
- Provide feedback to teachers and intervention specialists on student progress and areas needing further support.
- Remove and put on outer clothing for arrival, recess and dismissal times.
- Assists in lifting and positioning student, diapering, opening thermos/carton, lunch line, feeding, convenient seating at group activities, maintaining time schedules, etc.
- Supervise playground, offsite activities and an independent wheelchair/walker travel to assure safety.
- Assist with medical needs, which may include catheterizing removal and attaching of splints/casts/braces.
- Accompany student in the pool.
- Observe students for the purpose of charting behavior and offer assistance in the administration of behavior modification principles.
- Fill out, distribute and/or collect checklists.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Regular and consistent attendance.
- Must have knowledge of and comply with the policies and procedures contained in the Portage Public Schools Employee Handbook.
- Reinforce instruction by administering drill activities for individuals or small groups.
- Administer and score standardized and criterion referenced tests or teacher made tests.
- Monitor student to develop independence in daily living skills.
- Assist in supervising during non-instructional periods such as snack time, study hall and/or lunch period, free time and/or recess, bathroom breaks, and preparation for gym, lunch, bus, etc.
- Transfer students to and from bus.
- Physically restrain students as needed
- Assist in implementing behavior management programs.
The above duties and responsibilities are intended to be representative of the nature of the work by this position. The listing is not all-inclusive.
Qualifications:
- Certified Nursing Assistant Certification or Medical Assistant Certification.
- The equivalent of 2 years of college (60 semester credits), an Associate’s degree, or CNA/MA/PCA Certification.
- A high degree of patience, ability and willingness to learn new skills and take direction.
- Ability to demonstrate confidentiality, ethics, technical skills, and clinical knowledge.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with district staff and the public.
- Ability to assume responsibility, display initiative, and exercise good judgment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- 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.
Please apply online at: https://www.portageps.org/page/employment-at-pps
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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.
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