Child Attendant – Contracted- as needed for Future Openings

Child Specific Student(s) Attendant

Applicants will be contacted and interviewed as positions become available.

Job Description

Job Title: Child Specific Student(s) Attendant

Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED required as a minimum.
• Must be at least nineteen (19) years of age.
• Demonstrate an adequate command of oral and written language.
• Satisfactorily complete parish paraprofessional training program (when available).
• Additional criteria as established by the Pointe Coupee Parish School Board.

Report To: Teacher and principal

Job Goal: To assist in the instruction and motivation of all assigned students toward obtaining the highest possible level of competency.

Job Duties and Performance Responsibilities:

• Perform duties as they pertain to record keeping and instruction of assigned students.
• Assist in health needs, personal hygiene, and movement of students.
• Maintain a high degree of confidentiality.
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism.
• Monitor the health of the assigned students by maintaining visual contact throughout the school days.
• Review the child's health with administrators, teacher, and parents.
• Report problems to teachers.
• Verbally reinforce positive behavior.
• Assist in maintaining a clean and orderly arrangement of the classroom.
• Lift, support, and position students in wheelchairs, walkers, braces, and other adaptive equipment following the principles of safety as instructed by the teacher or therapist.
• Assist in self-help activities including feeding, diaper changing, toilet training, supervising toilet skills, changing clothes when toileting accidents occur.
• Transporting students to different locations on campus including playground, cafeteria, bus area, etc.
• Perform other duties as required and approved by appropriate personnel.

Evaluation: Evaluation shall be conducted in accordance with Point Coupee Parish School Board procedures.

Approved by:_________________________ Date:_________________

Reviewed and agreed to by:_____________ Date:________________