Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Title:

Personal Care Assistant I (Temporary)

Reports to:

Classroom Teacher

Terms of Employment:

Days the student is in attendance

Salary:

$15.00 an hour/No Benefits

Qualifications:

High School Graduate

Preferred : 48 Semester Hours or Associate's Degree

Job Goals:

To work closely with one or more identified handicapped learners on a regular basis in an effort to provide them with the physical help and emotional support they need to gain maximum benefit from regular and/or special education programs

Duties and Responsibilities:

Assists the student(s) to whom assigned in such physical tasks as putting on and taking off outerwear, moving from room to room, using the lavatory, and so on

Hears the student(s) in recitation, reading, and other curriculum tasks, guiding and helping them but not teaching them

Performs simple errands and tasks for student(s) such as sharpening pencils, carrying lunch trays and the like

Under supervision of the teacher, works with small groups of students to reinforce material initially introduced by the teacher

Establishes as fully as possible a supportive and sympathetic relationship with the student(s) without fostering or encouraging intense emotional involvement

Serves as a resource person, if and when requested, to the student personnel evaluation team conferring about one of the students to whom assigned

Perform medically-related services for exceptional student(s) as assigned or delegated by a nurse, physician, or therapist for which training has been provided

Provides assistance to student(s) in the areas of hygiene and nutrition, including toileting, bathing and feeding based upon the student's individual program

Notifies teachers and parent when medication administered at school is no longer in supply or when medication effects change

Provides assistance in emergency situations to any student(s) who is health impaired, wheelchair bound, or seizure disordered

Assist other classroom when primary student is not present