Summary of essential job functions

Responsibilities encompass the overall management of SPACS participants within a direct care group.

The outline of detail that is included in that role is as follows:

Gives close continuous supervision on an individual basis within the following categories:

• Physically dependant with multiple needs (i.e. the participant requires assistance at all times for feeding, dressing, toileting, mobility and personal hygiene).

• Severe behavior disorders (i.e. the participant consistently/persistently demonstrates extremely disruptive, antisocial behavior and/or demonstrates profound withdrawal or internalizing behaviors which may be of danger to self and/or others).

• Severe handicapped (i.e. students that have a moderate to severe/profound intellectual disability, physical disabilities of chronic health impairment, visual impairment, deaf, hard of hearing or autistic).

• Teaching either individual participants or small groups of participants within, or outside, the class.

• Developing and adapting conventional teaching methods to meet the individual needs of participants.

• Using special equipment and facilities, such as audio-visual materials and computers to stimulate interest in learning.

• Using specialist skills, such as teaching Braille to participants with visual impairments or sign language and lip reading to students who have hearing impairments.

• Collaborating with the Curriculum Specialist to define appropriate activities for the participants in relation to the curriculum.

• Assessing participant who have long- or short-term learning difficulties, and working with colleagues to identify individual participants' special strengths.

• Working with individuals that are on the Autism spectrum

• Liaising closely with parents and guardians.

• Managing off-site activities, such as community outings or sporting events.

• Assisting in severely disabled participants' personal care needs.

• Administration, including updating and maintaining daily records on participants' progress.

• Attending meetings and in-service training.