Personal Care Provider

Position:       Personal Care Provider   

Qualifications:

                     1.  High School diploma or GED

                     2.  Knowledge of various disabilities

                     3.  Ability to handle demanding situations

                     4.  Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form

                     5.  Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships

                     6.  Ability to collect and monitor written data

                      7.  Must be able to physically perform the basic life operational functions of                              stooping, kneeling, crouching, reaching, standing, walking, grasping,                                  talking, hearing, and repetitive motion.

Reports to :   Principal/EC Director

Job Goal:       To provide services to identified special need child/children accoring to daily                          living skills deficits.  To provide assistance to special need child/children                              in order for them to obtain their educational services as outlined by IDEA.

Performance Responsibilities:                        

                      Monitor student(s) througout the day

                      Position non-ambulatory students

                      Assist with feeding and toileting needs of students

                      Reads to students, talks with them, encourages them daily

                      Assit with and monitor student(s) as they transition in the classroom                                  throughout the day

                      Assit with and monitor student(s) with travel/movement throughout the 

                      school building

                      Praises and reinforces achievement of student(s)

                      Provides clerical and technical assistance as needed

                      Documents student progress as required by the teacher or program

                      personnel

                      Performs related duties as assigned

Salary:           Edgcombe County Public Schools Classified Salary Schedule

Terms of Employment: Employment contingent upon performance evaluation and funding

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS  REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists; to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in standard English.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; and to utilize decimals and percentages.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of office machines, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with persons acting under stress.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

Disclaimer

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification.  It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees of this job.