Instructional Assistant, Early Intervention

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Associate Degree or Highly Qualified Status, preferred.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a team environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to maintain complete confidentiality.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills, demonstrated by patience, understanding, and congeniality to effectively work with exceptional learning needs students and staff.
• Demonstrates excellent oral and written communication skills to effectively instruct and work with students.
• Demonstrates the ability to understand basic educational terminology regarding students, programs, roles, and instructional activities.
• Demonstrates the ability to complete tasks with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Attends work regularly at assigned work hours subject to lawful leave rights and responsibilities.
• Engages in activities to increase one's own knoweldge and skills, completing twenty hours of professional dvelopment annually.
• Ability to stand, bend, stoop, sit, lift, reach, and communicate (vision, hearing, and speech) to effectively carry out functions, duties, and responsibilities.
• Ability to independently ambulate in and around work areas.
• Ability to travel to and from assigned work locations without employer support.
• Ability to exhibit appropriate manual dexterity to effectively carry out functions, duties, and responsibilities.
• Ability to conduct a safety restraint protocol which requires:

Authority: The Instructional Assistant will have the authority to perform all functions listed below in accordance with established policies and procedures.

Functions/Duties/Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function/duty/responsibility at acceptable standards.

In accordance with both state and/or federal law, reasonable accommodations will be considered upon employee request.

Essential :

• Assists in teaching responsibilities, working with students individually and in small groups on academic/developmentally-appropriate activities, social interactions, communication, practical life skills, and behavior management.
• Monitors students and continues classroom activities if teacher is interrupted and/or involved in other program activities.