Personal Care Assistant (PCA)

Company: Scotland County Schools, NC
Location: Laurel Hill
Posted on: April 23, 2025

Job Description:

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

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