PARAEDUCATOR - STUDENT @ LEWIS & CLARK HIGH SCHOOL, 7 HRS, CONT.

***As a Spokane Public Schools staff member, you'll uphold our commitment to creating a loving and collaborative learning community where all students belong and thrive.*** We are looking for team members who embrace differences, have a desire to work with a diverse community of learners, have a heart for the humans they serve, work as a team, grow and reflect through feedback, are lifelong learners and positive problem solvers. Provides continuous, individualized support to a specifically assigned student whose disability-related medical, mobility, physical care, safety, or access needs require dedicated assistance throughout the school day to safely access and participate in educational programming. - Provide consistent direct support for a specifically assigned student’s mobility, positioning, transfers, lifting, physical access, and daily care needs across school environments. - Carry out delegated student-specific medical and health care procedures as trained, including G-tube feeding, suctioning, seizure response, and other approved health supports. - Support ongoing personal care and toileting needs while maintaining student dignity, privacy, and safety. - Assist the assigned student in accessing instruction, transportation, transitions, meals, recess, and other daily school activities. - Implement individualized student support plans including Health Care Plans, IEPs, 504 plans, OT/PT guidance, Behavior Intervention Plans, and safety plans with consistency and fidelity. - Utilize adaptive equipment, mobility devices, lifts, positioning tools, and Assistive Technology specific to the assigned student as trained. - Monitor, collect, and document student-specific data as directed to assist teams in monitoring effectiveness of support and adjusting interventions. - Maintain ongoing communication with case managers, related service providers, nursing staff, and administrators regarding implementation of the student’s supports. - Complete required CPI, de-escalation, medical, and student-specific safety training. - Demonstrate physical ability to perform lifting, transfers, repositioning, toileting, and other intensive physical support responsibilities throughout the workday. - **Hours/Day: 7** - **Continuing Role** - **Daily Start/End times: 7:30 AM - 3:00 pm** - **Anticipated Start Date: August 20, 2026** - **Benefits--Medical/Dental/Vision through SEBB (School Employee Benefits Board) are provided for employees who work at least 630 hours per academic year.** - **Additional benefits may include vacation, sick, personal days, and paid holidays.** - **Often, positions have additional pay provisions above what is represented on the salary schedule, all in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreements (if applicable) as negotiated.** SALARY: LEVEL 35 on the Paraeducator (formerly Instructional Assistant) Salary Schedule. Experience increments depend on experience in the same or similar permanent position within a Washington State public school or another state's public school. [DOWNLOAD SALARY SCHEDULE](https://www.spokaneschools.org/documents/community/job-openings/salaries-%26-benefits/salary-schedules/2026-27-salary-schedules---effective-sept.-1%2C-2026/27966211#docaccess-4b1d16186855c7dd0b9b323727919769) 1. Provide instruction in core academic areas designed by the teachers/specialists. Assist the special education teacher/general education teacher in the implementation of the student Individual Education Plan, including student accommodations and modifications. Assist the teacher in preparing materials and collecting and recording data. 2. Participate as a contributing member of a collaborative team. Assist the teacher in implementing behavioral and social skills programs as designed and supervised by certificated staff. Under the supervision of certificated staff, implement the district de-escalation and soft-restraint techniques as needed. 3. Assist students with physical and mobility needs and perso…