Role

• Education support staff member for 1:1 care of student with a disability
• 1:1 care of a student with high medical needs; following procedures determined by Royal Children Hospital Community Care team, and after appropriate training.

Responsibilities

The responsibilities of this position will be:

Specific duties:

• ES staff will be assigned to a specific student and provide specific medical support for this student
• Undertake specific Royal Children’s Hospital (RCH) training to support designated student

General duties

General educational support including:

• supporting student communication and learning including using specialised equipment
• coactive assistance to access programs
• recording student progress under the guidance of a teacher
• yard duty including supporting student in recreational activities

Physically supporting and working with student including:

• in classroom and recreational programs
• lifting and hoisting

Moving student in wheelchair around the school, to and from buses, and on excursions including:

• pushing manual wheelchair
• engaging and disengaging brakes
• harnessing wheelchair in buses
• steering power wheelchair

Maintaining personal care of student as required including:

• mealtime assistance
• dressing and undressing student
• toileting assistance
• full support of student’s personal needs on campus and excursions

Attending to medical needs:

• care and management of tracheostomy
• care and management of CPAP machine
• monitoring and supporting student’s safety, health and wellbeing

Administrative duties:

• other duties as outlined in the EBA 2017
• other duties as designated by the Principal