Job Description

PARAPROFESSIONAL / PARAEDUCATOR (ALL BOROUGHS) - NYC

RCM Health Care Services is currently looking for Paraprofessionals in all boroughs of NYC!

Part-Time and Full-Time Opportunities available

Hours: 7:30am - 4:30pm

Responsibilities:

• Working 1:1 with a student within a classroom to provide adult supervision.

• Communicate with child and help them understand lessons

• Engage with child to enhance learning

• Perform clerical tasks as required

• As a paraprofessional, you may be assigned to a student that has:

• A medical diagnosis that requires attentive supervision and additional adult intervention and/or

• Significant unsafe behaviors due to a behavior and/or emotional disability that requires the supervision of an adult

• You may be expected collaborate with teachers and other supporting staff when needed on behalf of your assigned student regarding behavior plans

Qualifications:

• Experience as a paraprofessional or helping teachers in a classroom preferred
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and social attributes
• Patient with children including those with special needs
• Ability to stand and move around for long hours at a time

Training will be provided with a full day of Nonviolent Crisis Prevention. This training includes a physical intervention unit to provide hands on experience with physical restrictive holds as well as verbal tactics to deescalate your assigned student.

COVID-19 precautions

• Remote interview process
• Personal protective equipment provided or required
• Temperature screenings
• Social distancing guidelines in place
• Sanitizing, disinfecting, or cleaning procedures in place

Company Description

RCM Health Care Services’ mission is to provide opportunities for qualified candidates across medical professions. We deliver timely results and have built a reputation of trust with our clients and candidates. Since 1975, we have been providing staffing solutions to many of the finest healthcare institutions across the nation and careers for thousands of candidates. As professional career opportunity matchmakers, we follow up and follow through to help our clients and candidates to reach their career and life goals. We proudly hold the Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval as well.