Position Type: Substitute - Support StaffDate Posted: 6/5/2024Location: District-WideDate Available: 08/02/2024 The Lewis Palmer School District located in Monument, CO, is looking for hard-working individuals with a passion to inspire and motivate students. Support Staff Subs play an important role by providing students and staff with continuity in their daily schedule, whether working long-term or day-to-day assignments. The pay rate for Sub Support Staff is $17.50 and hour. *Support Applicants hired into the Substitute Support Staff role are not required but are encouraged to explore working in all three support staff categories. The individual in this position has the flexibility to select which role suits their needs each day, based on what is available in the district. A Sub Staff Support position is divided into three categories: --Substitute Paraprofessional Support --Substitute Clerical Support --Substitute MonitorGeneral Duties:
- Displays a positive attitude with colleagues and students
- Enjoys working with children
- Treats colleagues and children with respect
- Maintains confidentiality
- Works as a team player
Duties specific to Substitute Paraprofessional :
- Maintains confidentiality in verbal, written, and electronic communication.
- Refers confidential information to the appropriate person.
- Follows safe practices and adheres to safety standards.
- Assists with classroom management and monitoring of student behavior;
- Prepares classroom materials, projects, demonstrations and visual displays;
- Assists with clerical duties, such as keeping attendance records.
- Works with individual students or small groups of students to reinforce learning of material or skills initially introduced by the teacher.
- Operates and cares for equipment used in the classroom for instructional purposes.
- Distributes and collects workbooks, papers, and other materials for instruction.
- Assists with the supervision of students during emergency drills, assemblies, play periods, and field trips.
- Reads to students, listens to students read, and participates in other forms of oral communication with students.
- Assists students in the library or media center.
- Helps students with their clothing, wash-up, and toilet routines, as necessary.
- Assists with lunch, snack, and cleanup routines, as necessary.
- Adheres and follows work-related health, safety, and emergency procedures and practices.
- Provides instructional support by working individually or in small groups of students with learning, cognitive, emotional, or physical disabilities, to reinforce learning of materials or skills initially introduced and outlined by the Special Education Teacher.
- Provides behavioral support by assisting teachers in maintaining discipline and encouraging acceptable behavior of students.
- Transfers students in and out of holding and on/off buses, vans, etc.
- Facilitates student's use of mobility equipment such as leg braces, walkers, mobile standers, and tricycles.
- Supports teachers on field trips by helping students with physical and behavioral needs, and reinforcing learning situations.
- Uses physical restraint or seclusion in compliance with state and federal law and District policies and procedures in instances where there is danger to the student or other students.
- Responds to the physical and behavioral needs of students in cooperation with the bus driver, during transportation to/from school.
- Performs all other duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
Duties Specific to a Substitute Monitor:
- Attends to the supervision of children at all times including: playground (Dress according to weather), lunchroom, hallways and study halls
- Deals with students concerns in a fair, consistent manner
- Reports any accidents to the school office as soon as practicable
- Informs classroom teachers of accidents, injuries, or illness of students during lunch or recess time (as well as office depending on time and place of injury/illness)
- Aids in cleaning tables, as needed
- Dismisses students in a timely manner
- Perform other job-related tasks as directed by the Supervisor
Duties Specific to a Substitute Clerical Support Staff:
- Operate general office machines
- Operate basic computer functions
- Filing and retrieval
- Ability to follow written and verbal directions
- Plan and put job tasks in priority order
- Exhibit neatness in personal grooming and in maintaining a professional work environment
- Interact with personnel to obtain and provide information usually requiring some interpretation and/or explanation
- Perform receptionist duties, such as receiving visitors, ascertaining the nature of the visitors business, giving appropriate information to visitors and making introductions
- Answering incoming calls, transfer calls, answer inquiries, record and deliver messages, screen calls as directed by the supervisor
- Perform other job-related tasks as directed by the supervisor
Qualifications:
- High School graduate or equivalent
- Prior experience working with children
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships
- Ability to follow directions
- Basic computer knowledge