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08/23/2019

Job: School Bus Driver
Wages: $12.00-$13.50

Duties
• Transport children to and from school in the mornings and afternoons
• Follow the schedule for pick-up and drop-off
• Enforce bus safety rules
• Maintain a clean and mechanically-sound bus at all times
• Obey all traffic laws
• Perform inspections of the bus before and after each route
• Ensure safety of all students
• Discipline children when required to maintain a safe and healthy environment
• Assist students with getting on and off the bus when required
• Write discipline referrals for students not obeying the rules

Qualifications:
• High school diploma or GED preferred
• CDL license required
• Experienced driving a school bus
• No at-fault traffic accidents in the last 5 years
• Clean driving record (no traffic citations in last 5 years)
• Ability to carry out assigned route on time
• Excellent communication skills
• Experienced working with children preferred

******PLEASE EMAIL COPY OF RESUME TO: [email protected]**

08/20/2019

Position: Paraprofessional

Qualifications:

Paraprofessional license from Illinois State Board of Education Required.

Reports to: Classroom teacher, Building Principal, and/or AMA Administration
Functions: The essential functions of this position include, but are not limited to, the responsibilities and functions specified herein.

Responsibilities:
• Assume responsibility for continued professional growth to fully support educational programming.
• Support and act in accordance with all AMA Governing Board goals, objectives and policies, The School Code of Illinois, and other federal and state laws.
• Assume appropriate roles as adult model and educator.
• Demonstrate knowledge of students’ needs, including but not limited to: educational, medical, physical, sensory, speech/language, social/emotional, recreational, vocational, etc., as established by a multidisciplinary team and implement as needed.
• Maintain strict confidentiality regarding all matters pertaining to students and personnel.
• Demonstrate effective organizational skills, time management, and flexibility in order to meet staff and students’ needs.
• Function as program or classroom instructional assistant but may be assigned as a one-on-one (1:1) instructional assistant.
• Attends work on a regular basis, arrives to school on time; prepared to assist in the classroom.
• Assume other duties and responsibilities as assigned by the program coordinator, and/or classroom teacher.

Performance Responsibilities:

Domain 1: Planning and Preparation
• Check functioning, operate, and report concerns of specialized equipment as trained and directed
• Assist in the preparation of instructional materials (Copy, order, arrange, or gather materials as directed) including visual aids and classroom displays.
• Observe and record data related to student interactions, initiatives, and health needs.
Domain 2: Classroom Environment
• Es**rt, supervise, and assists student to various settings throughout the building including, but not limited to: cafeteria, recess, and general education/special classrooms including arrival and dismissal times.
• Assist students in restrooms (supervise washroom breaks, changing diapers, changing briefs, clothing, or personal hygiene)as needed.
• Facilitate appropriate social interactions amongst students by prompting, modeling, and reinforcing appropriate social behaviors in small group or classroom settings.
• Assist in the follow through of planned behavior plans/interventions and provide reinforcement
• Transfer, lift, or position students, as well as assist students in using wheelchair, stander, or other mobility devices.
• Lifting – employee may be expected to assist in student transfers/lifting up to 40 pounds. Those in excess of 40 pounds will require additional assistance
• Implement special systems/programs following training to assist student with specific diagnoses.

Domain 3: Instruction
• Assist teacher with maintaining inclusive, learner-centered environments.
• Take notes or scribe for students
• Assist student with life-skills based curriculum in school or community.
• Help students implement and self-manage organization skills.
• Help facilitate inclusion of students into general education settings.
• Assist and monitor students in using assistive technology devices

Domain 4: Professional Responsibilities
• Establish a positive rapport with staff, students, and families
• Consult or meet with teachers or other professionals utilizing appropriate channels by engaging in positive solution finding steps to resolve areas of concern and request direction, instruction, or guidance for new or unfamiliar tasks.
• Provide and communicate information in a timely manner about students or equipment.
• Refers questions from families to appropriate channels
• Model appropriate hygiene, appearance, interaction, and actions
• Provide accurate information about students to team members, discussion confidential school issues only with appropriate personnel.
• Be flexible, willing to listen, experiment, and make changes when needed

***Please send resume to [email protected]***

08/20/2019

Job Title: Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) or (LSW) Type 73

Job Description:

Summary/Objective

The part-time social worker reports to the unit manager and is responsible for ensuring that the medically related emotional and social needs of the students are met and maintained on an individual basis in accordance with policies and procedures, and current federal, state and local standards, guidelines, and regulations. Must have ISBE Professional Education License TYPE 73 or LCSW

Essential Functions:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Develops a comprehensive social history and psychosocial assessment that includes the student's problems and strengths and preferences, including cultural, religious, and ethnic background and implications for the care plan.
• Helps students and their families (in their social, racial, ethnic and cultural context) cope with the immediate effects of the decision to move to the facility.
• Orients students and families to the facility, its services, its service limitations and students' rights.
• Involves students and families in care planning, encouraging their attendance at school activities
• Attends scheduled care conferences and identifies and interprets psychosocial needs of students for inclusion in the care plan, addressing in particular issues of schedule, treatment and environment that express and reinforce individuality and identity.
• Completes mandatory documentation within timelines established by applicable regulations.
• Empowers students and encourages student choices in matters affecting them, demonstrating receptive attitudes and sensitivity to choices based on racial, cultural and ethnic heritage, and sexual orientation.
• Mediates issues that arise among students, families and staff.
• Ameliorates emotional distress of students and families.
• Provides linkage with appropriate community resources by maintaining knowledge of other systems, making referrals and identifying unmet needs (e.g., recreational transportation, adaptive phone equipment, etc.)
• Provides students and families with crisis management services.
• Assists students and families with financial questions and makes appropriate referrals.
• Coordinates visits by facility mental health providers and makes resident referrals.
• Coordinates speakers and co-facilitates family council meetings.
• Develops a comprehensive discharge plan in collaboration with students, students' families, multidisciplinary staff, and referral agencies.
• Trains and consults with staff regarding psychosocial needs that encompass social, ethnic, religious and cultural diversity of individual students, the resident group as a whole and families to increase staff sensitivity.

Competencies
• Decision Making.
• Collaboration Skills.
• Results Driven.
• Communication Proficiency.
• Teamwork Orientation.
• Thoroughness.
• Flexibility.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work and Pay
• This is a part-time position @ 2-3 hours a week
• $40.00-$50.00 an hour.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in social work from an accredited school of social work.
• Licensed by the Illinois State Board of Social Work Type 73
Preferred Education and Experience
• Two (2) years of supervised social work experience in a health care setting, working directly with individuals.
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
• Must be able to function independently and have flexibility, personal integrity and the ability to work effectively with students, staff and support agencies.
• Must possess the ability to make independent decisions when circumstances warrant such action.

***Please send resume to [email protected]***

08/20/2019

Job: Custodian

Pay: $10.00- $12.00

Hours: Part-Time

Duties and Responsibilities:

Custodians are responsible for keeping buildings clean and in an orderly condition. Have to perform heavy cleaning duties, such as washing walls and windows, shampooing rugs, cleaning floors, removing rubbish and performing routine maintenance activities. Custodians also have to notify management of repairs needed, tend to furnaces and boilers, clean snow and other debris from sidewalks. Other responsibilities include mowing and trimming lawns, along with the use of power tools.

The duties required of a custodian include replenishing stock in restrooms, cleaning restrooms, gathering and emptying trash, sweeping, mopping, vacuuming, monitoring building safety and security, and dusting. Keeping the school as clean and tidy as possible is the overall responsibility of a custodian. Custodian should be prepared to do things like moving heavy furniture to reach corners, cracks and crevices of covered parts of the room. Custodian may have to clean laboratory equipment, such as computers and tables.

***Please send resume to [email protected]***

08/20/2019

Position: LBS1
Grades K-8th
Full -Time

Must have ISBE Special Education Certification LBS1

-Create and execute individual education plans for each of the students in your care
-Communicate with other staff and family members about each student’s progress and struggles
-Prepare detailed lesson plans at least three months in advance and submit them to administrators for approval
-Participate in IEP (individual education plan) meetings as scheduled by the school
-Use individualized reinforcement techniques to keep each student on the path toward greatness
-Invite family members to participate in each student’s educational progress
-Create and distribute progress reports quarterly
-Confer with on-site and off-site therapist over disciplinary and behavioral issues with students
-Create a safe, productive classroom environment
-Use supplementary educational technology program
-Familiar with CPI training

***Please send resume to [email protected]***

08/20/2019

Position: Cook

Certificate: Maintain a ServSafe Certificate ( food services sanitation certificate)

1) Prepares soups, meats, vegetables, salads, dressings, and desserts for consumption in school cafeteria, utilizing cafeteria equipment and cooking experience.

2) Specializes in providing lightly seasoned, nutritionally adequate, and varied diet.

3) Inspects equipment for cleanliness and functional operation.

4) Work is usually performed with other workers.

5) May plan menus, order food supplies, and receive supplies delivered.

***Please send resume to [email protected]***

02/28/2019

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