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Educational Assistant- Level IV Special Education- Multiple positions available

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Primary Responsibilities:

  • Provide support to elementary special education students.
  • Work under the direction of special educators to reinforce instructional strategies, provide behavior support, and assist with personal care in all school environments.
  • Work as a team member to implement IEP based instructional goals and adaptations including assistive technology.
  • Collect student data and third party billing record documentation.
  • Promote inclusion and self sufficiency of students in the school community.

Health Services Coordinator

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POSITION SUMMARY:

The Health Services Coordinator for South Washington County Schools provides leadership and coordination of health care for students who attend both private and public school within the district boundaries.  Provide leadership as the certified public and school health nurse, leading, collaborating, integrating, facilitating and evaluating school health services and programs to provide positive learning outcomes to preschool, school age, and youth through health promotion, disease prevention and health maintenance. To develop and sustain the liaison between the schools, home, and local, state and national health community. Primary responsibilities include training, delegation, monitoring and supervising health care procedures delivered by building nurses. This coordinator is a member of the special services administrative team.

PRIMARY JOB FUNCTIONS:

Coordinate School District Building Nurses, Health Assistants, Paraprofessionals, Clerical Staff, Family School Coordinators

  • Analyze workflow related to effectiveness and efficiency of assessment processes in the school health services program.
  • Coordinates and provides leadership over the operations and health services staff.
  • Coordinates and provides leadership over the operations and health services for Community Education and Out of School Time Services.
  • Recruit, interview and make hiring recommendations for school health services personnel.
  • Direct, monitor school health services staff including development and evaluation of staff improvement plans.
  • Advise and make recommendations to the Director of Special Services regarding Minnesota Nurse Practice Act.
  • Arrange for substitutes. Maintains and manages a substitute nurse pool.
  • Assists nurses in writing Individual Health Plans and/or Section 504 Plans with health services accommodations.
  • Maintains confidentiality of work-related issues and records
  • Member of the Mental Health Lead Team

Organize and Conduct Professional Development

  • Development and training of staff that provide health services, physical & mental health, and other staff that contribute to a student’s overall health status.
  • Development and delivery of orientation for new and substitute Health Services staff.
  • Develop and coordinate quality improvement activities.

Health Policy and Procedure Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

  • Assessment, planning and evaluation of the health services component of the coordinated school health program.
  • Develop, implement, and evaluate school health services policies and procedures to support student learning & delivery of care to students and the practice of nursing.
  • Assure policies and procedures adhere to state and federal legal and regulatory requirements, and ethical standards of nursing practice.
  • Implementation of communicable disease control in the schools, including monitoring, surveillance and participation in disease prevention and outbreak management.
  • Interpret health mandates, recommendations and trends to school personnel.
  • Advocates integration of district vision and policies into action plans.

Provide Consultative Service

  • Provide health related consultation as a member of the specialized education team.
  • Provide consultation and recommendations in the planning and development of accommodation plans for Section 504 eligible students.
  • Serve as health care consultant for school personnel, students and their parents/families.
  • Provide professional health care leadership to administrators and school staff.
  • Interpret health mandates, recommendations and trends to school personnel.
  • Consult and provide input into committees that share responsibility for wellness and health, i.e. health & safety committee, emergency preparedness committee, employee wellness committee, etc.

Community/Agency Liaison

  • Function as the liaison between the school and local health service agencies/providers.
  • Establishes and maintains collaborative relationships with community health partners.
  • Serves on community leadership committees with Washington County as needed.

Health Counseling, Intervention, and Prevention

  • Coordinate the establishment of guidelines, procedures and training in First Aid/CPR for schools and staff.
  • Coordinate and monitor AED programs in the schools
  • Coordinate screening programs and immunization review/follow up for the schools.
  • Coordinate the establishment of guidelines, procedures, and training of blood borne pathogen/Hepatitis B vaccination/Post-Exposure Plan.
  • Coordinate district annual flu vaccination clinic for district staff and their families.

Budget Development and Maintenance

  • Recommends and manages the health services budget. Orders and purchases district health service supplies and equipment.
  • Monitor equipment needed and budget requests from individual buildings, including capital expense.
  • Develop and maintain vendor agreements for supplies and services.

Provide Coordination of Health Data/Technology Support

  • Develop, implement, and evaluate the system for the identification of students with special health care needs.
  • Establishes and monitors pupil health record systems.

Emergency Preparedness

  • Serves as a member of the district emergency management leadership team.
  • Provides recommendations on planning and development of crisis team agendas.
  • Assures policies and procedures for school safety planning.

Specialized Education Third Party Reimbursement

  • Coordinate third party reimbursement for health and mental health related services for all students.
  • Reviews state and federal regulations for third party reimbursement.
  • Participates in third party reimbursement networking meetings with area districts.
  • Assists with the implementation of time studies for SEDRA reporting.
  • Interprets Department of Human Services (DHS) guidelines for school based Personal Care Assistants (PCAs).
  • Oversees training and certification of PCAs.

Other duties as assigned

  • At times may be required to work outside normal business hours and work extended hours to accomplish requirements of this position

Special Education Agency Advocate

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Job Summary: 
Under direction of principal and director of special education, the Agency Advocate provides special education support for students in the area of behavior management in order to help them fulfill their potential for academic, emotional, and social growth through instruction in academic content standards and curriculum designed to meet each student’s individualized goals and objectives.  Applicant will have a four year post secondary related degree.

Responsibilities:
Essential functions of the job may include but are not limited to the following:

Fully understand and ensure the fidelity of the implementation of the developed behavioral plan for identified special education students.
Direct/redirect the work and responsibilities of educational assistants as it relates to implementation of the behavioral intervention plan.
Work with identified student(s) to reinforce motor, academic, social, self-care or communication skills under the direction of the teacher.
Assisting the teacher(s) in devising strategies for reinforcing skills based on understanding of student needs, interests and abilities.
Assume responsibility for learning and adapting to student’s special medical, physical, communicative, and emotional needs.
Assist student with physical disabilities according to their needs, including transferring to and from wheelchairs, lifting, and positioning.
Assist students with physical needs and personal care, including feeding, toileting needs and personal hygiene.
Assist student while in mainstream classes.
Help manage behavior of all students.  This includes intervening in crisis situations and restraining disruptive or dangerous student behavior using Crisis Prevention and Intervention strategies, as needed.
Guide students in working and playing appropriately.
Assist and supervise students throughout the school day, inside and outside the special education classroom.

Part-time Ice Arena Attendant

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Position Type:
Custodial/Maintenance

Location:
Educational Service Center

Closing Date:
Until Filled

General Purpose of Job:  Perform work in the cleaning, maintenance and care of the ice arena.

Responsibilities:  Operating Zamboni to prepare and care for ice
Cleaning restrooms, lobby, bleachers, and other spills as required
Maintaining ice arena grounds including but not limited to shoveling snow, and removing trash debris from yard
Other like or comparables duties as assigned

Job Type:  Part time, Winter only. Approximately October 1, 2024 through March 25, 2025

Bargaining Unit:  Custodial

Salary Range:  $17.91/hr.

Hours may vary based on operational needs. Generally evenings and/or weekends.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Osseo Area School District ISD 279 is an Equal Opportunity, and veteran-friendly employer.

Osseo Area School District ISD 279 ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. Osseo Area School District is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the district and strongly encourages persons to apply who can strengthen our diversity. For more information, view the District’s Equal Opportunity and Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Policy.

Veteran’s Preference: If you are an eligible veteran, please submit a legible copy of your DD214 with your application.

Accommodation: If you have a disability that requires an accommodation during the selection process, please email Human Resources at [email protected] or call 763-391-7007.

Background Check and Drug Screen Process Upon Conditional Offer:

Background checks and/or drug screens are conducted upon receiving a conditional offer. Employees must complete a background check and are responsible for the background fee. A passing background is required.  Criminal convictions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. The District and Department of Transportation (DOT) require passing of drug screenings for positions that require driving applicable district vehicles.

 

Follow these steps to apply and submit an application online by:

Go to www.district279.org/careers
Click “View all job openings”
Choose job category or lookup position on the search bar
Review job description
Click on red “Apply” button top right corner next to JobID
Follow application instructions
When prompted for Referral Source, please select where you first saw Osseo Area Schools career opportunities. (Example: Facebook, LinkedIn, MinnesotaJobs, Handshake, MNASA, etc.)

AESP – Class III-B – Enrollment Center – Administrative Assistant

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Position Type: Administrative Assistant/Clerical/Administrative Assistant

Location: Enrollment Center

Closing Date: 06/03/2024

Job Summary:  Provide secretarial/clerical support to the Enrollment Center.

Responsibilities and tasks include:

Meet and greet customers.
Answer and return phone calls.
Verify and process paperwork for the enrollment of students.
Request records from previous school.
Enter enrollment information in Access and Synergy.
Transfer completed enrollment records to schools.
Provide administrative support in the form of typing, word processing, filing, duplicating materials, faxing, etc.
Responsible for ordering supplies.
Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.
Provide Outstanding customer service.

Minimum qualifications include:

High school diploma or equivalent.
General clerical skills including word processing, updating databases, and experience creating and tracking information using Excel.
Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills and the ability to help, serve, and exchange information.
Willingness to learn and use data management systems.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Highly organized and detail oriented.
Ability to work every workday in August and September (Monday – Friday)
Ability to work collaboratively with Enrollment Center staff and customers.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include:

Extensive secretarial/clerical skills, including MS office software (i.e., MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook), Google applications and database maintenance.
Extensive skills in developing and maintaining record systems.
Knowledge of district policies as they affect the general operation of the building.
Ability to maintain confidentiality of the materials and information disseminated daily.
Ability to work in a fast-paced and rapidly changing work environment.
Ability to communicate effectively with diverse groups.
Ability to carry out job responsibilities independently, possess effective time management and organizational skills.
Knowledge of district policies and procedures.

Preferred qualifications include:

Fluent in Spanish, Hmong, or Vietnamese.
Comfortable working with diverse cultures.
Strong customer service skills and understanding of customer service theory.

Salary:  View salary grid on Page 5, Section 1, and Classification, Pages 6 – 7, Section 3 of the Administrative Education Support Professionals (AESPs) contract
Work schedule: 8 hrs/day, 260/261 days per year
Bargaining unit: Administrative Education Support Professionals (AESPs)

Osseo Area Schools offers:

Meaningful and impactful work
Opportunities to grow professionally
A variety of benefits
Summer opportunities
and more

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Osseo Area School District ISD 279 is an Equal Opportunity, and veteran-friendly employer.

Osseo Area School District ISD 279 ensures equal employment opportunities regardless of race, creed, gender, color, national origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or disability. Osseo Area School District is committed to a workforce that reflects the diversity of the district and strongly encourages persons to apply who can strengthen our diversity. For more information, view the District’s Equal Opportunity and Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment and Violence Policy.

 

Veteran’s Preference: If you are an eligible veteran, please submit a legible copy of your DD214 with your application.

Accommodation: If you have a disability that requires an accommodation during the selection process, please email Human Resources at [email protected] or call 763-391-7007.

Background Check Upon Conditional Offer:

Background checks are conducted upon receiving a conditional offer. Employees must complete a background check and are responsible for the background fee. A passing background is required.  Criminal convictions are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.

Follow these steps to apply and submit an application online by:

Go to www.district279.org/careers
Click “View all job openings”
Choose job category or lookup position on the search bar
Review job description
Click on red “Apply” button top right corner next to JobID
Follow application instructions
When prompted for Referral Source, please select where you first saw Osseo Area Schools career opportunities. (Example: Facebook, LinkedIn, MinnesotaJobs, Handshake, MNASA, etc.)

Employment Specialist

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Actively engage employees during all stages of their employment. Provide administrative assistance to the Executive Director of Human Resources.  Serve as the main point of entry into Human Resources while providing a welcoming and professional environment.