About this role
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Demonstrate an ability to work with children in a positive manner
• Have basic knowledge of student special needs, if applicable
• Have excellent relationships with administration, employees, students, parents and the public
• Practice superior work habits: excellent attendance & promptness, highly dependable, adaptable as needed
• Maintain a positive attitude
• Use sound judgment
• Maintain a high level of personal fitness
• Produce an excellent quality and quantity of work
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Duties for All Monitors
• Supervise students in the assigned area
• Maintain a safe and orderly setting for students
• Make students aware of the rules and positive and negative consequences
• Intervene in aggressive situations and other misbehavior (warn, isolate, inform principal, write office and discipline referrals)
• Notify office personnel immediately of any emergency (unsafe situations, stranger, stray animal, runaway student, etc)
• Notify office immediately of unauthorized persons in building or on grounds
• Prevent children from meeting or leaving with any person who does not have proper authorization obtained from the school office
• Refer students to the office when necessary (serious misbehavior, illness, injury requiring first aid)
• Maintain contact as needed with other staff members
• Reinforce good personal and social habits
• Demonstrate positive interpersonal relationships with students
• Perform other duties as directed by the administrator
• Specific Duties for Bus Monitors
• Supervise students in designated areas for arrival of buses
• Supervise the safe loading and unloading of buses and account for all riders
• Assist in seeing that students board the assigned bus
• Specific Duties of Cafeteria Monitors
• Circulate through cafeteria to maintain appropriate student behavior
• Assist the cafeteria staff in keeping the cafeteria clean and orderly
• Monitor students entering and exiting the cafeteria and students waiting in line
• Assist students having problems with food items and assist students with other expressed needs
• Encourage students to take responsibility for picking up papers and other debris in their area
• Do not allow food to be taken from the cafeteria
• Specific Duties for Playground Monitors
• Check out and check in playground equipment
• Ensure that students do not leave the perimeters of the playground
• Keep children indoors during inclement weather or if the temperature is below 15 degrees
• Dismiss students according to building procedures
• Circulate around the designated playground
• Supervise students in assigned rooms during indoor recess
• Specific Duties of Campus Monitors
• Supervise student behavior throughout the building and grounds, including parking lots
• Assist in following the procedures for ticketing and towing unauthorized vehicles
• Assist in supervising building grounds to detect violators of the non-smoking policy
• Respond appropriately to crisis situations through use of sound judgment
• Performs other duties necessary to the position as assigned by his/her Supervisor or Administrator
ESSENTIAL PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
• Must be able to lift, push or pull objects up to 40-60 pounds on a regular and repetitive basis and lift, push or pull objects on an occasional basis of 100 or more pounds.
• Must be able to speak, hear, see, write, walk, climb, stand, stoop, kneel, bend, twist, turn, push, pull and reach (above head and below knees) on a regular and repetitive basis.
• Tasks require extensive use of hands including repetitive gripping, grasping, lifting and manipulation of equipment necessary to perform duties