Campus Attendant - Middle Schools

La Mesa-Spring Valley School District; La Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 19,000 - 28,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical: VEBA health plan

Dental: Delta Dental

Life: $50,000

Vacation and sick leave

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

La Mesa-Spring Valley School District is seeking a Campus Attendant to monitor playgrounds and lunch areas, organize activities, and support a positive learning environment for middle school students. The role involves enforcing district discipline policies and ensuring safety and cleanliness during school hours.

Applicants should have paid or volunteer experience with children and be able to work Monday through Friday during the August through June schedule, totaling 7 hours per day.

Qualifications

• Paid or volunteer experience working with children.

Responsibilities

• Monitor playground and lunch areas to ensure student safety.
• Organize age-appropriate activities to provide a positive learning environment.
• Enforce school discipline policy and assist in maintaining a clean, safe environment.
• Supervise students in indoor and outdoor settings and transfer them safely to parents or designees.
• Attend meetings and trainings as required.
• Perform related duties as assigned.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Positive reinforcement

Age-appropriate activities

Child development

Diversity awareness

Relationship building

Education

Experience working with children

Job description

Job Summary & Examination Date

#2627-24 (Open)

This recruitment will establish eligibility lists to fill Campus Attendant vacancies at our middle schools.

Under the direction of the school's Principal, monitors the playground and/or lunch area during periods when students are present; organizes and directs age-appropriate activities for school age students; encourages students to observe fundamental courtesies at school; implements school discipline policy and assists in maintaining a clean and safe learning environment for students.

Current vacancy hours are: 7.0 hours/day

Monday - Friday, August through June months only.

Examples of Duties

Essential Duties

• Assists students to organize and find appropriate activities for the purpose of providing a positive learning environment.
• Encourages students to observe fundamental courtesies at school and encourages student development.
• Implements school discipline policy with appropriate follow up to convey and/or receive information required to perform job functions.
• Monitors individual and/or groups of students in a variety of settings and provides a safe and positive learning environment.
• Organizes quiet or active, age appropriate indoor and/or outdoor activities.
• Oversees students moving about the campus; ensures the safety of children and meets the District's requirements.
• Responds to inquiries from a variety of sources and provides information and/or direction to other sources.
• Transfers children directly from/to parents or designee; ensures safety of children and meets the District requirements.

Other Duties

• Attends and participates in meetings, in-service trainings, workshops and conferences.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Paid or volunteer experience working with children.

Knowledge Of

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, and ethnic backgrounds of students.
• Interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy.
• Positive reinforcement techniques.
• Safe and age appropriate activities.
• Stages of child development.

Ability To

• Act as a good role model.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships.
• Gather and/or collate data.
• Maintain discipline with students.
• Operate equipment using defined methods.
• Positive student discipline using appropriate communication skills.
• Problem solve when equipment is limited to moderate.
• Schedule activities.
• Understand and carry out oral and written instructions.
• Use basic, job-related equipment.
• Work with a diversity of individuals.
• Work with data utilizing defined and similar processes.
• Work with others.
• Work with similar types of data.
• Utilize specific, job-related equipment.

Environment

Indoor/outdoor

Physical Demands

• Bending at the waist, kneeling or crouching to assist students.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate standard playground and classroom equipment.
• Hearing and speaking to exchange information.
• Occasional lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling
• Seeing to monitor student activities.
• Sitting or standing for extended periods of time.

Hazards

• Potential contact with body fluids.
• Potential contact with blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases.

Benefits

• Medical: Choice of VEBA (Kaiser or United Health Care)
• Dental: Delta Dental or Delta Care HMO (District-paid for employee only)
• Life: Life ($50,000) and Accidental Death & Dismemberment ($50,000). Also includes MEDEX Travel Assistance (for medical care situations 100 miles from home or international trips up to 90 days; with some exclusions)
• Vacation: (10+); Sick (9.50+ days per year) - vacation/sick accumulation days increase with years of service
• Employee Assistance Program: (at no cost to employee): through San Diego County EAP
• VEBA Optum Health: Employee assistance program * Note: Benefits are subject to change.

Voluntary Plans

• Dependent life insurance coverage
• Disability plans through American Fidelity
• Vision: VSP Vision Care $10.20/monthly paid by employee
• 403(b) Retirement
• MetLaw prepaid legal through Hyatt Legal Plans

In Addition

• Bargaining unit eligible employees may elect to become a CSEA member.
• Employees working 20 hours per week or more are enrolled into the CalPERS retirement system.

Equal Opportunity Statement

The La Mesa-Spring Valley School District is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Board Policy 4030 prohibits unlawful discrimination and/or harassment of district employees and job applicants based on actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, national origin, nationality, ethnic group identification, ethnicity, age, religion, marital or parental status, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics.

Board Policy 4119.11 prohibits sexual harassment of district employees and job applicants.

Complaints alleging unlawful discrimination or sexual harassment may be filed with the Coordinator for Nondiscrimination in Employment, the Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources.

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