ED CAP SIGN LANG INTERPRETER II

Salary Schedule

The purpose of the position is to facilitate communication between students who are Deaf Hard of Hearing (DHH) involved in the educational process through the use of sign language, oral interpreting, real time captioning, and/or other communication resources needed to accommodate DHH students who qualify to receive these services. Employees at this level apply intermediate skills.

Essential Functions

• Responds to internal and external customers in a timely, accurate, courteous and empathetic manner representing OCPS in a positive light.
• Facilitates communication by providing interpreting and or captioning services in the educational setting for deaf and hard of hearing students, staff, and parents.
• Interprets and/or captions all auditory information (including film/video presentations) in a variety of settings including classroom, discipline office, assemblies, counseling, and others as they arise.
• Interprets and/or communicates for students engaged in extracurricular activities as assigned.
• Maintains physical and environmental safety of students during and in the absence of classroom teachers, and reports disciplinary concerns to the classroom teacher.
• Assists teachers by circulating within the classroom, providing interpreting assistance, and tutoring support to DHH students only under direct supervision of a certified teacher.
• Aids in adapting content and lessons to promote participation of deaf or hard of hearing students.
• Researches sign concepts related to class subjects and content and assists in the preparation of instructional materials during non-student contact time or when interpretation is not required.
• Performs support tasks such as copying materials, laminating items, typing correspondence, filing paperwork, preparing classroom bulletin boards, classroom decorations, displays of student activities, and other classroom objectives.
• May be assigned monitoring duties as appropriate to the position, e.g., hallways, lunchroom, restrooms, and bus duty; ensures appropriate student conduct during these periods; escorts students to designated activity areas, e.g., music room, computer room, art classes, assemblies, etc.

Minimum Training And Experience

• High school diploma or GED; supplemented by two (2) years progressively skilled interpreting experience for deaf or hard of hearing students, with demonstrated ability to effectively attend to the needs of deaf or hard of hearing school age children;
• or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment (EIPA) level 3.3, or B.A. in sign language interpreting required.

ADA Compliance

• Physical Ability Tasks involve the ability to exert very moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).
• Hands being used constantly requiring prolonged physical, intricate movement and exertion.
• Sensory Requirements Depending on the functional area of assignment, most tasks require visual perception and discrimination, or most tasks require oral communications ability, and/or most tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate sounds.
• Environmental Factors Tasks are regularly performed without exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, animals/wildlife, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.