Educational Aide

Primary Health Solutions meets people where they are and partners with them on their journey towards wellness. Our vision is to be the destination for servant leaders to provide comprehensive and exceptional care. We value Respect, Innovation, Stewardship, and Excellence.

About the role

This position is under the direct supervision of the South Connection Program Manager. The South Connection Enrichment Program in Oakwood is a consultation and education project providing an enrichment program for elementary school-aged children. The program operates 7AM – 6PM Monday through Friday except for designated closings.

Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, and evaluate activities for elementary school-aged children.
• Supervise students and maintain a safe environment.
• Supervise students being transported to and from schools.
• Prepare and serve breakfast, lunch, and snack daily; perform necessary clean-up.
• Drive students in Oakwood vans for field trips.
• Encourage appropriate use and storage of equipment/supplies.
• Check and secure the building before closing.
• Assist children with toileting issues and other special needs that may arise.
• Perform all other duties and tasks as assigned.

Core Competencies

• Customer Service: Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.
• Communication: Understands and communicates effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, including writing, speaking, reading, listening, and interpersonal skills.
• Dependability: Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
• Quality: Attentive to detail and accuracy, committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root causes of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
• Productivity: Manages a fair workload, volunteers for additional work, prioritizes tasks, develops good work procedures, manages time well, and handles information flow.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or GED.
• Must be able to pass a background check, motor vehicle check, and drug test.
• Specialist: Must have a bachelor’s degree.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Skills

• Ability to gain knowledge of current practice management systems, electronic medical records, Microsoft Word, text paging, Internet, and Intranet.
• Must earn and maintain Basic Life Support (BLS) certification (training available through PHS).

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to finger/handle, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Occasionally required to sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of radiation.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.