Transition Services Job Coach

About the role

Monitor, support, and assist students with a variety of disabilities by supporting appropriate vocational and community activities for students as developed by the IEP teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vocational tasks at job training sites.
• Provide job coaching and follow-up support.
• Absorb and instruct effective vocational, interpersonal, consumer, mobility, domestic and safety skills.
• Support students in demonstrating positive living skills by analyzing tasks, providing appropriate cues and opportunities for problem-solving, providing consistent behavior management intervention and planning for supervision of student activity.
• Provide mobility training so that the student can access public facilities and public transportation.
• Provide training and guidance within the guidelines established by each student's Individual Education and Transition plans.
• Maintain student behavior, student safety, and communicate vehicle concerns to school district transportation.
• Collect data and complete data collection forms and narrative reports on students' progress and needs.
• Work with special education staff to create and/or enhance student learning opportunities and develop their Individual Education and Transition plans.
• Assist with student health care, including one or more of the following: administering first aid to ill or injured children; caring for bathroom needs; dispensing medication; assisting with medical needs; executing health care directives related to tube feeding and other specific medical/health needs, monitoring diabetes, other health related situations; lifting and positioning students in wheelchairs, walkers, etc., escorting, feeding, maintaining health records, health care plans, logs, reports, required documentation; and ordering and stocking medical/health supplies.
• Perform clerical duties, including, typing, data entry, filing and mailing.
• Assist students with alternative communication systems and/or adaptive equipment and technology.
• Provide training and education to community members, employers, and coworkers to support the use of the alternative communication systems and/or adaptive equipment.
• May attend appropriate in-service trainings, transition program meetings or functions, community activities, assist in the office answering phones, filing documents, assisting parents and teachers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• AA Degree or pass District Assessment.
• May require training on specialized computer programs.
• Bilingual preferred.
• Experience: 0-2 years' experience working with students in an educational setting. May require experience in health care; working with children with various learning and physical disabilities; or working on/with networks, network management, and/or integrated learning and application.

Qualifications

• Basic English, grammar, spelling, writing, word processing, keyboarding, basic microcomputer skills, communication, and/or foreign language.
• Operating knowledge of audiometer, vision screeners, charts, scales, blood pressure cuffs, and stethoscope, or word processing, database, and spreadsheet computer software, MS-DOS and Windows operating systems, and networks.
• Operating knowledge of general office equipment preferred.

Skills, Knowledge, & Equipment

• First Aid, CPR, and CPI certifications may be required.
• Valid Colorado driver's license.
• A copy of an individual Motor Vehicle Record must be submitted at time of application.
• Pass the school district Non-CDL Small Vehicle Route operator's licenses required within 30 days after entering position.

Supervisory/Technical Responsibility

This job has no supervisory responsibilities. May be required to act as a resource for supervising teacher, students, parents, administration, and/or staff.

Diversity of Duties

• Cross training in one or more of the following: office equipment, basic health care, student management, special education, bilingual skills, computer technology, and/or basic instructional skills.
• Duties and actions impact individuals within the immediate work unit or assigned building.