Job Coach Special Education; SY

Job Coach For Special Education

In keeping with a tradition of excellence, the purpose of the Job Coach for Special Education is to assist the Special Education teacher in preparing students aged 18-21 in transitioning out of high school by arming them with functional tools in the areas of domestic, vocational, community, leisure and recreation, and social skills.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Duties and responsibilities include:

• Assist in developing effective job coaching and employment plans for students with disabilities
• Assist in communicating with students to understand their goals and ambitions
• Assist students to discover and overcome their personal barriers and set goals
• Assist in assessing the strengths of students and teach them to use them effectively
• Guide students in learning to complete job tasks
• Help in the development of motivation and skills
• Assist in providing coaching in effective job search techniques
• Assist students with disabilities in developing social and life skills
• Advise workplace accommodations for students with disabilities
• Assist in monitoring and evaluating the progress of students
• Assist special education teacher in identifying local businesses where job training/coaching is a possibility
• Follow up with local businesses who are already hiring students with disabilities
• Lead and attend staff meetings/trainings as applicable; serve on staff committees
• Assume responsibility for own professional growth and development, for keeping current with literature, new research findings, for attending appropriate professional meetings and conferences, and to maintain any credits and/or continued education for maintenance of licensure/qualifications required for the position
• Maintain and accept responsibility for any district owned fixed asset item assigned to employee and ensure appropriate use by following district policies for acceptable use
• Undergo periodic evaluations according to state and board policy procedures
• Maintain confidentiality
• Perform such other and not specifically enumerated duties as may be requested by the Board of Education, superintendent, administrator, director or established by district policy

Qualifications include:

• Minimum high school diploma with one of the following:
  Associates degree from an accredited college or university OR Forty-eight (48) college hours from an accredited college or university OR Work Keys Test in Reading, Business Writing, and Math with passing score
• A CDL is required

Physical demands include:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, use hands for fine manipulation, handle or feel and reach with hands and arms using equipment such as a keyboard and video display terminal. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, reach, crouch or crawl.
  
  The employee must regularly lift and move up to 35 pounds and occasionally up to 75 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

The work environment is not a standard office setting; but rather encompasses the entire active school campus both inside and outside the facilities. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate and occasionally high.