Transition Services Job Coach

Equal Opportunity Employer

Mapleton Public Schools, Adams County District #1 does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, marital status, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its educational programs or activities. Inquiries may be referred to the Deputy Superintendent of Human Resources, 7350 Broadway, Denver, CO 80221.

, or the US Dept. of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 1961 Stout Street, Denver, CO 80204.

Position is for the  school year

Transition Services Job Coach

District

C4-1, $23.73 - $35.31 per hour

181 Days, 7 Hours per day

Non-Exempt

Executive Director of Integrated Services, Designee or School Director

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. Specific duties include modeling and supporting students on effective occupational, interpersonal, consumer, mobility, domestic and safety skills; implementing vocational placements: providing job coaching and transportation; collecting data; assisting students with alternative communication systems and/or adaptive equipment/technology;

monitoring health and personal needs; performing clerical duties; and acting as a liaison between vocational placements and IEP teams.

• Coordinate vocational tasks at job training sites. Provide job coaching and follow‑up support. Assist employers with supporting student's rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Model 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.
• Responsible for the safe and expedient transportation of students, including transporting to scheduled recreational, vocational, community settings. Monitoring student behavior, student safety, communicating vehicle concerns to school district transportation, aid in loading and unloading process of students including using proper procedures for loading, securing, and unloading wheelchairs.
• 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.

AA Degree or pass District Assessment. May require…