Description

Position at IDEA Public Schools

Role Mission: The Health & Safety Monitor provides health and safety support to the campus, with an emphasis on COVID-19 support.

What You'll Do - Accountabilities:

Conduct contact tracing when there is a positive COVID-19 case on campus

• Collect rosters and seating charts and compare attendance records to determine which students were in close contact with the positive case
• Prepare communications to families from templates
• Call families of impacted students and share quarantine recommendations and learning options

Assist in campus COVID testing for students and staff and manage all campus testing reporting and inventory

• Complete campus health & safety reviews using the health & safety checklist
• Communicate areas of strength and weakness from the checklist to campus leaders
• Implement corrective action from the review

Support the campus health aide on non-medical tasks

• Supervising students in the containment room or waiting for treatment in the clinic
• Make reminder calls to parents
• Assist entering immunization records into health database

Support campus Business Clerk to inventory personal protective equipment (PPE) on campus

Assist Health Aide and Regional RN in connecting families with COVID vaccine resources

We look for Team and Family who embody the following values and characteristics:

• Believes and is committed to our mission and being an agent of change: that all students are capable of getting to and through college
• Has demonstrated effective outcomes and results, and wants to be held accountable for them
• Has a propensity for action, willing to make mistakes by doing in order to learn and improve quickly
• Works with urgency and purpose to drive student outcomes
• Thrives in an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment; is comfortable with ambiguity and change
• Seeks and responds well to feedback, which is shared often and freely across all levels of the organization
• Works through silos and forges strong cross-departmental relationships in order to achieve outcomes
• We believe in education as a profession and hold ourselves to high level of conduct, professionalism and behaviors as models for our colleagues and students

What You Bring -- Competencies:

• Attention to detail
• High level organization skills
• Strong customer service skills
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing circumstances
• Proficiency in using Microsoft Office programs including Outlook, Excel, and Word

Qualifications:

• Education: HS Diploma or GED Required
• Experience: At least 1 year of successful experience in a customer service-focused role
• Certified as a Nursing Assistant (CNA) OR a Registered Medical Assistants (RMA) (preferred)
• Current certification in CPR/AED/ First Aid (preferred)
• Certified by the Texas Department of State Health Services to conduct vision, hearing, spinal, and AN screenings (preferred)
• Bilingual - Spanish required

What We Offer

Compensation:

• This role is a temporary and grant-funded position
• Compensation for this role is set at an hourly rate ranging between $13.00 and $14.95.

Other Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive benefits plan, covering the majority of the employee premium for the base medical plan and subsidizing the majority of costs for a spouse/domestic partner and children. Other benefits include dental and vision plans, disability, life insurance, parenting benefits, flexible spending account options, generous vacation time, com-muter benefits, referral bonuses, professional development, and a 403(b) plan. We also offer an inclusive environment where staff are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work every day. IDEA may offer a relocation stipend to defray the cost of moving for this role, if applicable.

To Apply

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About IDEA Public Schools

At IDEA Public Schools, we believe each and every child can go to college. Since 2000, IDEA Public Schools has grown from a small school with 150 students to the fastest-growing network of tuition-free, Pre-K-12 public charter schools in the United States.

IDEA Public Schools boasts national rankings on The Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report's top high schools lists. IDEA serves nearly 75,000 college-bound students in 137 schools across Texas, Southern Louisiana and Florida and is on-track to maintain its legacy of sending 100% of its graduates to college. Be on the lookout for IDEA schools opening near you-with new launches in Jacksonville, FL (2022). Cincinnati, OH (2022), and Arkansas (2023)!

When you choose to work at IDEA, you are part of our IDEA Team and Family. You will work alongside team members who set and reach ambitious goals every day, are excited to continue to grow with IDEA, and work relentlessly to make college for all a reality.

IDEA Public Schools does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, sex or disability, in admission or access to, or treatment of employment in its programs and activities. Any person having inquiries concerning the organization's compliance with the regulations implementing Title VI of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504), or Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), may contact IDEA Human Resources at (956) 377-8000.