Lunch Room Aide (Monroe ES)- Colorado Springs School District 11

Lunchroom Aid (Temporary Worker)

This is an important part-time position involving the responsibility for ensuring that students have a safe, orderly and supportive environment in which to eat their meals. Responsibilities include monitoring student behavior during meal service, and assisting with the cleanliness of the cafeteria, recycling, and the flow of meal service. Work is performed under the general supervision of the Principal with consultation from the Food and Nutrition Services Department.

Essential Job Functions

• Lead students in an orderly fashion to and from the lunchroom as needed
• Assist students with lining up to receive their lunches
• Help students open items on their trays or in their lunch bag/box
• Enforce lunchroom rules
• Keep students on task in the lunchroom by enforcing rules, disciplining students as needed, maintaining a safe and orderly lunchroom environment and encouraging them to eat their meals
• Dismiss students from the lunchroom
• Wipe down tables after meals
• Assist with organizing and implementing indoor activities for students during inclement weather
• Monitor student behavior and maintain communications with the Principal as required
• Understand and follow the District's policies and procedures regarding supervision, discipline and other relevant matters
• Establish and maintain positive interpersonal relations skills as applied to contacts with parents and District staff
• Is self-directed, and works without direct supervision
• Is dependable in reporting to work

Other Duties

• Performs related duties as assigned

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing
• Ability to work cooperatively with others
• Ability to interact positively with students, parents, and personnel
• Ability to successfully work with and serve a diverse local community
• Ability to identify and resolve safety and disciplinary issues
• Ability to maintain alertness and concentration

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent required
• Experience working with elementary students in a school environment preferred

Working Conditions

While the work is typically performed indoors, the employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Physical Demands

The work is mostly walking and standing with periods of sitting. Typical positions require workers to lift and carry up to 20 pounds; climb stairs, ladders or scaffolding; bend and crouch; reach, hold, grasp and turn objects; use fingers to operate computer or typewriter keyboards; feel the shape, size and temperature of objects; and physically restrain students. The work requires the ability to speak normally, to use normal or aided vision and hearing, and to detect odors

Equal Employment Opportunity

School District 11 is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination in relation to disability, need for special education services (whether actual or perceived), race, creed, color, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, religion, ancestry, age, genetic information, or protected activity in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups. Any harassment/discrimination of students and/or staff, based on the aforementioned protected areas, will not be tolerated and must be brought to the immediate attention of the school principal, D11 administrator/supervisor or D11 nondiscrimination compliance/grievance coordinator.

The following Board policies address nondiscrimination in District 11: AC, AC-R, GBA, GBAA, JBB, JBB-R