1 general conditions of employment - Department of Education and ...

1 GENERAL CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENTmaintaining inventories.• Servicing school committees including processing and distribution ofminutes.4. Teacher and Student Support• Preparing and maintaining learning environments and materialsincluding:- maintaining equipment, learning material and resources at asuitable standard; and- maintaining work areas in a clean and tidy state.• Caring for and comforting sick or distressed students.• Administering first aid subject to the school assistant having a currentSt John’ First Aid Certificate or equivalent and receiving the first aidallowance.• Using computerised library systems for accessioning, ordering,invoicing, monitoring of expenditure, cataloguing, data input andretrieval.• Assisting teachers in classroom and other activities:- implementation of learning and other programs, under thesupervision of a teacher, including library, physical education, sportand recreation activities;- monitoring (i.e. checking, observing and recording) studentbehaviour when teachers are periodically absent from the schoollibrary;- assisting with the supervision of students in the library duringrecess and lunch breaks;- assisting students with library research;- settling in new students;- helping infant students with toileting, ablution and dressing;- assisting with the organisation of excursions; and- implementation of learning and other programs, under thesupervision of a teacher, in science laboratories.• Within home science areas washing up, spot cleaning of floors, spotcleaning of windows within arms reach whilst standing on the floor,laundering of home science tea towels, aprons etc.• Managing lost property and clothing pools.Handbook for non teaching staff in schools January 2009 Page 1 - 9