Lunch Aide

Eastpointe Community Schools•Eastpointe, MI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

To actively supervise the students in the cafeteria and playground during the lunchtime period at assigned elementary school. This role involves guiding student behavior, assisting younger children, monitoring safety, and ensuring a smooth and efficient lunchtime experience. The Lunch Aide will work collaboratively with kitchen, custodial, and instructional staff, and will be responsible for determining when student behavior requires intervention and implementing appropriate techniques. The position also requires assisting with cleaning and preparing the lunch area between sessions.

Requirements

Ability to relate to children in a positive but firm manner
Good interpersonal and communication skills with children and adults
Ability to work as a member of a team
Ability to form and maintain appropriate relationships and personal boundaries with children
Emotionally resilient in working with challenging behaviors
Knowledge and understanding of developmental stages of children physically, emotionally, and cognitively
Basic childcare health and safety knowledge
Strong work ethic
Honest
Punctual
Reliable

Responsibilities

Guiding student's toward appropriate behavior while in lunch line
Assisting younger children in getting lunch trays, milk and condiments
Helping children open lunch items
Monitoring student behavior and providing appropriate behavior modification techniques within guidelines of school rules.
Work with students to help them learn appropriate lunchroom etiquette, good manners, and encouraging appropriate, positive intermingling of students
Assisting students in cleaning up after themselves (spills, wiping tables, disposing of trash, etc)
Helping to wash tables, pick up floor trash and ready condiments between lunch sessions and after lunch period.
Monitoring students for safety and appropriate behavior on the playground.
Working with kitchen, custodial and instructional staff to implement ways to make the lunchtime run more smoothly and efficiently
Other duties as assigned assist the staff of the school in getting adequate lunch breaks while providing appropriate school supervision.
Determining when student behavior requires intervention and what appropriate intervention to implement.
Knowing when to refer a problem to supervisor.