Cafeteria Monitor

Position Title:

Cafeteria Monitor

Reports To:

Building Principal

Job Objectives

Responsible for monitoring and assisting students during lunch periods.

Minimum Qualifications

• Documented evidence of a clear criminal record.
• Meets all mandated health requirements (e.g., a negative tuberculosis test, etc.).
• Experience working with school-age children preferred.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions: The following duties are representative of performance expectations. A reasonable qualification can be made to enable a qualified individual with a disability to perform essential functions.

• Ensures students find their seats in the lunchroom.
• Monitors student behavior by circulating and interacting with students during meals, encouraging them to wait in line in an orderly fashion, to focus on eating and not talking, to pick up their trash, and to leave the cafeteria in an orderly manner.
• Monitors students as they use trash cans.
• Cleans tables, chairs, and floors where students have eaten as needed.

Other Duties and Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Abilities required: The following aptitudes and physical skills are essential for the successful performance of assigned duties.

• Demonstrates professionalism and maintains a positive work attitude.
• Skillfully manages individual, group, and organizational interactions.
• Communicates effectively using verbal, nonverbal, and writing skills.
• Organizes tasks and manages time effectively.
• Averts problem situations and intervenes to resolve conflicts.
• Lifts, carries, and/or moves instructional supplies and equipment.
• Performs activities that may require reaching, crouching, and/or kneeling.
• Uses self-control, perseverance, and physical skills to manage students.
• Maintains an acceptable attendance record and is punctual.

(Additional) Working Conditions: Exposure to the following situations may range from remote to frequent, depending on circumstances and factors that are not predictable.

• Potential for exposure to blood-borne pathogens and communicable diseases.
• Potential for interaction with disruptive and/or unruly individuals.
• Exposure to adverse weather conditions and seasonal temperature extremes.
• Duties may require operating and/or riding in a vehicle.
• Duties may require detailed paperwork.
• Duties may require working under time constraints to meet deadlines.
• Occasional exposure to loud noises.
• Regular requirements to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, see, read, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop.
• Occasional requirement to lift, carry, push, and pull various items up to a maximum of 50 pounds.

Supervisory Responsibilities

None.

Performance Evaluations

Job performance is evaluated according to the policy provisions adopted by the Fostoria City School District Board of Education.