Homebound Instructor - Temporary Work Assignment (TWA) 2024-2025

General Description

Responsible for instructing students who have been approved for homebound/home-based services.

Essential Job Functions

Essential Job Functions:

• Provide homebound and/or home-based instruction for students who are approved for homebound or home-based services. Instruction will be in the home/community setting or one of the homebound labs.
• Maintain contact with school staff to implement student's academic plan
• Collaborate with school-based teachers or supervisor regarding student instruction, delivery of lessons, materials, etc
• Maintain weekly documentation, daily records and accurate documentation of hours of instruction and travel for each assigned student and submit as required.
• Collaborate with the school and teachers regarding graded assignments to ensure assignments are received and returned by the end of the grading period.
• Proctor school-based, district-wide, and state assessments as necessary.
• Communicate parent/student contacts with school and/or supervisor to include interruptions in homebound/home-based instructional services..
• Participate in homebound and instructional professional development

Report Preparation:
Teacher will prepare weekly student documentation that records work completion, attendance and behavior

Equipment Operation :
Operates personal computer and software related to student instruction, operates any assistive technology devices for communication with students

Contacts:
Teacher will be in communication with school staff for assigned students and with the homebound staff.

Work Direction/Supervision:
Teacher will supervise only the individual homebound student that the teacher is assigned. Teacher is not responsible for grading, assessment, and report cards.

Decision Making :
Teacher will be able to make limited decisions regarding student instruction in conjunction with student's home school personnel.

Physical Demands :
Must have the ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time; to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids; hear, understand speech and speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly at normal levels indoors and on the telephone. Physical agility to bend, stoop, sit on the floor, climb stairs, get in and out of vehicles, and walk.
Requirements

Must hold a valid Virginia Teaching license

Should have a broad background of professional learning, experience, and be able to adjust to a variety of home situations

In addition to the on-line application, applicants who are not current CCPS teachers are required to submit:

Transcripts

Both undergraduate and graduate transcripts must be submitted. Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.

References

Applicants must submit two (2) references as a part of their application package. Applicants with zero years teaching experience should submit references from their cooperating teacher and university supervisor. Applicants with recent teaching experience must provide references from principals and/or superintendents from all contracted teaching experiences within the past three (3) years. If experience is not within the past three (3) years, references from the last contracted work experience should be provided. Applicants without direct classroom teaching experience should submit (2) references from the current employer, including one supervisory reference.

Copy of Teaching license

*Please note: Attachments must be uploaded to each application for which you apply, they do not merge from applications you have already submitted to your new application.

Applicants considered for employment must successfully complete the following background investigations/tests:

• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Criminal History Investigation
• State Police Criminal History Investigation
• Child Protective Services (CPS) Investigation
• Tuberculosis Screening/Test

Chesterfield County Public Schools assures Equal Employment Opportunities for employees as required by Federal and State Orders and Laws. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential tasks. This job description is intended to accurately reflect the position activities and requirements. However, administration reserves the right to modify, add, or remove duties and assign other duties as necessary. It is not intended to be and should not be construed as an all-inclusive list of all the responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position and does not imply an employment contract.

Not Applicable

01

Have you ever been convicted of a felony?

• Yes
• No

02

Have you ever been convicted of an offense involving the sexual molestation, physical or sexual abuse or rape of anyone?

• Yes
• No

03

Have you ever been the subject of a founded case of child abuse and/or neglect?

• Yes
• No

Required Question

Agency Chesterfield County Public Schools

Address P.O. Box 10

Chesterfield, Virginia, 23832

Phone +1 (804) 748-1405

Website http://oneccps.org