Education Aide

Job Description

The Iowa Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is seeking an Education Aide to join the team at the Independence Mental Health Institute (IMHI). This is a full-time position with HHS with strong opportunity for advancement, growth, and development.

The successful candidate for this position primarily performs paraprofessional technical work in the IMHI School for hospital patients as prescribed by an inter-disciplinary treatment team, Educators, or Education Administrator. You will provide support for academic programming, secretarial needs, technology needs, general organizational support, and daily data collection to meet required reporting for DOE/HHS funding. Duties provide support for the school administrator, education staff, and students.

IMHI provides inpatient treatment and acute psychiatric services. If you enjoy helping people with adult, children and family services, health coverage, mental health treatment, disabilities services, and long-term care, then this is a great opportunity to consider.

We Have a Great Total Compensation Package, Including

• Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System (IPERS) (Employee contributes 6.29%/State of Iowa contributes 9.44%)
• Retirement Investors Club (RIC) (Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan) (State of Iowa matches up to $75/month)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance (See below for additional information)
• Vacation Leave (96 hours/year to begin, and increases with years of service)
• Sick Leave (144 hours/year)
• Paid Holidays (9 days/year)
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Life Insurance ($20,000 paid for by the State of Iowa)
• Long-Term Disability Insurance
  
  

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Independence Highlights

IMHI is in Independence, Iowa, a city of approximately 6,000, located in scenic Northeast Iowa. The Wapsipinicon River flows through town offering many recreational opportunities from canoeing to fishing. Independence is a progressive community sporting a newer public library, trails, and Cedar Rock state park which includes a Frank Lloyd Wright home.

Independence is 30 minutes from Waterloo/Cedar Falls home of the UNI Panthers, 45 minutes from Cedar Rapids and 1 hour from Iowa City, home of the Iowa Hawkeyes.

The State of Iowa is an EEO/AA Employer

HHS values those with “lived experience” and encourages adults who were fostered as youth, foster parents, and/or parents who were in the DHS system to apply. Minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veterans are encouraged to apply (Hearing and Speech Impaired – Relay Iowa 1-800-735-2942 TDD).

Our agency uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify .

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Experience equal to one year of full-time work as an aide in a treatment or habilitative program for the intellectually disabled, emotionally disturbed, physically handicapped, or mentally ill or as an aide in an educational or child care setting;

OR

any equivalent combination of the required experience and post high school education may be substituted on the basis that 30 semester hours or equivalent equals one year of experience.

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Additional Qualification Requirements

Designated positions in this job class require applicants to obtain the required Chauffeur's License and endorsements within a period of time as determined by the appointing authority at the time of hire.