Transportation Specialist Para Educator

DONNA D. ZAREMBSKI

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Loves Park, IL 61111

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EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION

OSF St. Anthony Hospital/Rockford, IL

Currently performing as a PRN Health Unit Coordinator for all hospital units. Secretarial responsibilities include the coordination of nursing and CNA daily assignments. Rounding on patients as the Patient Care Liaison to bridge the gap between the nursing/CNA staff and patient needs. Typing, answering of OSF phones, patient call-lights, scanning of all confidential patient health records; maintain all confidential patient files; responsible for ordering/stocking of unit hospital/nursing supplies for the floor and patients; faxing, copying HIPPA protected patient documentation to and from doctors’ offices, rehabilitation facilities and nursing facilities; coordinates hospital needs/information between OSF and patient family members via phone, written and verbal instruction. Responsible for the organization and completion of OSF Patient Handbooks; request discharge/transport orders for OR, CT, Ultrasound, NICU, CCC, etc.; participates in the FloatPool to cover other Health Unit Coordinators when absent. Maintains current medical Healthstreams when assigned. Participates in monthly team building meetings. Usage of EPIC, API, Unit Manager, Microsoft, Excel, OSF Hospital Portal software systems.

Harlem Consolidated School District 122/Machesney Park, IL

Worked as the Transportation Secretary for the Department. Responsible for the processing/ calculating confidential Daily Attendance Records; maintained data for Request for Personal Days off for employees. Processed Purchase Order Requisitions for Depart. Invoices; responsible for the confidential New Hire Applicant Interview process for the Director of Transportation; Receives/ complies data for yearly Bus Referral reports for District; Attends monthly COS meetings; Creates, updates and distributes Department forms; maintains/orders Department supplies; Compilation of data and reporting for State Reimbursement for Medicaid Busing; performs back-up Dispatch responsibilities; monitoring radio and dispatching calls as necessary; acts as back-up Secretary for the Director when necessary; aides the Transportation Specialist in updating of student information when received; printing of routes for drivers; handles incoming calls/request from parents, schools, administration; daily utilization of Skyward, IEPoint, Versa Trans, Munis, etc.; filing, typing, sorting/delivering of mail; and any other Department request as assigned.

Full-time work as an Individual Para Educator assisting teachers with daily instructional needs for students who require academic modification work for IEP requirements. Maintaining communication updates with parents (verbally and written); implementing necessary learning strategies to aide students in development for their general classroom studies; generate individual Incident Reports for students with behavioral issues; filing, copying, preparing, checking, etc. confidential classroom documentation for teacher, supervising students during recess and detention procedures, supervising students during door-duty assignment (before and after school) as necessary. Participation in School Improvement assignments, completion of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention (CPI) training through District, Certification of Participation workshops in Response to Intervention and Instructional Strategies: Writing; and all other tasks assigned by supervisors.

2014- Present

2007 - 2014

Sargent & Lundy Engineers/Chicago, IL: Electrical Dept. Division Supervisor, sustained appropriate secretarial staffing to engineering ratios; developed, submitted and maintained proposals for secretarial billable man-hour budgets for all fossil-related client projects; the hiring and firing of staff personnel; verbal and written employee performance evaluations; implemented employee salary increases in conjunction with Division Head; verified daily attendance; trained new employees on all word processing and secretarial procedures; approved all staff vacation, illness/miscellaneous and overtime hours; supplied backup secretarial and supervisory support to other client projects as required; performed any assigned tasks required by Division Head.

1984 - 1992

Rock Valley College/Rockford, IL; State/NCLB ParaPro Assessment Program

Rock Valley College/Rockford, IL; Certified Nursing Assistant Program

Grad 2007

Grad 2005

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